Author: akshay
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Are You Cool if You Perform Bad in Your Duties?
It is not cool that you don’t touch your textbooks. Seriously. I’ve hundreds (literally) of friends who when asked how studies are say "Who cares?" maybe because they actually don’t care, or maybe just to appear cool. But it’s just painful. To think that not studying properly, having fun all the time, makes one cool…
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What Ails Our Higher Education? Let’s Stop Blaming The System
This post is intended to supplement the post of the same title in SVYM founder’s blog. "Simple living and high thinking" was Gandhiji’s motto. But most of the Indians have failed to imbibe that. And that’s indirectly led to all problems we are facing today. Education, from the elementary level, is failing to make children…
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Second year!
Finally, college reopened on Monday. This year, there are four subjects to write exams in 1. Pharmacology The introduction class of which I’m in, right now. All those tablets, starting with Paracetamol 😛 Note: meghna’s mom is our ma’am in this department. 2. Pathology No introduction class yet, dunno what it is about 😛 3.…
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First Year Result
Finally the day arrived. And I scraped the website using iMacros for firefox and data import into openoffice calc. Click here for the result. Sowmya S Aithal tops with 770
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Best Case of Wrong Time Distribution
Here’s a vacation that’s just crossed a month. It’s not absolutely boring. But it’s relatively boring to be at home. It’s right I get to do things that I love and don’t normally get to do, but even if you love sugar you’d not take in a bowl of sugar with water. Here is how…
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Is Corruption All? : A Look into the Real World Problems in Government Offices
There seems to be a consensus on the idea that all problems that we face in our governmental system is due to corruption. This anecdote might help you see some other complicated and routine sides of the “efficiency” issue of our offices. My dad is a medical officer, and he told me this story last…
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Be Fearless
“Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.” ~Vivekananda What is the root of all miseries in the world? Worries. Why do we worry? We are afraid something will happen. Fear. What is one major reason we fear? We have done something wrong,…
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Proactive Change
There are 3 kinds of people. Let’s call them versions 1, 2 and 3. Version 1: won’t change These are the people who hold on to their pasts. Once they are labeled something, based on something that they did or something that they told; they tend to retain that feature forever. Change is not a…
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Complaining about Rape
All you idiots out there who want to castrate the guys who molested the girl in Guwahati, your anger is misdirected. It’s not their fault, it is not the girl’s fault, it’s your fault that your society has problems regarding sexuality. And that’s because you fail to talk about it. You consistently fail. And you…
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Biochem practical
The prospect of finishing first year was over compensating for the lack of breakfast today. The awesome mnemonic I made for protein tests* had no use as I got my permanent question since second internal: pathological constituent of urine. There was blood, bile salts in it. The questions were as expected: which are the tests…