[A lot of this is going to sound hackneyed and childish. There is language that some might regret reading. Go away.] Whether working for two years before doing an MTech was a good idea is still somewhat an open question. Well, there are a lot of questions there, but one thing I got was perspective. [...]
Home again. End-sem vacations end in less than a week. Was a much-needed break — the previous semester got very stressful towards the end. Exams were okay. Got very bored towards the end of the last, and left it a little incomplete. [shrug] Thesis topic should be finalised before the year is through. Will update [...]
… to be in a conversation where both the people are speaking the same language and completely failing to communicate (exacerbated somewhat by the fact that this is a problem in Randomized Algorithms and the exam is approaching with silent menace). Majorly unprepared (all my own doing). Little news otherwise. Much frenzy for a month [...]
Here I go, turn the page. In a surprising turn of events I watched Lage Raho Munna Bhai today. It was funny in bits, but basically the second in the line of pedantic, preachy Hindi movies I’ve watched (the previous being Rang De Basanti). It’s quite hilarious, how all the people who watch these movies [...]
Academic life is hectic. I’m not cut out for a PhD. One great swatch of ze life is cut through right there. Someone down the hall takes it to his head to play NIN’s “Fuck You Like An Animal” really loud every once in a while. Most puzzling. I need sleep. So what is “That [...]
Classes progress. Couple of systems courses (Program Optimisation on Multicore Architectures and Storage Computing Architectures), and a couple theory-based (Randomized Algorithms and Data Streaming). The Mathematics is just killing me. The two most hated words of any school-going child rise unbidden to the mind — “apply yourself”.
Too long. Got here (== UP) a couple of weeks ago. Getting monstrously slammed in Math, but studies are interesting, and being done far closer to right than under the aegis of the much venerated bastion of education of which I am but a chipping. Rooms are decent, food is decent (except that I’ve transferred [...]
X: Have you seen The Bridge Over River Kwai? Y: Yes. X: Which parts did you like? Y: It was generally nice. X: Did you like the part where the hero comes in? Y: Ummm…what are you talking about? X: The movie. Y: Oh, I thought you meant the actual bridge. I want, I want!
