Weekends!!

How to spend weekends!

Before the term starts

1. Sleep till 12:00pm
2. Call up friends and family and chat for hours
3. Clean up the house
4. Do laundry
5. Watch HBO movies
6. Cook nice food
7. Chill out
8. Watch Hindi DVD's
9. Play cricket with roommates with a makeshift bat
10. Chat and mail
12. Write blocs
13. Sleep again in the afternoon
14. Hang out with buddies in the evening
15. Listen to music
16. click pictures of Philly

After the term starts

1. Do all the above
2. Study
3. Work in the lab.
4. Go to college
as midterms come closer most of the things in the first list have to be skipped : (. When will this term end?. Long time go. So back to research and studies.

first pay check

Here it comes. my first pay check in dollars! cool aint it! thats my ultimate dream, earn lotsa dollars and become rich. Well these are the first few hundreds which will go on and become a few millions : ). It sure feels nice to hear the rustle of a few crisp greenbacks. let me go and have a nice meal in a long time. enjoy

unpredictable weather

drat!!! its raining,again!!. damn this weather. These weather ppl in USA.Dont they ever get their predictions wrong. unlike in India. They predict. I'll quote in hindi " garaj ke saath cheete padenge!". Warning!! fishermen are warned not to venture out in the sea. stormy weather". when you get up in the morning you have nice sunny weather and a perfect day for picnic ; ). In philadelphia the weather changes so dramatically and that too within a day. Mornings are nice and sunny and when you get ready to go back home its chilly, raining and windy. Then you remember that you forgot your windcheater. damn this unpredictable weather. now the first thing I check before i leave for school is the weather channel and prepare accordingly. unpredictable it maybe but thats what life is all about. face the challenges. be ready to change. because thats the only thing which is permanent. well time to leave. before that let me check the weather.

AntiThesis

A Prof. at the School of BioMedical Engineering, Drexel University said this

"University of Pennsylvania is smaller than Drexel"......lol....lol.....ROFTL

UPenn an ivy league university is compared to Drexel University....lol..lol

ok on more serious thoughts Drexel ECE program research is considered superior to UPenn : ).....kuch toh achha hain Drexel ke baare main : )

Tutoring

I was very happy when I got a second job to make up full 20 hours of on-campus job. Today was the first day of my tutoring. A student had scheduled an appointment with me at 3:00pm for an understanding of some concepts from electromagnetics. Well I reached at 2:00pm after lunch at the learning center waiting for my student. I was using my free time to check mails and there walks in a student to get some help. As I was the only tutor around I had to volunteer to help him out and it turned out he wanted some help in calculus. I was like "Oh my god!!".First day. I didnt want to mess up and I had calculus in my high school.....6 long years past....It was as bad as it could get....the students name was Bill...chinese and he too was talking calculus after 6 long year...he had 4 problems to be solved. I sat with him for one hour and solved each and every problem and I was astonished when I saw that I had solved all the problems...the student was so happy and I gave him some more tips so that calculus is simpler for him....I guess I could tutor any subject I had in my undergraduate and its not so bad.....the best thing is the expression of the students when they understand the topics.....so back to tutoring again....I have another appointment scheduled for Electric Circuits!!!!......I again start with

Free Lunch

I was always had the opinion that there is no such thing as a "free lunch".....and thats what they teach in corporate management training sessions. But I guess I would have to change my opinion especially after I came to USA and joined Drexel University...I have been having a free lunch every alternate day......either a pizza or a pretzel, sometimes cakes, sometimes cookies but there has been a free luch atleast twice a week since college started....and I believe there will be many more free lunches like the one i had yesterday...it was a party for all the TA's of the Physics Department.....so if u r a student and u r in Drexel University then u can expect "free lunches" at the start of the Fall term.....but now I am off for a "paid lunch"...

Freshers Party!!!

What a night!! Great atmosphere, great dance, great music, cool DJ....awesome pizzas and a fantastic crowd....you might be wondering what am I talking about Fresher's Party organised by Pragathi Indian Student Association at Drexel University, Philadelphia. We had an absolute blast.....the show was well organised and there was also a micmicry show by a talented alumni.....best of all entry, food and drinks were free for the freshers.....ekdum vassool party boss...slept at 3:00am and now I am in college trying to make out head and tail of a thesis on which my research is dependent....chalo...enjoy