It’s
been a while, I know, but I have assuredly been working on my thesis (with randomly
distributed short/long phases of inactivity, of course). Just 2 days back
I got all my analytical results matched with those obtained using 007’s method but only after again going
through a phase of appreciable turmoil. Fortunately, my previous experience gave
me a much better reason to not lose hope and to hold my ground in the battle! Consequently, I again experienced a nice sense of
achievement after I got this positive outcome. I wish I could describe the full
details here but I am feeling pretty tired right now. Moreover that would probably
make this uninteresting for the readers which I suspect aren’t many as it is.
By the way, this morning I gave a presentation before my thesis committee members summarizing
the work done during the current semester (which is about to end in about a
week from now). And I have a bad habit (probably like many others) of not
pulling my socks up well before the deadline so that the past week has been
very hectic for me.. The presentation went fine, by the way. But now the road
ahead resembles the long highway-type in a desert – one cannot spot the
end-point while gazing as far as one can. I have certain ideas as to what
things to focus on presently and I hope my intuition works in my favor.
Oh,
I would like to mention that I have resumed my table tennis practice in the
evenings and I think it has made a lot of difference as to the general mood I
find myself in. Also, towards the end of my French course I became good friends
with a classmate and my social life’s become much more dynamic (relatively
speaking) since then. These two factors have probably contributed significantly
towards the progress I have been able to make during the current semester. And
so I wish to convey my gratitude to (1) my classmate, for making my stay much
more exciting and interesting in ways I can’t describe well due to my little
background in human psychology and (2) my dad, for encouraging me to play TT early
on which turned out to be a very valuable asset and helped me have an enjoyable
stay at IITK during my undergraduate, and now graduate, studies!
Oh,
one more update – this semester I started reading science-fiction novels!! And I
really enjoyed all those I have read till now:
‘The
Invisible Man’ ; ‘The Island of Dr. Moreau’ ; ‘The Time Machine’ by H. G. Wells
‘Nightfall’
(short story) ; ‘The Gods Themselves’ by Isaac Asimov (this guy is just
brilliant – came to know him from this article: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/04/07/isaac-asimov-bill-moyers-education-science-religion/)
And
I plan to read many more during this summer! In fact, I have been thinking of
writing a post exclusively on this but I thought of mentioning it here since I
think this activity has also been helpful in keeping my mind fertile and my brain's neurons in a
state of heightened entropy.
Okay,
more updates later.
