my crazy life

I finished my applications to London School Of Economics & Political Science (LSE) just a few days ago. Now the hideous wait starts.

Ive decided that if I get my admit from LSE, i am gonna happily accept the offer, as ive come across many expert opinions that ‘the brand matters a lot in UK’. Ive noticed LSE is a household name in India too; almost everyone has heard of it.

Moreover, there is something about the city of London; i don’t know what but there are vibes, cosmopolitan touch, energy etc that attract me to London which is one of the world’s most exciting capital cities. The School is located in the centre of London; providing great social and academic resources. What better way  can there be to experience London than to feel it right being in the middle of the it.  I’ll have the opportunity to be at the financial centre of whole UK where all the big things happen. This means more chances of meeting new and exciting people and grow my own network in addition to the countless cultural and educational opportunities.

But this all is IF  i get an admit. Days just pass waiting in front of the lappie screen and refreshing the page for any gesture from them. even though i know the results won’t be out before January.

please pray for me till i get into it.  O dear LSE; admit me, please!!!!!

finally after the wait of exactly one month i got a nod from The University Of Edinburgh’s MSc OR yesterday. yeah i applied early to the programme  as there were no deadlines. i got the reply early too. it was one of my first choices because the course seems awesome. Now next univ to be conquered is London School Of Economics(LSE). Applications start from monday,12Oct . Now if i get an admit from here too, it might be a tough task for me to decide.  It would be a choice between Brand-name (LSE) v/s the Course content (Edinburgh). bro says “go for the course you like”.

here’s the mail that i got from the sweet lady….

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To the attention of Vikas Sharma,  s1001066 <my univ user name>

Dear Vikas,

Thank you very much for your application to the MSc programme in Operational Research at the University of Edinburgh. We think you have a solid background for the programme and so we are very pleased to offer you a place, conditional on you completing your current degree with the equivalent of a UK 2.1 degree (which in your case should be 60% or over).

An official offer letter will be sent to your Euclid account in due course, to which you will then have to respond as to whether you accept or decline the offer. There is a high demand for places on the OR MSc programme so it is important to keep us informed of your plans.

We would be delighted and very much hope that you will accept our offer and look forward to welcoming you to the University. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

With best wishes,
Coralia Cartis, PhD
Lecturer, School of Mathematics
OR MSc Admissions Selector
University of Edinburgh

Operational Research MSc, School of Mathematics,
University of Edinburgh, JCMB, King’s Buildings, EDINBURGH, EH9 3JZ, UK.

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ive read that mail like 100 times…now m ready to have a hole in my pocket (yeah it calls for a party). but its just a first step, main journey starts a year later(next september to be precise). till then i can relax and enjoy my college now. gotta focus on my project and hard days to come in recent future, but these hardships would seem a lot sweeter and things must ease out now, kudos to this admit. DIWALI seems to have come a week early for me.

Party time

sweetie was outta town today so i thought it was the best time to catch-up with a movie, with no one to disturb me. yeah i confess i am a movies-freak. when i see one, i am totally into it. i feel to be the part of whatever is going in front of me in a movie. just finished THE BUCKET LIST. needless to say i liked it a lot. there were some really memorable moments and quotes to take away and contemplate over. one of  my favorites was:

“our lives are streams flowing into the same river towards whatever heaven lies in the mist beyond the falls. Find the joy in your life. My dear friend, close your eyes and let the waters take you home.”

especially that, finding the joy part. there are so many precious moments that pass and we just don’t acknowledge them. mostly busy with chasing our dreams, we all forget to find happiness in our li’l moments that unfold unexpectedly.  we  wait for something to happen and make us happy( like i am waiting for my admit).  i realized so after watching the movie.

i am not a great writer who is articulate enough to scratch what i feel. but i think of giving it a try. m gonna maintain a “to-do list” for myself too, similar to the one in movie. one item from the list  that i will never be able to fulfill would be catching NIRVANA live  (especially Kurt Cobain. drugs are bad you see). still ill bear with other items on list and try n live my life, while am alive, to the fullest.

Happy living

thud….ouch!!!! asshole it hurts even now.

yeah same was the reaction for me and my project partner at our first defense in front of that “white-huge-supari-eating” jerk. those at my college may have understood by now.

he stripped our project(V2-Torrent,1.1)…..wasn’t interested in it at all. asked whatever he know about the word “torrent”. in a way showed his middle finger to us and our really out of the box project. damn that rude bastard. 

