<p>no but i plan to meet pa n hayden soon!! juz when hayden moved into his hostel[v.near my house] i moved in nus hostel :(</p>
<p>pa, richa says u are dman fun to be with :D</p>
<p>happy belated independence day ppl!! :)</p>
<p>ok guys here’s a question:
What sort of supplemental stuff did you people send to the Universities and does anyone know about any scholarship or loan sites for internationals.</p>
<p>P.S. Once again i remind you to check my previous posts…No answers yet.</p>
<p><really belated,=“” but,=“” well…=“”>happy bday merc!!!</really></p>
<p>i now think i should’ve taken up ntu…</p>
<p>you should have no doubt shash…and you’d have got thru…guaranteed</p>
<p>why shash what’s wrong with IIT?</p>
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<p>is that the same richa I’m thinking about or someone else?</p>
<p>:eek:</p>
<p>[guilty]You’re in touch with Richa and I (her classmate for 8 years and in the same country for now atleast) am not. [/guilty]</p>
<p>Happy really belated bday merc!!</p>
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wow! the college’s started? how’s the home-sickness? :D</p>
<p>Anyways, frantic days now, my last week in rajkot, packing, meeting everyone and going crazy! and yea, i am one of those whose coll hasn’t started yet :)</p>
<p>have fun</p>
<p>hi</p>
<p>i just wanted to know how did u guys calculate your gpa.</p>
<p>is computer science considered an academic subject (stanford says it only considers ‘acadmeic’ subjects)?</p>
<p>what about the drop in grades which everybody in india has in 11th?</p>
<p>what’s a good gpa?</p>
<p>i’m really worried cuz in 10th i was like 4.0 in the boards - everything above 90%. but in 11th i am like a 3.4.</p>
<p>what’s a good gpa for the ivies, mit, caltech etc?</p>
<p>but despite all this i’ve always been in the top 1% of my class</p>
<p>[edit] what did u guys send in the transcript? school report cards? or did u create a table/list of ur grades and courses and put it on a school letterhead and send it? [/edit]</p>
<p>The first electrical switch made entirely from carbon nanotubes has been unveiled. Its inventors hope that it could help to replace silicon chips with faster, cheaper, smaller components.</p>
<p>The device is a Y-shaped nanotube that behaves like a transistor, such as those found in every electronic device in your home. Current flowing from one branch to another can be switched on and off by applying a voltage to the third. The switching is perfect - the current is either on or off, with nothing in between.</p>
<p>“The small size and dramatic switching behaviour of these nanotubes makes them candidates for a new class of transistor,” says P. Bandaru, a materials scientist at the University of California, San Diego, who led the team of inventors.</p>
<p>The scientists make their Y-shaped nanotubes by adding a titanium-iron catalyst to a pot of straight nanotubes while they are growing. When a catalyst particle sticks to the side of a nanotube, it forms the base of a new branch, they report in Nature Materials.</p>
<p>Conventional transistors are built from layers of semiconducting materials, such as silicon. Better manufacturing methods have led to ever-smaller chips, packing enormous amounts of computing power into desktop machines.</p>
<p>But as the components shrink, they start to leak electrical current. This causes overheating, wastes power, and can make some switches read ‘on’ when they should be ‘off’. It seems that the silicon chip cannot get much smaller.</p>
<p>So scientists are looking for ways to make carbon nanotubes do the same job. These rolled up sheets of carbon atoms conduct electricity and take up a lot less room than silicon circuits, measuring just a few billionths of a metre across.</p>
<p>Nanotubes can also be made using cheaper chemical methods that avoid the laborious layering and etching used to make today’s circuits. “This allows us to go for devices with much smaller size but much more complex functionalities,” explains Hongqi Xu, a physicist from Lund University in Sweden.</p>
<p>Scientists have already made logic circuits using nanotubes, but these required metal ‘gates’ to control the flow of charge. Making such devices requires several steps, so it is unlikely that they could compete economically with conventional electronics, says Xu.</p>
<p>But the gates in the new device are part of the nanotube’s structure, making it fully self-contained, explains Bandaru. He adds that the catalyst particle sitting at the centre of the nanotube could be tweaked to change the switching properties of the device - making it switch at different voltages, for example.</p>
<p>The team is now trying to extend the alphabet of branched nanotubes with T- and X-shapes that could allow different functions.</p>
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<p>“what’s a good gpa for the ivies, mit, caltech etc?
but despite all this i’ve always been in the top 1% of my class
[edit] what did u guys send in the transcript? school report cards? or did u create a table/list of ur grades and courses and put it on a school letterhead and send it? [/edit]”</p>
<p>I can comment only about MIT.</p>
<p>“Admission to MIT is more than a set of numbers, scores and grades”. And this is true!</p>
<p>They take into consideration many other factors like your aptitude for research and this is very important if you are aiming for engineering or science, but may not be important for economics, I think. Laila can comment on this better.</p>
<p>I had asked my principal to put my grades also into the last column of the Secondary School Report’s courses taken list. This worked, as International students are not to send Mid-Year Grade reports with the Part-2 of the application.</p>
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<p>After reading about so many Independence day wishes for one another, somethings still make me wonder. Like the following, for example:</p>
<ul>
<li>Dalit woman not allowed to hoist national flag
<a href=“http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1202862.cms[/url]”>http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1202862.cms</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Read the editorial Page of Times of India on August 15, 2005. The TOI is not known for such editorials, especially on an Independence Day, which are usually the notes of The Hindu Newspaper. </p>
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<p>yes shabin i read that article…</p>
<p>and thanks pa, such, shash, adi et al… for the bday wishes :)</p>
<p>so…
how about we all post when we are leaving?</p>
<p>ME: AUG 26th ex-Delhi, though I’ll leave my home town on 23rd.</p>
<p>^ similar dates!
I am leaving on AUG 27th (thats 2 AM, think it can be considered as 26th!)
will leave my home town on 22nd…PARTY TIME IN MUMBAI!!! :D</p>
<p>I am leaving on the 4th one of the last to leave i guess …</p>
<p>I’m leaving on the 4th too.</p>
<p>I’m leaving on the 29th… Just a day before orientation…</p>
<p>happy bday merc. belated. sorry. but there you have it</p>
<p>have a great time at IUB</p>
<p>and keep bloggin :)</p>
<p>shx</p>
<p>omg merc, so sorry…happy belated birthday!!! 
<em>thinks of chocolate cake</em>
so iub set huh?? hmmm, wonder if i wud ahve gone there if i had applied n if gotten in… :p</p>
<p>anyway, amn livin in hostle is SOOOOOOO DISTRACTIN!!! i have so much work n have yet to start…or well it seems lots cos i have yet to start… :s</p>
<p>anjali, no girl i am talkin abt smu richa who went with u n others to embassy dat day…she is my exclassmate n all…:)</p>
<p>could anybody please post or email me their recommendations, essays etc.</p>
<p>thanx.</p>
<p>leaving tomorrow…</p>