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Technically, it’s 3 weekends into summer, but I consider this my “first”, since it’s the only one where I’ve had time for myself. A brief summary ensues. San Diego Beach This Saturday, we managed to get ourselves down to the beach (just barely mind you). Before I jump ahead, “ourselves” is Nachiketas (from IIT KGP), Gauri Joshi (from IIT Bombay), Kishore Jaganathan (from IIT Madras) and myself. It began on a pretty bad note with an unprecedented lack of coordination (read 2 hour synchronisation mis-match). The beaches were nice. Not being a “beach” person, I really don’t know what more to say. Having a soft spot of water bodies, I found the ocean simply breathtaking, and had a ear-to-ear smile for most of that part of the trip. Few random strew of words to describe the rest of the trip: creepy bulbous green sea plants, Burger King, long bus rides, arbit pointless trolley ride (we went around in a circle just for the heck of it), cooking rice. ...

Gee whiz, it’s been 2 weeks since the end semester exams finished. And perhaps a half a week since the semester actually ended (thanks to the current CSE setup at IIT Madras). And so much to update on. The Semester Firstly, the end semester exams went off without too much of a hitch. They were definitely the most “peaced-out” end semesters I’ve written, though I ended up staying up till 3-4 a.m. for almost all the exams (including HS!). All in all I am happy with what I’ve taken away from the semester in all but the maths course (Probability and Random Processes) which was a farce to begin with. For those not in the loop, there were 205 students in 1 class, being taught by a cynical professor who didn’t care the least bit about the student’s comprehension. It was definitely the most enjoyable semester we’ve had yet (with the exception of the maths course that is). ...