August has been an eventful month at IIT
There was a second convocation during my stay here - that of our senior batch - in the traditional Jubba-Pyjama attire. Eminent personalities like Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Kapil Sibal were at the occasion. As expected, it was a fun-filled fan-fair of academicians, students and parents.
The counterparts - the junior batch are into the IIT life now - bringing up some nostalgia of what we were an year ago. There was a freshers welcome event by the Kannada Sangha for the people joining from Karnataka this year too...
Placement activities are gaining pace. Companies are coming for presentations, resume uploading has begun, and few practice tests have gone by; and individual preparations are at varying levels. I am still in confusion on how to graft a good non-technical resume that would span atleast one page - with not many activities popping in on that stream.
As a subsidiary of the placement process was the Communication Proficiency assessment - of which I spoke long and boring in the last post itself...
One thing that has been particularly noticeable is the modesty of monsoons - there was almost never a day where it poured throughout - something that Mumbai is well known of. Just like the other parts of the country - rains have been less this year here too.
On a more personal level - my project seems to be making a steady slow progress; and I dare not to refer to it as research in any context. Also, there was a dip in my health graph - coinciding with last year; seems like its a follower of the season changes.
As the Teaching Assistant of Linear Optimization - I did some form of TAship in terms of invigilation and paper correction - solely based on the answer key.
As far as all other recreational and time wasting activities such as movies and facebook are concerned - they are fine :D. Atleast twice a week I get the advice by friends on reducing such frivolous stuff and concentrate on the more important things!!
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