It was Saturday, 9th May 2009 – and the weatherman had predicted mostly cloudy weather with highs of around upper 40s and Sun was expected to make a guest appearance or two. About halfway through our first practice session, weather conditions made a fool of weatherman’s prediction and fairy tale like snow flakes gave our [...]

As weird as it might sound, none of the men’s team from my school, Michigan Tech, had ever beaten a men’s team from our arch rivals, Northern Michigan, when I was part of the audience. I thought it had to do with my physical presence in the gym but apparently watching them over the internet [...]

I might sound like a broken record but as happy and excited as I was about ten days ago to be going there, I was equally sad & depressed to be going away from it – at least until the next time, whenever that may be… Looking back at these ten days while I awaited [...]

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It’s hard to believe – at least for me – that it has already been THREE months since I moved to New Jersey, and more importantly, it has been an equally long time since I last tasted beer! With many of my friends graduating (or should I say gradumatating?) from Michigan Tech this Spring, plans [...]

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I am not so sure if you read my previous entry. If you did, you know where I have been. If you did not, please be notified that I have been lost in compilation… Colloquially speaking, I did not see any light anywhere in the tunnel and instead of resorting to some bar (and alcohol), [...]

Well, for about a week since I arrived in Houghton, my body continued to be in some weird timezone but having returned in the Home Coming week and Fall foliage about to peak, I had quite many stuff to entertain myself. After properly unpacking my stuff (& other related work) and taking care of some [...]

As many of my friends have been asking me recently, How did I get involved this thing?. Cutting the long story short, couple of people who organized this workshop are very good friends of mine and we happened to have similar interests. Karen S and Eli had spent numerous hours/days in designing the syllabus, and [...]

Last seven days or so have been quite busy and most of the busyness had to do with school/research work. After exchanging few emails and reading few manuals, I finally managed to run Atomistix Tool Kit (v2.0) on our beowulf cluster. It wasn’t easy by any means and I still have some work to do [...]

Much of the weekend was spent in some relaxation, shoveling snow (I have come to realize that this is a very good exercise – it can make one sweat even when it’s 10 F outside!) and trying to debug the errors associated with execution of parallel version of VASP 4.6.28. However, same errors persisted and [...]

This is something that I had never experienced since I started playing softball, thanks mostly due to the people who introduced me to this wonderful, democratic game and taught me to be patient. While I still was bragging about my in-field home-run, this strike-out, in my 100th plate appearance, against a not-so-powerful team brought me [...]

I have been trying to hit a home-run (in-field, not over the fence) for last three seasons and I did it at last. It was one of the Church League games and I charged towards third-base (while my base-coach was shouting to stop at second). Throw from outfield was wild, helping me get an extra [...]

I came to school early as we had a meeting planned, but it had to be postponed since the Qual-Committee was meeting in the same room. My nervousness had no upper bound and I grew very restless with time. It was just around 12.30 pm that Dr. P put all my nervousness to rest – [...]

Semi-Finals, against MSE : Lots of people, players and supporters alike, showed up at the ball-park and my throwing arm felt lot better. After a brief warm-up session, the much awaited semi-finals started off, with Metallurgy scoring 4 in the first innings. We replied equally well, scoring 8, with 7 coming after we were two-down! [...]

It has been a long time since I got up really early on a Saturday morning and today, I had to because of the Sigma Xi Multi-disciplinary Research Colloquium. It started off early, around 8.30 am and went on till about 1 pm. Almost all presentations were clear, crisp, well thought out and pertained to [...]