The Indian Thread (TiT) # 15

International Students
3521

<p>Noldo, I much appreciate it. Akka. I haven’t been called Kriti akka much. My niece is an Army officer’s kid, so she speaks in Hindi mostly.</p>

<p>Another irrelevant rambling: People always assume I’m North Indian, and keep talking to me in Hindi, and I can barely speak it. I don’t have a South accent, and I’m kinda fairer than the average South Indian, I guess (I’m not really fair), and ti bugs the hell out of me.</p>

<p>I have had a teacher in swearing. My friend from my blog (he’s 21, U of MN: Twin Cities) decided I couldn’t swear properly (after a heated angry post) and taught me how to swear effectively. So, yeah I pwn swearing :)</p>

3522

<p>I love to argue too! In mentioning my ECs I sort of concentrated on Debating & Robotics. Primarily because they were practically all that I did in school and also because I happened to be very good at them. :p</p>

<p>EDIT: I wrote about speaking/debating in my Common App short answer.</p>

3523

<p>I realize looking back that I’ve made a mistake. The aforementioned incident happened to K, not to me. :P</p>

<p>You see, the thing is, we’ve developed a sort of twin mythology of incidents that we both dip into from time to time.</p>

<p>E.g. (or exempli gratia, as I’ve promised to write it in my boards :D)</p>

<p>The time we lost our passports in the African Savannah, or the time we entered Germany without a passport and were nearly arrested. :)</p>

3524

<p>Mine was about computers, and I applied as a Comp Sc. major. Woo?</p>

3525

<p>And no, I’m not elucidating that, nor am I a felon (thank God, I’d have to have written another essay in that case.) Let it remain a mystery forever…</p>

3526

<p>In that case, you’re unique Kriti. (Must not end in ellipsis, must not end in ellipsis…) :D</p>

3527

<p>CBSE people! have u finished exam prep</p>

3528

<p>No, we haven’t.</p>

<p>I’m going to go write a blog entry. Anyone who cares to IM me?</p>

3529

<p>Pshaw, who said chances threads were the Dark Side?* Ellipses are the true tools of evil.</p>

<ul>
<li>– well, I know who it was. It was me. But let’s ignore that for dramatic effect, shall we?</li>
</ul>

3530

<p>And just for the record, the ISC people haven’t either. (And aren’t going to, judging by the amount of time we’re spending here :D)</p>

3531

<p>And re. CBSE, I’m ready for Maths and English, not so much for Chem and Bio. Working my posterior off, though.</p>

3532

<p>I currently have an allergy and a running nose. And I just took a tablet. And I’m IMing my friends and blogging after a looooooooooong time.</p>

3533

<p>My Caltech essay was about my attempts at creating a Robot that could play Basketball(for some odd reason it would almost always miss the basket), how my Robots helped me understand Physics better(I verified quite a few of the laws that we learn in Physics through my Robots :D), how I nearly taught my computer to play Chess. The stupid thing would run into an infinite loop if I played better than a 2-year old. It was basically an essay of failed attempts and pointless successes.</p>

<p>EDIT: My posts seem so incoherent.</p>

3534

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<p>So is there a false tool of evil then? (The inner pedant emerges…)</p>

<p>…</p>

3535

<p>should I curly? :-)</p>

3536

<p>3535 looks nice… whew</p>

3537

<p>Oh we’re ready, if we weren’t, we wouldn’t be here. It’s just that we don’t like saying we’re ready. (Makes one unpopular you see. :)) What we have left is that pre-exam preparation which is more for self-upliftment (You know it all!) than for anything else.</p>

3538

<p>Lakshya – my Caltech essay was a chronicle of all the things I messed up or fooled around with, sans even the cheer of a pointless success. :D</p>

<p>Shrivats – Oh dear God. </p>

<p>The M20. <em>nod</em> It’s pretending to be evil, but it actually isn’t. (And I realise this will make no sense to anyone here, but hah.)</p>

<p>Also, I consider myself genuinely unready, in the sense that if I wrote the exam this minute I wouldn’t make a 90+. Luckily, I’m a quick reader.</p>

3539

<p>Oh dear God post 3537 or 3534? Not that it matters, I just like knowing what I’m being Oh dear God at’th for.</p>

3540

<p>at’th being a linguistic construct similar to nth. (a voiceless fricative really :))</p>