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Careers I have considered

DREAM JOB:

Professional writer.  Like Popular Science writer.  Or a blogger.

Biologist. Improving humans via augmentations.  Saving the world from cancer, etc.

National Geographic photographer.  Partly because of this amazing video.

Industrial designer.  Like Sir Jonathan Ive.  Still one of my dream job.  When I retire, I want to buy a giant 3-D printing machine.  I’ll dream up designs in AutoCAD, and I’ll create whatever I want.

Navy SEAL.  Scuba-diving, snorkeling, and stealthy missions via submarines are really fun.  Not so keen on the enduring-unimaginable-hardship part.

Starving artist.  Doesn’t sound so bad, except for the starving part.

Graphic designer.  Saving the Gotham City from DC Comics.

Computer scientist.  Maybe if I take Computational Mathematics, I could combine this with my love of Aerospace.

Interestingly, I’ve never felt any desire to become a doctor.  I guess I lack that section of the Indian genome.

However, I got the 'engineer' section, as I'm studying to become a Rocket scientist.  Like Tony Stark (if you're wondering, he's Iron Man.

Data analytics is getting pretty fascinating these days! Wish I had the time to take more courses

"Spend my days locked in a haze Trying to forget you babe I fall back down"

Cool photos

Last Launch by Dan Winters

it’s strange what desire will make foolish people do 

Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had.

Italo Calvino, from Invisible Cities (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974)

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It's not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you

Batman Begins

ASTRO PHOTO

A peek into the sky.

Just used my DLSR and some tweaks (no cheating, meaning no Photohop filters)

Color in this photo is used to highlight interesting features of the celestial object being seen. It is added to the separate black-and-white exposures that are combined to make the final image.

Filters allow variety of wavelengths of light to be visible to our eye. Since the cameras can detect light outside the visible light spectrum, the use of filters allows scientists to study "invisible" features of objects — those only visible in ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths.

by the way, the only way to see stars from New York City is by using a DSLR/telescope

transition from pencils to pens

^ my physics notes

This semester, I switched from pencils to pens. I have been using pencils for the past two semesters. At that time, I could never understand people (fellow classmates) who use pens. You can’t erase with pens – it’s like using a bad old typewriter, if you make a mistake it stays forever.

However, now I understand the profoundness of using a pen!. Pens are almost frictionless. They glide effortlessly over the pages like a zero-volume mass sliding down a frictionless decline. Using a pen feels like you’re saving nano-joules of energy due to fewer friction. The experience of using a pen is unparalleled to that provided by any pencil I’ve ever used. Pencils are TI-10s. Pens are TI-89s. So, wonder why I stopped using pens two semesters ago?

A little history, I sometimes try to be perfectionist. I always try to perfect my MATLAB codes; it gives a pleasure while I attempt to make it concise as possible. However, over the course of my education, I’ve gotten a lot better of turning off my perfectionist tendencies — like when the professor alters the notes after I copy it down. Before, I would have erased it — with the eraser-end of my pencil, of course. Now, I don’t have to. I feel like it’s less efficient; it takes around 5 seconds to erase few words, while it only takes a second to draw a line across the same few words.  So what if I wrote “Kircoff’s rule” instead of “Kirchhoff’s rule”? Well, when I go back to my notes, I would still understand it, and if I don’t know to how to spell it, Google’s “Did you mean….” will save me.

Just the other day, I submitted my Physics (Electricity and Magnetism) problem set. I had few scratchings across some calculations, but I became more conscience later on. You might wonder this would have created a bad impression. Guess what happened after I got it back? Absolutely nothing. I’m pretty sure my professor didn’t care at all and has completely forgotten it, unless he reads this post.  

This shows that I’m really putting my education to great efficiency and doing some Calculus constraining (and also some probability). After putting time fixing my slight errors, I’ve already reached the point of diminishing returns. The slightly decreased probability of something going wrong just isn’t worth the additional time I’d spend to attain it.

I am not on a discriminative drive towards perfectionism (although it wasted too much time), but I think perfectionism shouldn’t be applied to less important things. I think pencils are great (wait, don’t think I’m contradicting) but only for sketching! Pencils, used wrongly, will more likely to obfuscate people than enlighten them. Finally, to me it is a rapture to be a pen person now.