Phew..............

Finally finally finally.....the storm has passed and I am flooded by that wonderful feeling once again... Guess what? ENDSEMS OVER ! And that means a month of complete freedom ..... God knows I deserved this...:D
This was a sem of changes ... my room changed , my roomie changed, my friends changed , and moreover I changed.. and a lot at that....
The sem started off with a bang , earlier for me than for most. Ok I guess its about time to tell you all my side of the saga....
I was held guilty of putting proxy in a class and was DACed !!! You wuld think it to be the height of irony for me to be punished for getting a proxy done when its so easy to see that each and every IITian puts proxies daily...and I was among the moooooooooooost regular ones.... :(( :((
Well I was a little less mature then and I was naturally most upset over this.. Let me make it clear to you that the punishment itself was no problem (which involved teaching english to drop-outs). But the fact that I got a punishment was tormenting me lik anything..I dont know but I felt so lost then...It just was'nt fair...not fair at all.....
On the flip side this incident helped me grow. Mebbe it was a blessing in disguise. I know I culd'nt have done it without the help of my sister and parents but in the end my perseverance paid off..I was condoned and held " not guilty" ..aaah..one of the happiest moments of my life:)
Again, problems were far from over for me...I had to put up some fight to keep a ground floor room.. I and vandu were being forced to shift to the second floor. I refused and once again my resilience paid off...[:D]
So this is what I have concluded that you HAVE to put in a Fight( a fight with a capital F ) for a thing you want . Only then will you get it. Only thing important is for you to decide how badly you want a thing. Also if you can visualize urself not getting the thing , then believe me you never will get it. Life is long with many ups and downs but if there were not any downs we wuld'nt appreciate the ups all that much , right?
Actually gotta loads to tell u all..but i have also learned not to tell everyone everything .. so sorry [:d]

Here's a pic taken on department dheench day (heard that blogs with pics receive more hits :P )

How does the world work?

Hieee!!!
The trouble with blogs is that they show your latest entry first which sorts of turns the thing topsy-turvy. Anyway let it be the way it is.
So I promised to tell you sumthing really amazing last time.Hmm.. The thing is that I recently got a gr8888 book on latest physics precisely “The String Theory”.It is called “ The Elegant Universe” and it is by Brian Greene. This one book promises to change the entire way we look at the Universe.
The basic thing about String Theory is that it says that you have a lower limit on how much you can keep dividing a thing. This fundamental unit of length is the length of one string which turns out to be precisely equal to the Planck constant i.e. 6.634* 10 –34 m.Is not that amazing??

But the basic intuitive flaw that arises is that we can’t comprehend that there can be a lower limit at all. After all you can cut an apple into half and then its half and then its half and on and on upto infinity…

The explanation to some extent can be found in an old Chinese problem. Suppose you want to go from point A to B.You decide to go half the distance first .Then you again cover half the distance left that is you have gone ¾ distance now. So you go on going by half distances everytime and eventually u find out that you can never get to your destination at all as always some distance will be left!!!!!!!!!! So going by this argument how can you even go ½ the initial distance anyway??? So does that mean that you can’t move at all? But people move all the time!! So where is the damn flaw??

The argument vanishes if you assume that you can’t go ½ the distance of a string. Well this is a bit like killing the whole issue by saying that Mother Nature just does not allow you to go beyond the string ? Why though? As to that nobody has a satisfactory explanation.

Still making this simple assumption has far reaching effects .One of the greatest successes of String Theory has been the explanation provided by it on the merger of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics on sub-plank scales. Also it beautifully incorporates the presence of particles like gravitons which are responsible for the force of gravity.

Have you ever thought how it would be like to have a multi-dimensional world???Can u even grasp the meaning of having another dimension? It really defies all imagination!!
So meanwhile ponder on the amazing creativity of this thought and not to forget keep watching out for my blog!!Adieu!!

Hi Again!

Hi!
After a long long time I hit the keyboard again. I hav spent the last one month in heaven it seems!Home was never a more welcome word !!Especially after one year of IIT.

