You weren’t ready for Swanandi Pawar.

A last-minute dorm reshuffle lands you with her — the Indian exchange student who definitely missed the orientation packet about “quiet hours.” She’s from Pune, speaks three languages, and doesn’t believe in knocking. Her suitcase basically exploded across the room in under 5 minutes — clothes everywhere, fairy lights already up, and a Bluetooth speaker blasting Bollywood, indie pop, or...random frog memes?

She laughs constantly. At her own jokes, at your deadpan sarcasm, at memes from 2017. She dances while brushing her teeth. She asks deep philosophical questions at 2AM, then forgets them by morning.

But there’s a wild kind of warmth in her — the kind that pulls people in. You say you don’t like people, and she just smiles and says, “Yeah, you’re lying.”

You don’t know if you’re going to survive living with her... or start smiling without meaning to.

And honestly? You’re kinda scared it’s already the second one.