Category: Blog

I’m very impressed by FIFA’s ability to create a new mode, but more crucially, by the fact that Hans Zimmer did the score for this.

Stepping away from things is important. To respect people’s wishes, but also, to give yourself the time and space that you need to figure out things.

I’ve finally got a weekend free in college. It’s not something I’m used to so I’m not entirely sure how to spend the time. It’s very likely that I will sleep, and not do much else. I need that.

I watched this episode with my mum and the song really stuck in my head. This interpretation has been something that’s been widely debated, but the portrayal, this scene, the music, it’s all incredible:

The consequences of everything I did are consequences I am scared of, but are the consequences I must face. There are hits I’m taking. At the moment I am incredibly grateful for my parents’ support through all this. They’re reminding me about ownership and responsibility, and that is all that matters to me at the moment. And learning.

I’ve made mistakes over the last day and a half. I’m uncertain how to come to terms with them – because they feel very uncharacteristic of me. I would rather not blog about them, but that would be dishonest. I will tell you this, however, world: I’m going to confront these errors I’ve committed. I’m distraught at the moment, but I’m apologetic, and I’m going to take some time to work on becoming better.

The blogging might stop for a few days as a result, but I will upload media that I find fascinating, that I wish to share with you.

In the interim, I’m recording my thoughts on Word and I’ll upload them onto the internet in due course.

Today was a better day than yesterday because no tabs crashed, our tournament ran on time, and we pulled off TGD the way TGD is meant to be pulled off. For all of that and more – including the kindest gifts from amazing juniors, and a farewell performance that is indescribable, I am grateful to this University.

I will miss these people when I leave, and I will miss this place.

Today has been an absolutely awful day, so I’m not going to write much. Personal downsides aside, the server (heroku) that ran Tabbycat, the software we were tabulating on, crashed. Right when we generated the draw for our second round. Now I’m not sure if this makes any sense to a non-debater, but we essentially lost one round of scoring and data on the internet, thanks to my reliance exclusively on the internet.

I feel awful, and although we’ve now created a plan for tomorrow and we’ve rebooted the tournament on a software that is designed to work offline, and is a software I am extremely comfortable with, I am scared, and feel horrible at the moment.

One day to go. The OLT’s are coming here, and they’re coming hard and fast at us. We’ve just spent the evening with the beautiful tabbycat, setting up for what should be an excellent tournament for everyone in my batch.

To everyone that made it through 5 editions: congratulations. We’re here.

I took a day off from University today to understand the intricacies of a tabbing/tabulation system I wanted to ensure I got to terms with prior to the beginning of our annual debating tournament. I really love numbers, and participating in tabulation/scoring activities have given me the opportunity to go through my time at University fully immersed in statistics. Of course, it isn’t the same as having the opportunity to study Math everyday, but the limited engagement I get is enough for me to sustain an interest in its academic study.

Subreddits on the beauty of data, and following sports in general add to that engagement. I do really miss numbers in my daily life. They used to be so integral (see what I did there) to my daily schedule every single day at school. Not only because of the number of hours we spent with them – through all my Sciences and even a bit in Economics, but also through the hours I spent poring over past papers and question sets. It’s no wonder I attempted to convince my parents to allow me to study for a BSc somewhere in the middle of my second year. I’m glad they showed me reason at the time.

Eventually I do hope I get the chance to return to working with numbers one day. Till then, tabbycat, you are my only friend.

Today was productive. I slept in class – not because I had a sleep-deficit, but because I wished to sleep. I paid attention and took notes in classes I wanted to.

But post-class I had a ball. I know I’ve been gushing about this new timetable, but really – it is marvelous. Post 3 I worked on a bunch of things I wanted to finish before the day was done.

At night I met with some people I wanted to meet for Debate work. That debating mood is really sinking in now, which is marvelous. People in my batch are working around getting things set up for that and figuring out how exactly to pass on information to juniors. It’s going to be wicked seeing how they take the tournament forward. I still remember being asked by RG to do some kutti t-shirts work in my first year. It was my first interaction with him, and TGD weekend has been a highlighted memory ever since.

In other news my electricity ports are fixed now, so I can work out of my room like I did earlier. If I figure out the laundry system on campus (for ironing), my life will be wholesome again.