Full of colors

The campus was looking colorful yesterday. Technically holi was on Saturday but since we were given holiday on Sunday, we celebrated it yesterday. When I say colorful it means a few colors with pink dominating. The working staff tried in vain to clean but everything here looks pink, the roads, walls and even the floor in hostels. Its okay with these, but most of the people here do have a pinkish tint to their faces, that makes me wonder how long it would take it for it to disappear.

For the sake of participating even I was smeared with gulal over my face, but that’s very less when compared to others. Coming to more (or less) important topics, we got mt papers last week, my score was all time low and es2 papers today, I managed average score in that one.

I have recently finished reading anne frank’s diary. I had been postponing reading it thinking it might not be interesting enough but I am horribly mistaken. I couldn’t believe that one could make their diary so interesting. I may not agree with her on some aspects, but I was impressed by her strength of character. The change in her over that 2 year period was very subtle, and if she would have lived, she would have been one of the finest writers of all time.

I have to prepare for tomorrow’s mt 2 viva. Wish me good luck!

  

All about perfection

The Wikipedia defines perfection as a state of completeness and flawlessness. The question is ‘is everything perfect?’ The answer is no.  But there are some things which are perfect. God is perfect. The nature is perfect. The reason for writing this post is basically about the perfection of nature. Every single day I realize how perfect the nature is. Even now as I sit beside an open window at 1am looking at a peaceful night, only disturbed by the planes flying at low altitude.

We certainly are imperfect. We can’t even verbalize our thoughts properly. Neither is our behavior. Superiority and self centeredness often come in our way. None of us are perfect and we just have to accept it. It is evident in every single thing we do. All the achievements which we feel we have made so far are not complete and flawless. As days pass on more mistakes tend to arise.

All the talk on global warming, environmental pollution etc, ‘are we causing an imbalance in the otherwise perfect nature due to our imperfection?’ I feel the answer is yes.

Coming to individual imperfection, how do we deal with it? Just accepting it and trying not to judge others. Remembering that we do have our flaws. I came to this conclusion because I am tired of people judging me. If I don’t like it, certainly others won’t. Since we see things from our frame of references, its better not to judge. After all we are not mind readers to know exactly the other person's thought process. Even if we are mind readers I don't think we can empathize properly.

I think I have written enough, so coming back to lighter topics; the last week was full of activity; exams, labs and lectures in between. Finally my test 2 series is over except for spom, which was postponed and I don’t know the modified date. My t2 coc score was not bad and I should admit I am surprised. Ams is boring as usual. 

P.S.: Accepting our imperfection doesn't mean we stop trying for perfection.

Skill test 1

I was supposed to be finding the ‘difference in elevation between two given stations by rise and fall method' in my mt 2 skill test 1. I would have done better had I read the question properly and did as the instructor told me. As I didn’t do so, I had to be content with 53. And we had the theory exam today, which had both eee and civil components. I should say I couldn’t do well in both. Soil mechanics in civil and op amps in eee. So, I gave up my hopes on mt 2.

We have 4 test 2 open book components lined up this week. Coc, es 2, spm, tp1 all in order with a day in between. I guess this would be a busy week. As far as ams is concerned my score in t2 was not bad.

There is something I would like to share. It may be childish but I got this thought, n I don’t know why. Once upon a time there was a rabbit. It was resting under a coconut tree. Quite suddenly a coconut fell from the tree and hit it on its head and bounced off. It woke up due to the impact but nothing happened to it, why is it so?