<p>my dad is very, very protective. HE won’t even let me stay in a dorm at College?!</p>
<p>Oh and that’s along with OCW and the rest. Major, major use of OCW though. It’s a brilliant idea! 
I’ve never used chat acronyms really, gtg is the only one I use, and that’s only because it’s actually useful.</p>
<p>“I’ve just got used to being archaic, soon I’ll be an anachronism :D”</p>
<p>Physics Gods? Moi? 
Nah, I just like sounding intelligent, and I’ve got a soft spot for things quantum. (Maybe it’s the random nature of the subatomic world that attracts me. :))</p>
<p>I’ve actually used plenty of stuff from OCW, all that’s pretty awesome</p>
<p>I like subatomics - just hate mechanics</p>
<p>No, wait, I abhor mechanics</p>
<p>You know after all the talking about physics that I’m doing, my paper’s going to be something conceived in an IIT alumnus’s twisted head that’ll be the cause of scorn and derision from exam takers all over India. (I rather like the sound of that sentence)</p>
<p>just liking something isn’t enough… it’s one thing to know something and quite another to really play wid it</p>
<p>we haven’t done that in Physics yet, but I already know most of it</p>
<p>so, I can’t play with nothin’ yet</p>
<p>well, I’ve read The Brief History of Time, A Short History of Nearly Everything, and some book on thinking machines that I bought on sale at MIT Press. Does that count as “I like science”?</p>
<p>I’m halfway through “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” :D. Wonderful book.</p>
<p>I hate mechanics too. Subatomics is fun. So is astrophysics.</p>
<p>If we had a debating club in my school, I’d have joined. We didn’t have ANY clubs in my school. I love to argue. :'(.</p>
<p>I’m going to join Mock Trial at wherever I go.</p>
<p>Wow, that’s kinda weird. Where will you stay if not in a dorm?</p>
<p>Shrivats just declared war on our behalf with The Chinese Thread :<.</p>
<p>Also, I don’t wanna be a thread killer.</p>
<p>SO TALK.</p>
<p>With Chem tomorrow, sure… :D</p>
<p>I’m celebrating the end of my Board Exams.:D</p>
<p>Technically speaking there’s still almost a whole month to go but since I like all the subjects that are left I don’t really have any problem preparing/studying for them. :)</p>
<p>Chem is done and dusted. Woohoo! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D</p>
<p>I like declaring war. :D</p>
<p>Is there anybody with any objection to introducing bas to The Chinese Thread?</p>
<p>You’re a genius, Shrivats. I have no objection at all, atlthough to be fair to bad, he’s talked only when he had something to say, today.</p>
<p>I just have math and a whole lot of competitive exams left. I took a day off studying today.</p>
<p>Good luck on Chem.</p>
<p><em>sneeeerk</em> Oh yes, go ahead!</p>
<p>I spent four hours on Bio today. <em>shifty</em> (I suck at it, okay? Need all the work I can possibly put in.) </p>
<p>And to Shrivats – have you seen the pocket particle data book that CERN has? (Google it, you’ll find it. It’s distributed by the Particle Data Group in the US, but CERN delivers to Europe/Asia.) It’s free, and it is Awesome Thing. I carry mine around. </p>
<p>Also, symmetry magazine. (Again, Google is thine friend – sorry, too lazy to search right now, brain has been fried by the Calvin cycle.) Also free, also delivered anywhere-in-the-world, published by Fermilab and the SLAC. </p>
<p>Subatomics is fun and I love it and want to do it in college (ditto, Shrivats – if I get in anywhere decent, my entire summer is going to be spent on OCW and Caltech’s course material, reading like crazy), but I have to put in a good word for mechanics. It just makes sense, really.</p>
<p>Edit – to Kriti, go and read Feynman’s actual physics books. If you can sit through them, consider a physics major. 
(Just kidding. Seriously, though, they’re great. If you really, really like Physics and want to be in over-your-head in calculus and whatnot.)</p>
<p>You have Bio on the 13th, my next real exam is on the 22nd :).</p>
<p>Maybe later, Noldo. I plan to read 24 / 7 this summer.</p>
<p>I can relate to the brain fried experience :D. For Bio, have a look here, <a href=“http://www.johnkyrk.com/[/url]”>http://www.johnkyrk.com/</a> It might not be for your syllabus, but trust me, you can spend hours there :)</p>
<p>Much of what we (Shri and I) know of particle physics is through trawling of the wiki; we’ve been saving up this summer for doing a lot of what we’ve wanted to do for a while; thanks for the reco, they sound fascinating. :)</p>
<p>wow, yummy… </p>
<p>Hey Shrivats… first of all, I dont like autocratic communist regimes who manipulate economic data to prove themselves and even their mathematicians are horrible (in case u read Sylvia Nassar’s article in the New Yorker)… </p>
<p>Hi Curly… thanks, I do flame but that’s for fun and nobody gets the humor… </p>
<p>“Something to Say” I don’t like to say something very significant on an online forum where I’m supposed not to reveal my real name etc… though u probably ended up knowing my hometown (plz dont reveal… security reasons)…</p>
<p>And I (the number geek) cant resist the temptation of screwing up a noveau thread intent on increasing their post count… but not all are as nice as Issac (hi Issac) and there’s great probabilty the my ID will be deleted…</p>
<p>In that case, I’ll visit TiT wid a new ID and “Junior Member” tag :-(</p>
<p>Off I Go…</p>
<p>Good Bye…</p>
<p>By the way, anyone else find that when you refresh a page you get taken to an old page in the thread’s history (something like 182?), just some more proof (if we ever needed it) that the CC servers can’t cope!</p>