My Cup of Tea

Back in the saddle

All right, after a long six-month gap, finally the moment comes when I write a post here. It feels good.

The last six months have been eventful - and that would probably be an understatement. I chose to go back to academics after a three-year stint with the software industry, and during the very first semester I was churned around by the course work and other activities as if I were in a washing machine tub going at full throttle. But it's been really enjoyable. Still, after the four-week vacation in December it's getting hard to get back and focus on studies again. I guess the first semester trained us to work hard under constant pressure of assignments, quizzes and project work, and as that sort of pressure is not really on as yet in this semester, I'm simply not getting enough motivation to get started. I hope the quizzes coming up in the next week trigger me into it.

The six months have been rich with new experiences for me - living in a hostel for the first time to begin with. Actually before coming here I was away from home for two months anyway - but that stay in Bangalore for company work has its different place - can no way be compared with hostel life. Well, my home being just four hours away and my brother's place less than an hour away from here, I anyway feel close to home - I'd say an ideal combination.

In the autumn semester I hardly got to roam around in this wonderful city of Mumbai - though I've done that quite a few times before - so planning to resurrect that now. I so wanted to go to Marine Drive, Ferry Wharf or the Worli sea face during peak monsoon - but couldn't get a chance this monsoon, so I have that in mind for the next monsoon.

Watched Guru today - see an excellent review by my friend Ramanand - even as Techfest goes on here in IIT. While the exhibitions and events / competitions are good, there's nothing really special to pull me there. Ah yes, I got to attend a lecture via videoconferencing by the one and only John Nash, but that too disappointed me, as he went deep into some paper of his on Game Theory which I'm sure most of us couldn't get head or tail of. Perhaps we were not up to the mark to understand the quality and content of his talk. Let's see if I can attend two more good talks planned tomorrow, by Jayant Narlikar and the "cyborg" fame Kevin Warwick.

posted by Sandeep Limaye @ 1/27/2007 09:28:00 pm