RPI: 3 semesters done

Its been a while since I posted. But my third semester ended, and it went well. All my classes ended on a positive note and best of all my IED group won the robotics competition. Easily one of my best academic semesters of all time, recieved a great GPA boost, which is always helpful. I had a lot of fun this semester. I dunno what to write about but have a good holiday everyone who reads this blog (whoever you are).

Jeyam Kondain - Adhaikoodavaa

Another Great Bhavana song from the movie Jeyam Kondain. I saw her interview the other day, she really likes Tamil movies! Guess I could have a decent conversation with her! =D

Jeyam Kondain - Sutrivarum Bhoomi

Another really good Bhavana song from her latest movie Jeyam Kondain. Man is she amazing!

Vaazhthukkal - Unmela Aasapattu

Song with Bhavana and Madhavan. Cute song with great meaning. Easily one of the songs that made me like her as an actress.

Jeyam Kondain - Naan Varaindhu Vaitha

This song is from the movie Jayam Kondain. Starring the best actress in all of Chennai, Bhavana!

The Third Semester

Hey everyone! I'm back here at RPI, chilling and enjoying myself. Really busy semester with 20 cr's 8 hrs of TAing and 3 clubs. Its a toonnnnn of fun. well not really.

This semester i am taking a major test of balancing everything and time management, but i have to cut out some fun activities. some of them include hanging with friends on weekdays and going to the gym (i really want to go, stupid school work). having a lot of fun doing work and TAing tho. Classes are interesting/easy/busy work.

I've caught up with a lot of people this semester whether it be here at RPI, back home or far away (thank you Aim, Facebook) and i feel confident in my ability to maintain these friendships.

My apartment is really nice, its 4 of us in single bedrooms + a kitchen, lounge and bathroom. Its really nice and comfortable. I'm rarely here thanks to my schedule 8Am to 6Pm... ugh. but thats what i get for signing up for all this right?

Well i'll post more as things happen, but as of now nothing interesting has happened.



Boston updates:
Celtics - Camp starts soon and we will win #18 this yr
Sox - here come the playoffs!
Pats - Lost season (brady injury) but we get to see what we have and reevaluate the roster, hopefully everything else holds up and we realize our flaws. In Belichek I trust!

Talk to you guys later.

Summer Evaluation and Thoughts

Ah Summer 2008, I can't believe it's over already, it seems like just yesterday i wrote my previous post (well actually this break felt really long but it also felt really good.) It gave me time to recharge, from a grueling 2 semesters which consisted of me doing a lot of work. Well this is how i spent my summer and random thoughts i have about it:

Work - The main thing that occupied my summer is my internship. I was working for a company about 40 mins away so it was a lot of driving, but it was a great experience. Work experience is invaluable so i'll take anything i can get and of course i met a lot of really cool people, interns, managers, coworkers they were all pretty chill. Overall: A

Playing Sports - Well going into the summer i had really high expectations about playing a lot of basketball and sports in general. The summer started off well, we tried to play everyday, and it worked out really well. Then all of a sudden it stopped. it seemed like we took like a 2 month hiatus or something. That threw me off a bit, but its alright everyone was busy working. End of the summer we played again, i lost some of my touch but it was still really good. However i joined a bowling league this summer and i improved my bowling average by a large margin. I started off with a 97 average for a week, but by the end of the year i could hit 115-125 no problem. Overall: B

Social - This is where it gets crazy, in one hand socially i had a really great time this summer. OTOH, maybe not so much. This is the part that has been bothering me, a lot, but i don't feel like writing about it immediately, it has to take some time to settle. Overall: Incomplete

its been a great summer. I had a lot of fun.

Overall - A+ summer. it really has been great.

Reflections and Thoughts after Freshman Year

Wow that was incredibly fast, i mean really fast. Just seemed like yesterday I moved into RPI and started my "new" life here in college, but i guess time does fly when you are busy and having fun. I have learned a lot more this past school year than any other school year that i have attended. I learned more about myself, American Culture, and i have become a completely different person than when I entered this place. This year definitely had its ups and downs as you guys have prolly read on previous posts here about college.

