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Taking a bite out of the Apple

Author's note: this piece isn't going to be a tech review. I'll be just talking about my experience. For those who know me, I have been an advocate of Android since I started using smartphones, and very naturally so, considering that the system provides multiple features including but not limited to extreme customization, an App Store with more than a million apps, a variety of flavors, and the amazing ecosystem of Google products integrated with a single Google account. However, at the onset of my fifth semester, I started looking for better practices for my life in general, and I stumbled upon the concept of de-Googlization and tried it out. De-Googlization essentially means that you try and separate Google from all factions of your life as much as possible. For instance: I switched to Firefox from Chrome started using DuckDuckGo for most searches disabled Google and Google Chrome apps on my phone to reduce the possibility that I look up something using Google, etc. I am

5:30 AM Thoughts

Author's note: This is really really unfurnished. Please read at your own risk :) I underwent a wisdom teeth removal surgery, and I say teeth because I got two removed. But anyway, that is a story for another time. Now, when I went to sleep, I still couldn't feel anything because of the local anesthesia. For some reason, I didn't feel sleepy, and I thought it would come to bite me back (it did). I woke up at 5 in the morning with a lot of pain (I didn't say agonizing because I experienced agonizing pain yesterday :p) I tried to sleep, but that didn't work out with my mind constantly attending to the pain. So, I decided to sit around for a while, texted a friend (and what a stroke of luck! She was awake), and laid back down. When that didn't work out, I woke my parents up, and asked for a medicine - we were also prepared with an injection since this was expected. Anyway, I took the pill, and now, all I had to do was wait for the medicine to take effect. I got my