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A spider on my notebook

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

(A little entry inspired by a little spider who crawled on my notebook, while I was studying)It took me a while to realize that the little grey thing moving on my notebook was not my imagination, but a spider. Scarily tiny, he looked so fragile. My first impulse was to blow him off the paper. But I stopped myself, for he was more interesting to study than impact of globalisation on news reporting. He walked a bit, then paused. Walked. Paused. It looked as though he was searching for something in ...

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And..........they're OVER!!

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

Whew, finally. No more exams for at least a year! (Refer to last post for explanation.)The exam on 'Information Visualization and Perception' was one of the funniest I've ever written in university. After having spent days preparing for it, I felt like how I used to in Class XI or XII, having no clue what I've studied, my mind foggy all over. I proudly claimed 2 chapters weren't important - and guess, there were questions worth 50 marks (i.e. half of the marks allotted to the paper - I almost shrieked ...

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What am I studying?!

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

Ever felt teachers/lecturers have no idea what they're teaching you? Oh well, I'm sure some of you feel that all the time.For the first time after high school, I started studying a subject having no idea what on earth it talks about - Information Visualisation and Perception, which I took on as a General Elective. Now don't ask me why I took such a boring subject - the course description during subject registration cheated me. The description said that we'll study meanings of symbols or words in ...

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Ink wars

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

Mina sighed happily, looking at her new gleaming fountain pen. For the umpteenth time, she turned it upside down, and saw the ink flowing and collecting at the other end of the ink barrel. She opened her new pencil case and placed it carefully inside, away from the two pencils, eraser (pencil and ink), sharpener and ruler. As she excitedly looked forward to her first day in school of writing with a pen, her mother fervently prayed to God for all to go well. Decked in a dashing white uniform, ...

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Pudusu, kanna, pudusu!

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

Bright, mystical and classy. Just the way I like it.Yup, it needs a lot of editing to make it what I want, but how is it? ...

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After long...

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

... I'm back. After weeks of back-breaking work, tension, project meetings, interviews, lows more than highs, confidence-threatening situations, I can't say I've come out unscathed. Life is tough! Glad as I am that I'm able to take it all in pretty well, I wish I could go a step higher and be calmer, and not think of unnecessary things and situations. I find myself worrying sick sometimes, until I just shake myself up and say that when some things aren't in your hands, there's no point worrying ...

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