Random things about college that surprised/i learned about myself:


1. I've come to grips with the idea that i don't care what others think of me, its one of those little things in high school i wanted to implement, but i just couldn't. Here in college i got that clean slate that i wanted and i fully reach my potential on the way i want to be. That worked amazingly. Some of my friends say that i have no dress sense meaning i wear the same thing everyday, (t-shirt and pants). i don't care what i look like, i wear whats comfortable.

2. I realized i have become waaaaaaay more social than i was in high school which is always a good thing.

3. I have had some experiences here that have made me mentally and emotionally stronger, and witnessed events and seen friends go through some tough times that have made me understand the real world a bit more than i had in high school.

4. My Highschool has prepared me really well for college and its challenges, i keep up with my work and and use my solid but not spectacular work ethic to keep my grades up. My friends say i work too much, but its just me i don't feel prepared going into a test not studying even if i need a 50 in it to get an A. Its just the way Westford Academy has taught me. They also prepared me well for some intro topics in College, thank you AP teachers and of course Math Team for teaching me the fundamentals of permutations and combinations.

5. I have lost a lot of weight here in college and i attribute it to the wonderful food by RPI dining halls. Meaning its soo bad that i eat about 3 meals a day and still don't put on weight as nothing beats a home cooked meal. NOTHING. and also helped by the fact that i do intense physical activity at least 4 times a week.

6. How naive i was in high school. I come here to find out things that were going on at High school but i dind't know about. Little to my knowledge it did go on in Highschool.

7. I am really good in keeping in touch with people, i have kept close friendships and maintained connections in high school friend groups, family friend groups, summer @ brown groups, and College friends. its a tough balance but that along with my studies i can pull off.

Thats just some of my reflections on freshman year, soo many changes but i'm glad i came here to RPI. I'm excited for this summer and next semester as well.

Summer - i have an internship and i'll be able to see some of my friends who i havn't seen in over a year.
Fall - Housing situation is amazing, and classes are gonna be amazing

Have a great time guys, thanks for reading!

What am i thinking, i don't know

The most bizarre thing happened today. A bunch of us decided to go and play basketball. All of a sudden i had the biggest adrneline rush, the bad kind. I decked a friend of mine going for the ball. Dove for the ball and almost clipped another friend's knees. I basically took my all-out style to a new level, but it was a more angry level... I dunno what fueled that anger. I deeply regret what happened. Second of all i took cheap shots today... why?

What caused me to go on that angry rage? I have no idea. I said things like i don't want to lose, and losing is bad and what not. I feel like my actions today made me lose the team. I let the emotions get the best of me. However after deep thought, i have found a few sources for my anger.

Source #1: I feel like i've underachieved out there on the basketball court. I feel like i'm letting my team down, not being able to score consistantly, not being able to shoot, not being able to play point guard, not being able to be a leader, not being able to play defense. Hence that is driving me emotionally crazy, i know for a fact that i can play better and i've been working on it.
but i still see no sign of improvement. I want to help the team but i feel like at the moment i'm rather useless to the team, more over i do more bad than good out there.

Source #2: Losing close games because of my game management. i have made some very poor decisions out there trying to win games, keep the team together, mainitaining friendships, giving everyone playing time. Balancing all that is a bit tough, but i'm learning on the job.

Source #3: I feel like i'm missing something, i dunno what. But over the course of the last week something is missing. i spend the last weekend in my room watching movies instead of hanging with the usual crew. I dunno, i guess i'm feeling homesick a bit? i do talk to friends from back home a lot, even though i feel well connected with my friends here, it dosn't seem the same like it was back home. We'll see how it goes from here on out. i have to get used to the differences between here and Westford.

Source #4: relationships mess things up, i've noticed that. it rips ppl from their friends. Friends throw their true friends away when they have girlfriend/boyfriend, the ones who were there for them when they needed support. The same friends who you hung out with daily you forget about completele. my friend the other day asked me "Wait since when do you guys play basketball at 10:30 at night?", we've been playing late every day for about a week. I told him, "way to be observant and forget about your friends." (he has a gf and has completly forgotten about us)... WHY? i'm not that mean, i don't take cheap shots usually. There's that and other things, i dunno. I feel sorta lost? confused? maybe. but i'm in the process of figuring out what i want to do. Being a grown up in an adult world is rather different and annoying but i'm learning on the job.


Source #5: People not keeping their promises. People make bets, say things that they believe they'll keep. they even put money on it, but in turn they don't keep their word. My friend put up an "ultimatum" and he didn't keep his word. he put money on bets and didn't pay up (not with me but others). Why can't people stay true to their word.