Oh..by the way,forgot to mention, those questions weren’t even related to what we were doing.

even though our HOD was totally impressed by us, and asked that guy to take special care of such good projects. but as soon as he left, that monster just lambasted us and our projects. literally F’d us. what else would anyone expect from us  after giving a minor. i mean, this is absolute madness.

we weren’t the only ones he shagged though. everyone coming out after the defense tried to weigh his reactions and compare who had that fabled project that infuriated that tosser the most.

gotta work hard for the next defense….

god save us, for end is nigh 

my application documents have passed the clearance checks of University of Edinburgh. Euclid users may know…

hell, just the clearance checks and i shout it out onto my blog for that???.. well yeah, it means a lot me still. University of Edinburgh is one of my dream Universities and its my first step towards it.

many things are still left for an offer, though. anyways m positive, as i was with DSP. hope i get my admit. until then i savour this waiting period. \m/

details later(yet again!!!! procrastination at best, i know)…

finally today i begin my journey as college senior.
how it feels, how it has been????
ugh….this final year is still left to leap over
well whole of this summer has been full of sleep, movies, sweet corn, studies(ill elaborate later)
if someone is in an illusion that i am relly happy to be at the college again after 2 long months…. go have a walk dude, i could spend another month home doing the same old shit. it’s just that such a big crazy lazy ass i am.
yeah a li’l change in the routine is alwez good.
gotta go to college , rest later.

Edit@ after a long long time(tomorrow my first internals end) :: i got my results the same day i started my journey as a college senior. i passed all my subjects including DSP(stop scratching your head,see below). overall i got 76.7 %……

“aaj tak koi aisa subject nai bana jo BHAI ko fail karde “

“The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place… and I don´t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently, if you let it. You, me or nobody, is gonna hit as hard as life. But ain’t about how hard you hit… It’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward… how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That´s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you worth, go out and get what you worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits. And not pointing fingers saying: You ain´t what you wanna be because of him or her or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain´t you! You´re better than that!”
- Rocky Balboa

xams from thursday,14 may…wud start preps for micro from tomorrow
but this DSP a.k.a :: Degree Stopping Paper;
Digital Signal Processing
whatsoever you call;its geting onto my head these days..really worried with that…filters, maximum phase,response, DFT,FFT,design,z-transforms,BIBO stability,linearity,FIR-IIR… blah blah blah…..bhago………..!!!!!!

EDIT @24 may :: DSP was disasterous…may not pass, looking to keep it as an audited subject. micro wasnt well either…

who cares…am happy

 cheers  \m/  !!!!!

after realizing that something was missing from the blog ,ive decided from now on ill include music on my blog,.ull see a small sweet player below my random rants

click play to know what am i upto/listening…. it may take some time for player to buffer the track depending on your connection speed, so give this kid some time

lets roll with a classic

enjoy!!!!!

heya….so finally today the offiicial classes @ college came to an end. nowfrom next week internal vivas , practical exams the next week and then the end terms after a week long holiday..

how does it matter to me ,u may ask…hmmm, fair enough question !!!!

well actually it does….it means no more classes, no more seniors to be seen and we’ll be the seniormost from next session onwards,less number of subjects(4 instead of 6)so no more head banging for whole long week (this semester exams to cross though)

one of the major reasons i feel like sulking is sweetie, yep one of my bestest friends in college  and my partner in every thing i do…

she is in final year of BBA and we wont be able to meet as often once the college gets over…no more movies, malls @ rajouri, CCD’s coffee etc after bunking college, no more cholle kulche (and ofcourse no more cursing and bickering about excessive calories in ‘em), no more messages like “kaha ho??” OR “jaldi come to 1st block,lab hai meri” OR “5 min ruk yaar ara hu,me bhi chalunga sath….teacher attendence leri hai…..”

waise, i think i am doing all this quite early…abi to semesters baki hain….we would realize when i move to new semester and she goes on with her MBA..

to celebrate the moment…..i mean last time outing for old time’s sake went out for lunch today at a place that we had been planning to haunt since long….DRAGON HUCKS @ model town(thanks bhai for financing this lunch)

not to mention,we will meet when she is no more in college but it won’t be the same anymore,there wont be any charm in those missed lectures and sitting in the blocks for long and talking crap, nescafe classics wont be same,that maggi would taste same but the laugh and momentary fights while biting each others share wont be there(i know i was winner always ). how can i forget that long drive from college to rithala and that waiting at our self named lane-1 and lane-2…things would change this time,always they have. but i hope they do for good. i know thats life and thats how world goes on. howsoever it does but there shall always be a special place for u, sweetie.

Hasta la vista