I have been doing just what I please lately. Sleeping, eating sleeping and not to forget sleeping were some of my favourite past times:D:D:D

Well that’s not entirely true actually bcoz you do get bored of sleeping also eventually !Unbeleivable isn’t it:-o But so it is.

So my other pastimes have been watching TV,reading , listening to music,Minesweeper,Dave etc etc.Hey Hip hip hurrah for me I finally managed to reach the 6th level in dave .
You know this antique piece of a comp has developed a strange problem.The monitor goes off in every 15-20 mins .And even stranger is that it comes back on again if you rub the pins at the end of the chord joining it with the CPU ,with a metal object!! Even as I was writing this the monitor went off and came on again when I rubbed the chord using a key.

Well Well Well I know I am deviating from the original purpose of this blog as it was meant to give you a perspective of life at IIT.But come on I am now tooooo lazy to start another blog with another name and all.So just consider that NOW this blog deals with me only :):):)

But I won't bore u all by telling abt only myself as only snobs can do that .This was just a bit of background information to get myself in a writing mood.I shall tell you abt some really
Interesting things that I have recently read and which will radically change the way u look at the world around you and the
Laws of the Universe in general!!!So keep visiting my blog:)

First day at IIT

Ohh! What A Day!!!A day such as will go down in history as to hav been of momentous importance not only to us but to the city of mumbai!I will tell u y.
The day we stepped into IIT,it rained cats,dogs,elephants,whales,dinosaurs.
Mumbai saw the worst flooding ever and I hope this disaster never happens again.Over a 100 people lost their lives.So you see we did not start with a very good omen and the days to come just confirmed the age old superstition.
Classes started at 8:30 in the morning of 26th july,2005.
I reached the class at 8:15.Hip Hip Hurray!(That was the first and the last time I was ever early to class:D)
It was a chem class .Our instructor was Prof Tembe.He seemed a jolly person.He did some light talk about JEE,IIT etc and then it ws straight to business.He started teaching crystal structure and soon was asking questions also.I tell u it scared me out of my wits (a test right on the first day!!!!) and I hid behind the guy in front of me and somehow managed to escape sirs glance.
It was mostly the same all thru the rest of the lectures also.My subjects were chem, phy,ma, economics and comp sci.
We had pattern making workshop in the afternoon.Mostly abt tools and stuff.
As I told u it rained very heavily that day and we had to waited a long time for the rain to stop while returning from the workshop.
I made some gud friends that day (probably due to my umbrella) mainly Sonali ,Aarthi, Anwesha,Kriti ,Nishtha and Vrinda as they were all in the same workshop batch as me.
Mummy and papa were to go back on the next day but now we heard that all trains were cancelled as the tracks were flooded and so they wuld be staying for a week more .
That night an exhausted me slept on a strange new bed,in a strange cramped room with new people all around me.Times had changed!!

Oops!!

Hey I just realized that I really hav not told u all "Who Am I"??
Well!!!That in itself is a very profound ques as I think nobody really knows what kind of a person they actually are:)
But taking the question literally I say that I am Aditi Goyal,19 years old ,now in second year at IIT Bombay ,India.That shuld be enugh for the present.
This blog's chief purpose was to be a narrative of life at IIT.And also to chase away my boredom:)
I will start the real stuff from the next post onwards.
And well this is me :)

It is vacation time!!

howdi!!
Finally I hav survived 1 year of IIT decently enugh with a CPI of 8.88:D :D :D
So I am free from the freshie tag forever and ever.Now we gonna be called sophies!
There is simply so much thats happened in this one year that it will take many posts to tell all of them.So I know I am gonna be busy this summer!!
I am not much of a writer so I guess u just hafta bear with me:)

LIFE is GOOD!!!

hello everyone!
It is nice of u to stop by my humble blog!
I am starting this blog on 11:15 am ,1st April,2006 ,from my sister's comp, in the GR8 institute of IIT-B,from the happening city of Mumbai,Maharashtra,India,Asia,EARTH.
Hope u shall visit again!
adieu!