Friday, November 25, 2005

HELI ATTACK 3
This one is a very addictive game from the people at miniclip. Very addictive so be careful. It's been screwing up my study schedules off late. Shoot down all the helicopters and some weird tank like things. Some amazing guns. Have fun.

THE DEATH PSYCHIC
The death psychic tells just exactly how you are going to kick the bucket! All you have to do is give your name, age and sex!

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

A day gone by - a night waiting to begin

Its over. Already?
The day has gone by with nothing being accomplished. How am i going to manage in these exams? That aside, I downloaded an interesting software. It helps you create mind-maps on your computer. For the uninitiated, mind mapping is a technique of note taking, organising information, improving memory etc. Now that i have it though, I don't have time to use it.
Read about a real shocker in the newspaper. It seems a student of IIT-Bombay(one of India's premier engineering colleges) commited suicide the other day. Reason: He was failed by his teachers in three subjects. Reason: Poor attendance in classes. Reason: He was a physics major, but what he was really interested in was computers. In fact he was a networking genius. He was credited to having made a search engine for IITB's intranet. This 'preoccupation' resulted in poor performance in his course work, poor attendance. Result: He did not make the required grade. So Mr.Genius decides its time to hang himself from the ceiling!
It made me think. In an alternate reality, if this guy braves the situation and actually lives through college, then maybe he applies his genius and changes the world! Maybe even for the better.
Another interesting thought. Many students from India would die for an opportunity to get into an IIT. And this dude...

Life, The Exams, and Nothing Else!

This Sucks.
Exams begin on the 28th i.e. next Monday. Apart from the fact that we are expected to mug a whole lot of subjects we are not interested in, we also have to face these exams. Darn it all. What will they have us do next?

Anyway, there is not much going on in life currently. Apart from the studying and stuff. CAT happened this Sunday. Which means I have less than 1 year to prepare. Scary Stuff. They changed the pattern again. It was now some 90 questions. Divided into three sections, each having an A and B subsection.
Subsection A: 10 Questions of 1 mark each
Subsection B: 20 Questions of 2 marks each

This was drastically different from the earlier year's pattern of 123(where did they come up with that??) questions.
Oh did I mention the negative marking? 1/3rd of the marks for the question would be deducted for wrong answers!
I've been fiddling with a lot of time management stuff(God knows I'll be needing a lot of that next semester. What with Euphoria and Crescendo around the corner.). The technical term for these tools is 'Personal Information Managers'. Deep. Anyway Mozilla Sunbird is by far the best PIM I've seen. Its rating was boosted quite a lot by the fact that I'm a cheapo and its free!
If anyone actually reads my Blog and has any tips on how to manage all these exams and extracurricular activities, please feel free to tell me. You will be rewarded with Mihir Currency. When I am the dictator of my private island nation, you can actually use this currency! What more could you possibly want?