Loneliness and boredom are the two main driving factors behind a blogger's urge to blog. I do not fall into the category of people who write blogs that contain "messages for the people". My blogs contain only one message; Lalit Subramanian is bored.
I take this opportunity to "fill the gap" for the sake of the reader, who, I believe, would not, in my next post, like to grope in the dark to pick up the strings that I never left. I mean, the reader always wants clarity. He does not want to learn new facts without knowing the status quo. So here goes...
At first, let me bring to the notice of the reader that I am not ignorant of the fact that I have hitherto not made a clear distiction between "blogs" and "posts". Let me not go ahead without acknowledging this fatheadedness on my part. I accept my ignorance not too blithely.
Alright then. I am now in the US of A with an F-1 visa. Technically I am described as "an alien authorized to work". This description has fascinated me in many ways. The "alien" part is very true, except for the fact that when I came here I looked at my surroundings as alien until this description made me realize that it is me that is alien to the surroundings and not vice versa.
The "authorized to work" part is more intriguing. It seems to me to be a very apt description of my current way of life. It looks as if I am here mainly to work rather than study. My statistics professor would agree with enthusiasm when I present him with figures like 6 hrs of work against 2 hrs of classes each day. Besides, I work at a food court, where the job fails to provide any food for the mind. But should I be complaining? It is this food court that takes care of my living expenses. Moreover, it is this job that has given me a graduate assistantship this semester. So "I am glad that I am this fortunate".
I have successfully(?) completed one semester and am almost midway through the second semester. I have taken 3 courses this semester. Currently I am so overloaded with homework that I have reached a point where I have stopped bothering about deadlines. I have actually started to dare forego deadlines in order to indulge in other activities such as sleeping and eating. And I do this purely to maintain my mental integrity. One hardly wishes to spend one's entire future in a lunatic asylum.
Has anyone of you tried writing a decent sounding blog when you are in class listening to a professor talk about a squid axon? Let me stop here before I lose it completely. I trust the reader is now sufficiently acquainted with the status quo. Adios for now...
I take this opportunity to "fill the gap" for the sake of the reader, who, I believe, would not, in my next post, like to grope in the dark to pick up the strings that I never left. I mean, the reader always wants clarity. He does not want to learn new facts without knowing the status quo. So here goes...
At first, let me bring to the notice of the reader that I am not ignorant of the fact that I have hitherto not made a clear distiction between "blogs" and "posts". Let me not go ahead without acknowledging this fatheadedness on my part. I accept my ignorance not too blithely.
Alright then. I am now in the US of A with an F-1 visa. Technically I am described as "an alien authorized to work". This description has fascinated me in many ways. The "alien" part is very true, except for the fact that when I came here I looked at my surroundings as alien until this description made me realize that it is me that is alien to the surroundings and not vice versa.
The "authorized to work" part is more intriguing. It seems to me to be a very apt description of my current way of life. It looks as if I am here mainly to work rather than study. My statistics professor would agree with enthusiasm when I present him with figures like 6 hrs of work against 2 hrs of classes each day. Besides, I work at a food court, where the job fails to provide any food for the mind. But should I be complaining? It is this food court that takes care of my living expenses. Moreover, it is this job that has given me a graduate assistantship this semester. So "I am glad that I am this fortunate".
I have successfully(?) completed one semester and am almost midway through the second semester. I have taken 3 courses this semester. Currently I am so overloaded with homework that I have reached a point where I have stopped bothering about deadlines. I have actually started to dare forego deadlines in order to indulge in other activities such as sleeping and eating. And I do this purely to maintain my mental integrity. One hardly wishes to spend one's entire future in a lunatic asylum.
Has anyone of you tried writing a decent sounding blog when you are in class listening to a professor talk about a squid axon? Let me stop here before I lose it completely. I trust the reader is now sufficiently acquainted with the status quo. Adios for now...
