The 'Learning' Diaries

I am typing this document on my beloved new MacBook Pro as I was reading the account of some IITB graduate with his PhD at MIT. I have been procrastinating for a long time now almost wasting my summers (did nothing productive) always telling myself that “This time I’ll definitely find an answer to what I like doing or what subject I like studying by surfing the internet and self-introspection.” I have literally no clue what to do next after having spent three wonderful days in Jaipur as my vacation approaches an end. What I want in the third semester for myself is to be non-competitive. What I exactly mean by this is that I don't want to waste my time comparing myself to others and poking my nose over what everybody else is doing. I just want to remain busy with myself, constantly improving and trying to hit to the next level of expertise in any field as long as I enjoy doing that work. I just want to f ucking forget about my performance in the second semester as that never lets...

Hello World. I know I am posting after so long but the second semester was a busy semester (we had 39 credits to complete and had two Department Introductory Courses (DIC) whereas the students of the other departments had to take only one DIC in this spring semester). A lot has changed since my last post. I've become more responsible, mature and efficient all thanks to the hectic routine we had this semester. On some days we had classes from 8:30 to 12:30 in the morning , then labs from 2 to 5; then NSS/NSO/NCC from 5:30 to 7 approximately (this time varied from activity to activity) and a CS lab again from 8:30 to 10:30. For some students who were a part of 'Advitiy' (the Student Satellite Programme, successor to 'Pratham'), they had their team meet from 10:30 to anytime after that, and then again classes from 8:30 the next morning (not that we used to sleep early :P ). I was still an 'innocent' freshie at the start of the second semester and was not u...