Hi everyone.....I am a graduate student studying in the University of Colorado, Boulder........this is my first blog ever.....don't really know why I have decided to blog......but I just wanted to try out something different.....something that I have never done before and most importantly, something that would take me far away from my everyday life!
My day usually starts with me finding my spectacles, which have a habit of playing hide and seek with me! And the new pair which I have, plays amazingly well!! Being in Boulder, I have been fortunate to have a very scenic view from my bedroom......the amazing Rocky mountains with the green and the yellow of the trees and a clear white band of snow covering their tops and a clear blue of the sky above......heaven! As I capture this beauty around me in one deep breath (cause thats the amount of time you can afford to spend appreciating nature these days), I realize that I am late......
There are evil networks (one of my courses) on the loose out there....which don't get any simpler.....with protocols sitting on top of each other and the entire internet sitting on top of my head......I have a bath which relaxes me.....only to a certain extent! But then my stomach starts giving me hints that I need to have something....I give it cereals.....sometimes bread and nutella....maggi noodles with cheese......but it is not satisfied.....it wants something familiar......something which it can have only after I cook!!
Finally as it gets satiated, my eyelids start getting heavier (its amazing how your eyelids and not your stomach feels the weight) and I realize I need to leave for the lectures! But wait.....how can I?......without tea!!! After having some tea, I make a run for it......ensuring that I take my keys, my buffone card (ID) and other essentials!! Locking the door shut, I scurry past the creek side, jog the entire upslope and finally reach the engineering center gasping for breath only to find that the lecture has already started........not that anyone cares............but still!!!
Of all the things being taught and said in the lectures, announcements are the things I fear the most.....cause you know whats coming....it's not pretty.....and you know you will lose the forthcoming weekends.....yes....the assignments!!! The descendants of pure evil!! But thats grad life.......if its without assignments, its not worth it!!
My evenings usually go in reading of the subject matter but most of the time is spent in planning stuff in the engineering lobby! I plan and plan and plan.......but in the end my Gantt chart reads 'you won't be able to complete it within the deadline'! It also reads 'if you had'nt wasted time in me, you would have been able to'!! (No offense to Mr. Henry Gantt....Sir, you have given us a gr8 project management tool.....just that I start late and then I am not able to "crash my critical path"!)
Its about 9:00-9:30pm that I head home.....its usually windy and chilly.....with bicyclists going at full speed with their "head" lights on......and with enthusiastic joggers jogging along the creek side....with shouts of football players practicing on the Folsom field for their weekend matches!! On reaching my place, I have dinner while I talk with my parents.....'pushing all the updates'....i keep them in-sync with my 'current state'!
Finally its 12:00am that I realize, I should start with my studies......technically this is how my day starts, i guess....but to say such a thing would be a bad joke!! I open my laptop and without even realizing it I open four tabs on google chrome.....yahoo mail.....facebook.....moodle.cs (thats my assignment page)......culink (thats my university mail)!! After skimming over all the updates and the news and the mails.......I decide to start!! But wait.......how can I?....its 1:00am......'chai time'.....!!!
And......here......we......go.......as the "liquid gold" goes in my body......my neurons get triggered.....and they fight out the minions of the Antichrist......aka my network and my vision assignments.....which are usually in the form of programming assignments!! After all the linking and compiling and executing is done.....I take a deep breath.......I take a break........I have a glassful of water......as I hear a highly reverberating voice.....like a voice coming from beyond.....I see a silhouette of some women in my balcony.......I rush towards her......but she disappears as her voice persists......opening the glass door of the the balcony......I see into the distance....
........And there she was.......singing like an angel........her voice so mellifluous.....titillating to the ears!! I felt her voice fade away as moments latter there she was again.......her voice......so mellifluous.....like a continuous monotone!!!
I finally stop pressing the snooze button......and the next day begins.............!!!!