Source #6 - i have no idea. there might be more.

There we go, little insight into my world. Lets go BARH Chambered Nautilus, we're 0-3 but we'll get them this week. I will bring my intensity, but not to the point it was today. i'll attempt to tone it down a bit. for all you tigger fans out there, TTFN (ta ta for now).

Happy V-Day/Singles Awarness Day

Hello all, i havn't written in here in so long. (about a month now). Well everything is going well. I just had a busy week and it finished. Nowadays i'm freer than usal now. I've been watching a couple movies and there are some very good ones out there. BARH drama, ha is very funny again. Of course nothing involving me (i've been out of it forever now) but more involving my friends. i have been keeping in touch with friends from back home and reconnecting broken friendships, its been fairly interesting.
Things that i've done over the past few weeks included dancing for the first time ever on my birthday on jan 19th. That was loads of fun. I enjoyed that a lot. I've been relaxing a lot, thinking, and writing. Thinking about life in general, am i happy where i am? yes of course. its a fun time.
Other things i've done i've written an e-mail that was 5 pgs long double spaced and 1" margins (MLA style). that was one of the most beastly e-mails i've written. here's an excerpt from that e-mail.

"I explained the process of arranged marriage to my friends, at least for me this is what would happen. My parents pick out ppl and then talk to their parents. If they are interested they have the guy and girl meet up at one of each others house and are given the opportunity to talk somewhere, whether it be a walk/dinner/room. It’d be more of an arranged date and you make a decision based on that one date. I told them I’d have a list of questions to ask the girl, ranging from her view on life, her past, and what she think of me at the end. And of course if she’s had any past relationships or anything of that matter. Of course I’d be honest and tell her about my past (as little as it may be). If both of us are honest in the first place, that’s a start you kno. If other things match up well and I’ll be set. But they don’t understand. My friends don’t get the fact that talking to someone ranging from 10 mins to 2 hrs can help you decide if you want to spend the rest of your life with them. Well put it this way I believe it can. If you ask the right questions then u can decide it works doesn’t it?"

That is an excerpt i beleive is pretty cool. It explains most things that i talk about. well thats it for blogging for now, nothing seems to come to me as emotionally i've got nothing to write about other than the fact that i am against v-day. if u love someone u tell them that everyday instead of just one day. you know? well i'm gonna play b-ball soon i'll blog later!

Surprise turn of events

Wow wow wow, ya thats my reaction at the moment on something i heard. very unexpected to hear that but i did. BARH drama and its turns. wow wow wow. y is there soo much drama amongst us freshman, the RA's, LA's and students know about it. Our LA came by and was like wow y is there soo much going on.

We need our own TV show, but i'm gonna start documenting things i've heard and know somewhere like a journal because everything will be funny to read many times over and over again. i'll prolly start writing it soon for fun, because this freshman year is very memorable. and its something i want to keep forever. :D

Just sit back and enjoy the show.

Mwahahahaha

Ya thats the title for this post. i love whats going on right now at BARH! very intersting twists and turns. For not being in the middle of any of it or part of any of it i'm loving the laughter it provides. Its making me happier watching how crazy things get here at BARH. We need our very own tv show as right now the only thing that we have documenting whats going on is our minds. maybe a journal entry or article about what goes on would be funny.

I heard great news today that made BARH drama even better and more funny. HA HA HA. ya its soo funny. very unexpected but it happend. wow. wow. wow. wow.

Not my greatest piece of writing but w/e. I'm still really estatic.

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

let the real fireworks begin.

Beginning of Second Semester

First post of the New Year! Classes started today and so far its going well. I have a few of my close friends in each class but i don't know anyone in my Calc 2 or web and database programming class. i know of ppl in my other 4 classes for the semester. I've had physics and Discrete so far today. and physics seems like a lot of work, but if i'm on top of my game i should be fine. Discrete on the other hand is optional hwk, but i know if i want to do well then i have to work hard in that class and do the work while paying attention in class, its purely logic and proofs, if i can get the grasp of those i should be fine.

Second semester is also a time for change, i have set my goals for the semester and will work hard to achieve them. Well thats it for now, gotta get back to doing some work and i'll prolly post later. BTW, BARH drama has gotten worse.