The Dates that Changed My Life

1. One wonderful summer morning in May 2002, when my dad bought the first computer for me and my brother.

No More Facebook!

Happiness is too loud on Facebook and when you are unhappy it gets even louder. So, goodbye Facebook!

Random Note to Self 3

I have to admit, I really like the emotional roller-coaster ride of research life.

I have been working in a project for the last one year. Most of the time, I was working blind, just based on mathematical modeling, without any sort of experimental data. There were times, when I was really skeptical about the research, the model I was developing. But last week, I started receiving experimental results from the other person I was working with. The similarity in the results made me feel so good! It made me forgot all those ups and downs that I went through for the last one year. I really love my work!

A Mathematician's Apology

"There are many highly respected motives which may lead men

to prosecute research, but three which are much more important

than the rest. The first (without which the rest must come to

nothing) is intellectual curiosity, desire to know the truth. Then,

professional pride, anxiety to be satisfied with one’s performance,

the shame that overcomes any self-respecting craftsman when his

work is unworthy of his talent. Finally, ambition, desire for

reputation, and the position, even the power or the money, which

it brings. It may be fine to feel, when you have done your work,

that you have added to the happiness or alleviated the sufferings

of others, but that will not be why you did it. So if a mathematician,

or a chemist, or even a physiologist, were to tell me that the

driving force in his work had been the desired to benefit

humanity, then I should not believe him (nor should I think the

better of him if I did). His dominant motives have been those

which I have stated, and in which, surely, there is nothing of

which any decent man need be ashamed."

-G. H. Hardy

MArch 7, 2012

Another empty inbox day went by...this emotional roller-coaster ride is becoming so unbearable!

One slightly good thing is I scheduled my defense...its on April 30th....Hope to do it clean.


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So here I am again, sad and lonely at home :-(
I wish things would be different :-(

A blog about mathematics

Just came across this wonderful blog by Terry Tao. For someone like me who desires to be a mathematician, its a wonderful blog to read!

Hope to post mode detail soon!