Monday, June 30, 2008

BullDOZER

It is a well known fact that I used to sleep for an average of 12-13 hours during the holidays between engineering and b school. I hardly ever left my room and my bed was HEAVEN ON EARTH. That is primarily the reason that I have become chubbier in the last few months. Sleep is a very important part of the day, especially for the people who are hyperactive during the day. We need to rest our body and mind.

Now here at NITIE, life is falling into a routine. I sleep late, but have to wake up by 7:30 to get to class in time after bathing and breakfast. I've been managing to do accomplish that myself, otherwise my roomie comes to the rescue and wakes me up. So I'm managing. But to compensate, i'm sleeping in the classes also. So much so that, I'm automatically attracted to the seats near the window. The only colours we can see on campus are Grey and Green. The grey of the clouds and the incessant rains which never seem to stop and the green of the flora on campus.

Amidst all the work, the movies, the latenights and some sleep, I hit upon an idea which might come into implementation someday when we are dead and gone. The idea shall be explained as follows.

Have you heard of Carbon Offsets, Carbon Trading etc ? For those who haven't, let me elucidate. Essentially, companies which have high amounts of carbon emissions pay other companies to cut down on their carbon emissions so as to offset their high amounts to maintain a constant amount in the atmosphere. This is used to reduce pollution considerably.

So my idea is to have Sleep offsets, we should have assistants or people who we can pay to work for us, just the way we would, when we sleep. This would result in the same amount of productivity while we enjoyed our beauty sleep. It would be even better if someone could develop robots with similar mental frameworks for specific individuals. The best alternative would be to have clones.

Maybe someday, when I'm in my eternal slumber, someone who has read this blog would develop something amazing such as this. With that optimistic message, I shall go sleep now.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Of Bschools and sleeplessness

I have moved from the laidback city of Hyderabad to the absolute chaos of Bombay. I'm a NITIEan now. Yeah its hitting me slowly. The amazing greenery is keeping me happy, but the humidity is maddening.
I arrived on the morning of the 19th. Ever since its been an amazing four days. I've met some amazing people, made loads of friends, played football, made presentations and business plans, shopped for pillows, slept for not more than 6 hours put together in 4 days and finally danced like crazy around a bonfire.
We had loads of events where we got to know each other and the seniors too. But the highlight of the whole thing was the inter floor football tournament. Our team was the "FOURTH FLOOR DESTROYERS". We lost to a beatable fifth floor team after they scored early. But this loss meant that we had to try harder as a unit and this way earned each others respect. I think us fourth floor buggers are the closest bunch of wingies among the juniors. The atmosphere in the Lounge (thats what we call it atleast, has three beds which are dirty) where we watch Euro 08 matches is always electric during the midnight.
Apart from this I'm also a member of the Tam and Gult gangs in college, its good to be multicultural I say. Guess what , after a finance case study that I did, I now know what mutual funds are, how stocks are priced and all that abracadabra stuff.
I'm told its going to be real hectic this module, so I won't exactly be able to blog too often. But I promise to keep blogging often. I'm now off to the Lounge to watch Spain v Italy.
PS: Two bits of gyaan that all potential b schoolers should know -
1. We're working on it
2. We'll get back to you
More later folks. Till then Cheerio