New Life: few weeks down the line

Hi all,

Seems like I am settled and transitioning into Carnegie Mellon culture. Today afternoon, someone cracked a joke on life of grad students. It goes like this:

“you know you are a grad student if you start your assignment on the day it’s posted rather than the day it’s due!!” :P

And I hear a lot of jokes on phd’s: most of them (I guess all of them) reiterates about the “Patiently hoping for Degree” part…..:D — well that’s true!!

Let me write about what happened/changed in last 6 weeks or so:

- I became old (turned 24 recently!)

-Started to like “regular” coffee’s here, with 3-4 sachets of sugar! {yuk!! plane coffee sucks, extreme bitter in taste) (number of sachets should converge to zero as years’ pass by, expecting a slow rate though)

- Back to studying mode – feels good!

- Did many mistakes (in first 2 weeks) while solving simple operators like integration, multiplicaiton etc etc. (ab zyada muh mat khulwao..:P)

- Cooking: doesn’t deserve this down on list. Transformed into "the Chef"

- Intend to makes less jokes on people (I have absolutely no idea what happened to me!)

- Attended 100% classes (record till now)

- Chicks..lots of them (finally studying at an University rather than an Institute)

- Now, I don't get time even on weekends! so sad!


Also, I would like to focus on what haven’t changed (so far):

- Working hours at par with what I was experiencing at ZS (except that you can’t crib on your work!!)

- Lots of work, daily task plan, weekly meetings, conference calls and cisco vpn – all the same.

- salary (now in $$)

- Nokia e71….still there..:)

Going to sleep now….will write soon about studies, lab and research!