It's Buzzing!!

BITS-Pilani Goa campus students witnessed a rather epic and record making activity over the last four days.

Google Buzz is a service provided as an add on to Gmail...it works somewhat like twitter where you post things and those following you can view and express their opinions about it through comments. It also has a like button(FB anyone?).
Now a few days back I had a comprehensive exam paper in a monstrous and frankly useless course(not for me actually :| ) named Mechanics of Solids, or as we fondly like to refer to it, MoS. The subject is but a test of your fingers agility and not of your understanding of how slender members bear loads. A person expert at doing quick calculations on a calculator(with precision mind you) is more likely to be a high scorer than someone with short stubby fingers who punches numbers like on an elevator.
The exam proved to be exactly the same, 3 hours of finger numbing calculations.
So in the aftermath of it, i made a Buzz statement, "MoS-tly Mistakes"

And that set the wheels into motion...

One discussion led the another and the comments just stacked up...The first 24 hours saw all of some 30 comments, the next 2 hours saw about 100...

Long story short, final count stands at 494 comments...

Here is an excerpt from it before Google themselves cut it off!!!

Arpit Srivastava - We reach closer to the mark..the upper limit...the threshold...which many claim is the highest an ordinary man may ever be able to go.

Will we make it past 500 comments and go on till we at last perish? Or will we be detained at the 500th mark? I know not...

But what we do know...what we do believe ...is that the journey till here along with each and everyone of the fellow buzzers was a memorable one...to cherish for decades to come. Perhaps, we will talk about it one day, while we sit in our armchairs, watching our beautiful grandchildren play, living in a world, hopefully some how, indirectly made better by the hard work put into this buzz.

We might pen it down in our autobiographies, as a reminder of the childish things we did in our youth, when we were still not quite ready to enter this world despite our intellect, for generations afterwards to visualize and recreate.

Now, let us hold our heads up straight and walk along the path we have chosen...a path which from some might conclude that we have strayed the right path...

Yes, we have strayed from the path...with the hope that we would be able to carve a new path in this solid wall of rock that hinders our passage, for our generations to come to follow....and lead a better life.


Do remember this buzz, whenever you feel you have forgotten all about your days in college...your days as a student at BITS...

Never Forget -

Once a BITSian, Always a BITSian

Hold this close to your heart...and keep safe. This is yours and yours alone...

Let us plod on fellow buzzers!

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Quiz-1

Here are some of the questions I've made for my quizzes in the past-

1. Connect-

Interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis

The molecular scattering of light

Studies of the structure and function of the ribosome

The discovery and study of the life cycle of the malaria parasite

The theoretical structure and evolution of stars

2. Who is India's longest serving legilator cum playwright cum lyricist?

3.Only two actors have received Academy Award nominations (lead or supporting) in every decade since the 1960s. They are?

4. Tiananmen Square, China and Macroplaza, Mexico are the largest and second largest public squares respectively. Which is the next one?

Answers in a few days...

More questions soon...

Tolerance

this is not about the religions,

nor about people with delusions,

this ain't about the corrupt leaders,

nor about crappy newsreaders,

hardly will i talk about the education system,

cos its just better to keep quiet about 'em.

this is not about poor internet,

nor is it about bookies and bets...

i'd never stray near a twilight fan,

if you have read it ur not a man...

this is about something very weird,

"geometrical tolerances", i exclaim, scratching my beard!!!

Let's call it a day...

The origins of the weekend are interesting...
Since time immemorial, a day of the seven day week has been reserved for rest.
Most of the world observed this day on a Sunday(primarily as a day of prayer in countries
where Christianity was widespread) while the middle-east observed their rest day on
Friday(traditionally the Islamic day of prayer). But the concept of 5 day weeks
which is popular in countries like Australia, England and USA is a fairly recent
development. It all began with the American labour unions trying to accommodate
Saturday in the rest days as most Jewish workers took their Sabbath on this day, instead
of Sunday. Their appeal was successful and a cotton mill was the first to adopt a 5 day week.
Pretty soon, biggies like the Ford Motor Company started having 5 day weeks and the
concept caught on.
In the 1970s a disc-jockey at a pub in Ohio came up with a rather iconic phrase which
we have come to associate with the beginning of a weekend, "Thank God! It's Friday!".
Today, the weekend buzz begins on Fridays itself, with workplace chit-chat topics
dominated by people's weekend plans. Plans for unwinding, catching up and recharging
for the week to follow. Saturday nights are game and pub nights! Sunday is for time with
your loved ones and both days are a chance to exercise your lazy bones!

Now, why am I suddenly so infatuated by the weekend?
Cos my weeks ends only at 4pm on a Saturday... :(

Cheers!

The Heart of Life

Ever wondered if Life was a person,
what he or she would look like?
would he or she be someone who you
will take an instant liking to?
or would the very sight of him/her unsettle you?
what would life's attributes be?
is life greedy? selfish? or perhaps life is enthusiastic...
maybe even vibrant...
one thing is for certain..
life appears different to each individual...
and the way you see Life is perhaps
the very way I don't...
but at the end of the day,
we all have to accept Life...
and hopefully
Life will accept us...
for as a song goes...
The Heart of Life is Good!