Back in the good old days when i used to write in a diary every other day, i would always make it a point to have an entry for the first of january....well-even if today is not the 1st, it is the 11th (who cares if the number gets repeated! ..lol)..so Happy New Year ( Read more... )

Finally! I am finally done --collecting data, defending my thesis, writing final term papers, grading stacks of undergraduate research reports, packing, unpacking and again repacking as we moved into our new house....phew! its been a long three months--my most hectic semester to date... ofcourse there will be many more equally (if not more) hectic ( Read more... )

Depression...and migration....those two things seem top most in the minds of many of my classmates....lots of talk of moving to Canada, by a few disillusioned folk. Actually, if you think about it, the large majority of the country (especially in the heartlands)probably thinks that world opinion doesn't matter, and war is good so that america can ( Read more... )

Life is hectic once again. Am at the alst stages of my masters thesis-and have less than a month to turn it in so i can graduate(with my masters) this semester. Have got mile long reading lists for my comprehensive exams which i'm supposed to take next summer...so looks like its gonna be a *fun* year ( Read more... )

Whoa! i just checked, and its been over three months since my last post... three months that were both idyllic as well as busy...hmmmm-an oxymoron....well-maybe :)...lets start right at the beginning... the SF trip-which was good, had fun with DGP's grad students...everything was good save for the flight back...a whole day in an aircraft--sheesh-- ( Read more... )

"Basketball is injurious to health"...esp if u are subs...the guy has managed to stretch the ligament on his left thumb....it happened two weeks back...and finally he went to the doc today, and now his left thumb is in a cast-which is supposed to stay on for atleast two weeks.... and if having an injured thumb wasnt enough, he actually tried ( Read more... )

Its that time of the year again...end-sem madness has begun...i can't believe i actually dera-maraoed in my lab till 8.30 pm today (dunno abt other pple-but thats laaaaate by my stds :) )...was finally able to register for fall classes- the other day in a momentary act of insanity, i actually suggested to my supervisor that maybe i can collect data ( Read more... )

It's been quite a while since i wrote... so what have i been upto?...hmm..well-lets see-first i had my midterms (which were right after spring break), and also had my proposal meeting-it went off pretty decently i'd say-my theoretical stuff was fine-my committee members just had more suggestions on how to analyse the data-so am back to SPSS running ( Read more... )

The past few days have brought good news :)...my sis is getting engaged tomorrow in Delhi-and the wedding's most probably going to be this summer-which means i have to go to India after the spring sem-come what may! She sure surprised (shocked -maybe!)all her friends as the announcement was most unexpected for them... If all goes well, she might ( Read more... )

The last couple hours have been pretty productive....have made most of the changes that my prof asked me to make on my thesis proposal draft. I hope to have my proposal meeting in the week after spring break-keeping my fingers n toes crossed that all my comittee members will be free to have the meeting (and dont get into the 'she proposes, we ( Read more... )