Saturday, September 20, 2014

Amusing/Pleasant observations at IITK #4

Free time is a luxury for at least those who are not mired deep into their doctoral research work! 

For the same reasons as stated frequently before, I am making this short entry in a hurry.

Yesterday was a unusually strange day. I think from morning itself, while I was on my way to the academic area, I started noticing that many of the students' faces/ physiques/expressions etc. resembled with those who were around me when I was a UG student. Later in the evening, while performing the exam-invigilation duty as part of my teaching-assistant job of a departmental course, I again made similar observations with the (>100) students taking the exam!

Before sleeping I realized that because I have been in this place for so many years now, I have been exposed to lot many new faces than others. And if it is true that in a sufficiently large sample size of homo sapiens this property is to be expected, then it's not all together a weird experience. Also I have read that our brains are hard-wired to recognize human faces, like most other species as well, I guess.

I wonder if someone else has had same experience.
Oh, there's a guy in my hostel who I think resembles me.