Oh! One more sem over! How scary is that? With people asking - what are you going to do now Shruti? Oh me - I want to do PhD but lets see if things work out! I feel my voice sounding so unsure when i mutter out these words! But still, its something i strongly want to do! Reason - not figured out yet, maybe this reason sounds too simple - physics, particles, thought, perception changing everything, chance phenomena, the very idea of existance of unexplored realms, models which try to explain the behaviour of systems under certain conditions [and without. This is funny though, cuz we [humans] are fermionic yet its so tough to comprehend human mind and behavior most of the times (well, for me!) - wow, i maybe so very incorrect!] - its just so amazing.
Many of the students whom I know are going to be off next semester. When asked what they're planning to do - the answers received are simply amazing - though sometimes its not hard to guess what they'll say - "I'd like to be placed in a company, and then maybe later try my hand at management [MBA]", and a few people are a bit more adventurous with their lives and answer - "I'm gonna go for higher studies - wanna do MS, its pointless doing it here in India"... and some say - "I am dualite re, but maybe job sounds like a good idea and maybe followed by MBA... no more physics pleasee"... and Full stop! It always is so safe, so easy to follow a safe route [a nice job] which'd promise a decent and secure life after graduation [Herd Mentality?! Hmm, it sure is there to some extent]. And how hard is it for a student [BITS student - to be more specific] to be placed in a nice company considering the fact that BITS has a record of very high percentage of placements each year because the quality of BITS students is pretty good? But uncertainity sounds much more fun [yeah yeah - i can hear the word impracticality]
Risk Uncertainity is something that really adds up some adventure in life! Isnt it fun completing the assignments right at the moment of submission of the same, maybe that completed assignment is a result of putting a full night out? Isnt it fun getting lost in a beautiful dream which lands you in a world which you never saw, never imagined and maybe never again will except for in your dreams? Isnt it the mystery of the unknown that makes it all the more beautiful? Isnt dreaming worth that risk - of getting lost at some unknown place? I remember the Shakhambari trip - the uncertainity of a rock(s)/pebbles rolling over under my feet - the feeling of uncertainity - was something that gave me a high - it was almost as if i was expecting to roll down and fall [wouldnt mind a bruise or a cut or a wound] - but that never happened [well, professors were around na - saying 'be careful, be careful'!] - and then going away from the group to explore the yet to be explored place with Nisha [i forgot the name of the place - that water storage thing] - and then four students [Kinnera, Aruna, Amruth and Sriram] coming in search of us and enjoying the beauty surrounding them and us - Oh! it was so beautiful - the whole experience! Oh yeah - the risk - the risk was something that added charm to the whole trip. :)
Maybe my thoughts are taking random leaps from one thought to the other. But a post focusing on one topic is not intended, so its fine!
Again, stumbled upon - http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdm/ [no, i dint stumble upon, i went there wantedly - my brother had deleted the "darkmatter's" snaps trying to 'clean' the comp off useless material and hence getting a shouting from me and a teasing smile saying - 'i m going to save those pictures again chant-ee'; chant-ee: my bro's nick name when he does something that i dont like.. wait, that's his name even when he does nothing that i dont like!]. Well, whatever! It was good that Abhinav deleted the folder cuz, darkmatter has updated his photoblog! And wow! What a blog! Amazing! Awesome! This person is a Genious! I dint know for sure if this person is a physics person, but looking at the pix - i am pretty sure that he IS a physics person. Nope, that's not what attracted me to this blog, it was the pictures [physics comes way later] and the labels for the pictures that are simply too not unnoticable! Pure Genious! And Yeah! On 14th, after the Statistical mechanics paper, Hema told me take an issue of 'Quanta - 2006' from her room, a B5 magazine. And guess what, Darkmatter's pictures are there in it! This person must be pretty famous!
Finally finalised - ID is permitting me to take up a project under Subhash sir - informed sir of that - talked to Rishikesh sir again about an informal project under him, something physics + coding [cuz he told many times in the class that he's workin on that] - came to know that this stage is not yet reached [actually sir told that computation requires some more physics background and depending on the progress made, computation will enter the picture - hope that the enthu wouldnt die off and hope that i dont turn out to be lousy lazy student that i very much am - i know nothing in physics and am an MSc physics [hons] student!] - Neutrino oscillations - that's what am expected to learn - Gauge symmetries, here i come!
Though the idea of symmetry preservation being necessary is something that i dont understand why but as sir was explaining today that symmetries are seen to be violated................ anyways, lets see what happens!
Uncertain and YET (or maybe HENCE) Beautiful!
I dont know what this picture means, but its pretty:
Une Yuletata Frabuleuse
Photo taken from Darkmatter's blog space.
Signing off
Shruti
* Oh! its 12:15 am now! 15th may again - will never be a teen anymore! Bye bye teenage life!
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