Music

Well, frankly I really cannot appreciate music as I do not understand it a lot. But, I do like listening to music a lot (a lot means really a lot). So, I thought I should try to learn some instrument. Well, as I am more into Western Music, I thought about learning to play the guitar. Well, I can play a little now, 4 months after deciding to learn it. The thing is that I do not have any teacher as such, and then I just play the songs that I like.

The reason why I am writing this post, is that I came across this website while searching for guitar tabs. This is the most comprehensive website on guitar tabs that I have come across, and has helped me a lot in learning the guitar, so I thought I should mention it in my blog. Check it out:
http://www.fretplay.com/

Compreecation

Well, it is here now, the most boring part of the semester, the end semester exams, or as they are called in my college, “The Comprehensive Exams” (Comprees in short).
There are a few things that I have noticed during the two Compree times that I have had in my college life. The college basically undergoes a very Compreecated Phenomenon which leads to the following things: (this is according to my data collection, if anyone has any other observations, they are free to tell me)

1. Excellent weather conditions, compared to the sad weather we have to face in daily life in Goa.
2. Frequent power cuts, especially after sunset and before sunrise.
3. Clogging of the library… This is one time in the whole semester that the library is occupied by not only couples/to be couples, but also other students.
4. Change of nick names… Every CS server will have someone who was earlier named X, named as X|trying to stop CS.
5. Increase in lighting in the campus… As hardly anyone is sleeping… all people awake in the hope of studying, ending up watching a movie or something…
6. Opt Ins… most people who have opted out of the mess/ are reluctant to come to the mess, suddenly start crowding the mess during comprees.
7. People cannot do regular stuff (That is actually the reason why this post is coming in when I have finished my comprees and am at home)

Growth

Well the topic of this post is a bit wrong. It should rather read as “Absence of Growth”. Well, when I was in school, I remember attending some lecture in Physics that talked about space travel. The thing that I remember from the lecture is that the Professor (I do not recollect his name) had shown us with an example, that how a person’s time frame shifts when he travels in space at high speeds. Well, what essentially happens is that under certain specific conditions, the person actually grows up slower than a person who is staying on the earth. As in, if we have twins and one of them goes for space travel at the age of 20, then when he gets back he will be 25 and his brother 26 (this is just a qualitative argument, not a quantitative one). So basically, travel keeps you younger for longer.

Now, why I am writing this post is because of the activities I have seen recently going on at my Hometown. After completing my schooling, I left my Hometown Pune, to study at BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus. This implies that I have been travelling, right? This is not space travel I agree, but still let us assume that it is. So then, I have been traveling for the past one year (just to and fro) and my friends at home have been stationary. Well, not exactly stationary, but not comparable to my distances. This implies, according to the example at the physics lecture that they should have grown more than me. Now growth includes mental as well as physical. Well, I am not really concerned with the physical growth, I am much interested in the mental part. As in becoming mature, or being more responsible towards life, or in general, stop being children.

So now, the problem arises right here. Now they should have grown mentally more than me. Question is, have they?
Or does the theory invert at low speed travels like mine (around 80 km/hr)?

My first Resume

Only recently the results of the Practice School lists have been declared in the campus for my immediate seniors. Looking at that, I realized that I am wasting two months’ time in life doing nothing during the upcoming summer vacations. So, I had this weird idea of taking up a summer internship during the vacations. Now, for applying anywhere, you need to give them your Resume.

That is where I encountered my first big problem,’How the hell does one write a Resume?’. Fortunately, I have an elder brother who comes in handy in such difficult situations (because all the pages google gave me on the topic were contradicting with each other!). Now, I looked at his CV and then decided that even I should write a similar one. Then after I started, I encountered my second and biggest problem,’I haven’t done anything worthwhile in life’. Well, I did enjoy my almost 19 years in life, but now looking back at it from a different point of view, I just realized that I really have not done a lot of things in life.

When I was a kid (People might be tempted to think that I still am, and I would partially agree, but this is when I was of a small size physically too) , i found my brother once looking at someone’s CV. Back then, he told me ‘Eeshan your CV should look like this, and have even more content’. Now, looking at my CV, I just realized that I never took my brother’s advice seriously.

I am kind of repenting that I did not take his advice seriously, and I guess I will try to improve that document as the years pass. The thing is that I have been so happy doing what I have done in my past life, that half of me doesn’t really care how my CV turns out to be, while the other half is damn serious about it.

Well, on the whole, I guess that Resume of mine got me into a lot of thinking, a lot more than I did in the last 1 year(today is the JEE!). I really should not exercise my minuscule brain over such things or it might just vanish one day! The only way that all this thinking is gonna be ’successful’ is that I get one of those Internships (which is kinda tough). So, lets hope they don’t really see through the whole thing and realize that I’m a person who has not done anything in life except breathe!!!

About Me

Firstly, refer the About page, further details are:

• I am very bad at every single language in this whole world (not the programming ones; with those, I am decent.) So, do not expect this blog to have GRE level english (don’t even expect that it will have high school level english)
• Wherever I have mentioned the string “…”, it means that there is an infinite series of whatever precedes these three dots. If that doesn’t make sense in any particular case, then it just means that I am too bored to type, and that the ending is obvious.
• I am studying at the Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences-Pilani, Goa Campus; doing my engineering in Electrical and Electronics stream (which I will refer to as eee in future posts)
• I am a computer geek (although nobody has honored me by saying that, I call myself a geek) For those wondering why I did not opt for Computer Science as my Stream, well my answer is that my academic credentials were not good enough to get it.
• I am a very boring person to meet and get introduced to.
• This blog is about anything that I feel like writing about, so anyone who finds stuff written over here as objectionable, can write to me at eeshan@bits-goa.ac.in, and I will personally take care that such comments are not paid attention to.
• I am open to criticism, but that does not mean that anything is going to change.
• My two main idols in life are:
  • Albert Einstein (Awesome Hairdo)
  • Kunal Thakar (no reason whatsoever for this one)
  • more will come in further posts
• My favorite one liner is:
  “There are only 10 types of people in this world, only one of them understand binary”