{"id":3552,"date":"2025-06-15T08:03:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T02:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/?p=3552"},"modified":"2025-06-16T20:25:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T14:55:22","slug":"poem-by-lakshmi-khetawat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/15\/poem-by-lakshmi-khetawat\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem by Lakshmi Khetawat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One Year Went So Fast<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One year ago, with trembling heart, I came,<br \/>\nConfused, unsure, with fears I couldn&#8217;t name.<br \/>\nFrom school\u2019s warm walls to halls unknown,<br \/>\nI felt so lost, so far from home.<\/p>\n<p>I still recall that heavy first goodbye,<br \/>\nThe teary eyes, the silent why.<br \/>\nA place so new, with faces strange,<br \/>\nI wondered\u2014will <em>anything<\/em> ever change?<\/p>\n<p>The trees of NIIT, they stood so tall,<br \/>\nwitnessing my stumble, rise, and all.<br \/>\nSlowly, gently, they whispered peace,<br \/>\nand in their shade, my doubts did cease.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t like mess food, I won\u2019t lie,<br \/>\nbut don\u2019t know when I stopped asking why.<br \/>\nFrom picky bites to plates wiped clean,<br \/>\neven that became part of my routine.<\/p>\n<p>Then came LPL like a wave so wide,<br \/>\nA real-world dream I feared to ride.<br \/>\nWith eleven strangers, I shared the load,<br \/>\nbut together, we walked the road.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t know how time passed from fear and doubt,<br \/>\nfrom thinking I might never stand out<br \/>\nTo my team winning LPL with pride,<br \/>\nAnd me, \u201cWoman of the Series,\u201d by their side.<\/p>\n<p>Same hands, same mind, same me inside,<br \/>\njust a new stage, with peace as my guide.<\/p>\n<p>And teachers, strangers once, now near,<br \/>\nguiding with warmth, like those I held dear.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t know how the calendar flipped so fast,<br \/>\nand how the mess of thoughts from the past<br \/>\nMelted into purpose, calm and light,<br \/>\nA journey from fear into fearless flight.<\/p>\n<p>From missing home to calling this my own,<br \/>\nfrom feeling lost to how much I\u2019ve grown.<br \/>\nThis place became more than walls and class,<br \/>\nit became a mirror of dreams I\u2019d yet to grasp.<\/p>\n<p>One year went fast, but left its mark,<br \/>\nlit my path when all was dark.<br \/>\nAnd though nostalgia of school and childhood fills my chest,<br \/>\nI know this heart has found its rest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By<\/strong>&#8211; <strong>Lakshmi Khetawat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BTech AI and DS<\/p>\n<p>Batch 2024-28<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Year Went So Fast One year ago, with trembling heart, I came, Confused, unsure, with fears I couldn&#8217;t name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3559,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions\/3559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}