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<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-weight:="" bold="">Shaina NC</span><span style="" font-family:="" arial="">, Fashion designer, On her college and the fond memories associated with it</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-weight:="" bold="">Where did you go to college?</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="">I did my Class XI and XII in Vancouver through a Rotary Scholarship, after which I studied at the St Xaviers College in Mumbai where I did my BA in Political Science.After this I went on to study fashion at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-weight:="" bold="">What were your ambitions then?</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="">I wanted to become a politician at that time. I was very serious about it, but then somewhere down the line it all changed. I had been working in my mother’s clothes store then. It is there that I created a line of clothes which sold like hot cakes.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-weight:="" bold="">Did you bunk a lot?</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="">I might sound boring when I say this, but I was always very academically inclined. I was very serious about studies, especially Political Science. I rarely bunked classes and if I did, it was for a very good reason, like maybe the teacher was really bad. But, for instance, I didn’t miss Nandini Sardesai’s class on Sociology for anything. I absolutely loved it.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-weight:="" bold="">How has college changed now?</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="">A lot has changed since then. These days, I see a lot of youngsters bunking just for the sake of it, just to look cool and hang out with friends or something like that. Also, a lot of students have started smoking and that can prove to be a harmful habit.</span><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-weight:="" bold="">Any particular anecdotes you remember?</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="">Well, I don’t really recollect anything in specific, but I do remember how the presence of Mandira Bedi, Cyrus Broacha and others brought a lot of vibrancy and humour into college. In general, we used to have a great time hanging out together.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-weight:="" bold="">Did you date in college?</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="">Oh yes! In fact, I had a boyfriend when I was 16 years old. Then, at the age of 18, I started seeing this guy who is now my husband. We had the longest courtship for sure. I got married at 23, but it all happened so fast that I don’t even remember how.</span></div> </div>