School begins
School is beginning in little more than a week- I feel completely unprepared.
No, "unprepared" doesn't mean "reading ahead" so I'm prepared or buying my school supplies- both of which I've done, in fact- but it means more importantly the things I had decided to have done by this time, but haven't finished.
I was going to finish, by the end of August,
- Physics 30
- College Personal Statement
- Extended Essay
What have I actually achieved?
-1 module of Physics 30 (there's 9 in total)
I feel like I've wasted this entire summer. Admittedly, that's a melodramatic statement- especially given summer's are designed to be wasted- but I still feel a nagging feeling of not having accomplished much.
Today, I sat down to make inroads on the pile of work I have, and ended up coming here to type in my blog and tell you exactly what I planned to do. Grade 12 is looking ominous.
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I have a gmail account. This excites me to no end (finally, I can delete my hotmail account!). For those who don't know, Google's new web based e-mail confers several advantages- most significantly, 1000 mb of storage space. Anyone with hotmail or Yahoo is familiar with the frustrations of having to delete e-mails on a continuous basis- incoming e-mails are pulverized before they even arrive.
I really wonder what Hotmail exec's feel about this..... Yahoo for it's part has increased it's storage to 100 MB, I hear- that might keep some customers.
In any case, it's only in limited release now- you have to be invited in order to use it. I got 2 invitations in one day.
The point of this all is that you should all (all) e-mail me at roshan.sethi@gmail.com
Maybe you'll get an invitation ?
_
I wrote another story recently (not the one below) for a city-wide short story contest. Through some strange twist of fate I recieved 2nd Place- this excites me to no end. I may post the story on here- in fact, I may as well just entirely subvert this blog to Story Time.
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I got the sixth book in the Wheel of Time series, The Lord of Chaos. It's one of the more popular Fantasy series- although the author, Robert Jordan, has got readers riled up by the slow pace. It's a pageturner of sorts- the author was one of those who was born to write. He seems to be able to hold multiple threads and storylines and weave them together in an intricate knot that is somewhat astounding.
Somewhat refreshing after having read a deluge of bad authors- Clive Cussler and Dan Brown. Both write so woodenly, apparantly shirking from the use of any prose whatsoever. They have cliched, archetypal dashing hero's (maybe I'm nurturing an inferiority complex) who hook up with different women every single book despite their love-torn dramas with each of them.
Even The Da Vinci Code is something of a sullied memory right now- I avert my eyes and my face crinkles with disgust everytime I see it. I remember approving of the novel shortly after reading it (in one of my posts here)- now all the farflung religious theories that are told with the scholarly authority of an eurdite, are about as meaningless as empty, brown paper bags.
_
I have nothing downloaded or pirated on my computer. Nothing.
It's a strange habit, I suppose, especially for my age. I went to an office store the other day to buy Microsoft Office (yes, I said buy) and the cashier gave me a quizzical look.
At least I know this one won't be infested with virii.
No, "unprepared" doesn't mean "reading ahead" so I'm prepared or buying my school supplies- both of which I've done, in fact- but it means more importantly the things I had decided to have done by this time, but haven't finished.
I was going to finish, by the end of August,
- Physics 30
- College Personal Statement
- Extended Essay
What have I actually achieved?
-1 module of Physics 30 (there's 9 in total)
I feel like I've wasted this entire summer. Admittedly, that's a melodramatic statement- especially given summer's are designed to be wasted- but I still feel a nagging feeling of not having accomplished much.
Today, I sat down to make inroads on the pile of work I have, and ended up coming here to type in my blog and tell you exactly what I planned to do. Grade 12 is looking ominous.
_
I have a gmail account. This excites me to no end (finally, I can delete my hotmail account!). For those who don't know, Google's new web based e-mail confers several advantages- most significantly, 1000 mb of storage space. Anyone with hotmail or Yahoo is familiar with the frustrations of having to delete e-mails on a continuous basis- incoming e-mails are pulverized before they even arrive.
I really wonder what Hotmail exec's feel about this..... Yahoo for it's part has increased it's storage to 100 MB, I hear- that might keep some customers.
In any case, it's only in limited release now- you have to be invited in order to use it. I got 2 invitations in one day.
The point of this all is that you should all (all) e-mail me at roshan.sethi@gmail.com
Maybe you'll get an invitation ?
_
I wrote another story recently (not the one below) for a city-wide short story contest. Through some strange twist of fate I recieved 2nd Place- this excites me to no end. I may post the story on here- in fact, I may as well just entirely subvert this blog to Story Time.
_
I got the sixth book in the Wheel of Time series, The Lord of Chaos. It's one of the more popular Fantasy series- although the author, Robert Jordan, has got readers riled up by the slow pace. It's a pageturner of sorts- the author was one of those who was born to write. He seems to be able to hold multiple threads and storylines and weave them together in an intricate knot that is somewhat astounding.
Somewhat refreshing after having read a deluge of bad authors- Clive Cussler and Dan Brown. Both write so woodenly, apparantly shirking from the use of any prose whatsoever. They have cliched, archetypal dashing hero's (maybe I'm nurturing an inferiority complex) who hook up with different women every single book despite their love-torn dramas with each of them.
Even The Da Vinci Code is something of a sullied memory right now- I avert my eyes and my face crinkles with disgust everytime I see it. I remember approving of the novel shortly after reading it (in one of my posts here)- now all the farflung religious theories that are told with the scholarly authority of an eurdite, are about as meaningless as empty, brown paper bags.
_
I have nothing downloaded or pirated on my computer. Nothing.
It's a strange habit, I suppose, especially for my age. I went to an office store the other day to buy Microsoft Office (yes, I said buy) and the cashier gave me a quizzical look.
At least I know this one won't be infested with virii.
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