thinkin…

There is definitely something wrong with this world… Everytime I think about it, i get more confused …

So , it is better not to think (the fact that i wrote this line “not to think”, is a decisive prove that there is something wrong here)  and read “One hundred years of solitude” By Gabriel Garcia Marquez…

PS: In reference to CS Group..

New Age Maths..

1. 57 / 6 = 14.5 (Economics ..)

2. 45 / 9 * 3 = 45 (Mal 250 ..)

blabberings…

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possessive:

adj.

1. Of or relating to ownership or possession.
2. Having or manifesting a desire to control or dominate another, especially in order to limit that person’s relationships with others: a possessive parent.
3. Grammar. Of, relating to, or being a noun or pronoun case that indicates possession.

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“What is the second most powerful thing in the world ?”

“How can I know …”

“Listening to someone “….

“and asking nothing in return ??”

“probably ..”

“huh.. It is a powerful thing ..I wonder how many can actually do it..Is it essential for making friends??”

“probably..”

“I don’t like you ..”

Summers , 10

Oracle, Bangalore(Bengaluru)

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Happy Birthday Uppal ..

PS: This blog has become a birthday wishing platform.

PS: Girls get a warm birthday song, where as boys get a lame wish

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Happy Birthday Kansal …

CS Group ..

Normally our CS group always remain in a hibernating state, but one one of these recent days, there was a dicussion going on about actual learning in IIT. I contributed a little in the following way …

1. I differ on certain points raised before me in the discussion most notably on the group assignment courses right from the first year. Agreeing with VP, I believe that first two years should be such where an individual is grilled completely on its own (esp. in our department). There is a huge amount of learning element involved in first two years and being in group distorts the balance that is required from all fronts. I am not saying Group work is not important at all, but when doing assignments in a groups, the assignments have to framed in such a way that there are individual independent parts that can merged at a later stage. (Even in such a case, one may argue that an individual is robbed from the learning experience of the other parts). Of course, there are arguments that in the future, we would have to work in large groups but i would like to quote here some lines from a book which i recently read ..

“But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts. It is a secondary consequence. The primary act—the process of reason—must be performed by each man alone. We can divide a meal among many men. We cannot digest it in a collective stomach. No man can use his lungs to breathe for another man. No man can use his brain to think for another. All the functions of body and spirit are private. They cannot be shared or transferred.”             —Howard Roark

I believe that when a mind is not grilled enough to think individually, there is no benefit of having groups.

Coming to a more realistic view, all the major projects today, infact , are done in groups.(Contradictions??) Of course not, theses are like the parts of machine that work independently to serve a bigger purpose. At IIT, unless we can come up with such projects, it is very difficult to do assignments in groups that could lead to equal progress of minds for all the individuals involved in a group.

2. On the importance of CGPA: I disagree totally with any person who believe that CGPA is not important(This is a from a very practical point of view unlike the first one, which was much more abstract). Unless you are someone completely devoid of the success of others, completely aloof of others where the success or doom of someone has no impact on you, where your self is so strong that you keep yourselves up from the so called world things, CGPA is damn important. The way things are carried out here, CGPA becomes the single most important thing in our life. Why not, out jobs, our interns everything depend on them. There are CGPA cut offs for applying in the best of companies. We, following our seniors and generations before us , have at many times resorted to illegitimate means to increase our grades. Unless we can come up with better criteria for evaluation(which is seriously very difficult unless a “social revolution” is brought up), CGPA is here to stay and no amount of our discussion would change anything( I know this is a very pessimistic point of view, but I guess all of us have learned this the hard way ..)