New Academic Year : Cumulative Updates
Haven’t been updating lately and this post is an accumulation of some importants over that duration.
Accepted Pre-placement Offer from Goldman Sachs
- Will be joining GS as a quant/strat in the Controllers’ Division
- Bengaluru, at least for a couple of years, it is
- So far so good in terms of how the internet portrays it
New academic year
- Into my 7th semester : only a year to go before I complete my Bachelors’ ..
- Do have certain long term goals on my mind going into this academic year
- I usually plan long term on major life events that are specific
to me : birthdays and new academic years
- don’t think I’ll be mentally celebrating a lot of generic festivals in the future
- Not the new christian year kind of planner
- I usually plan long term on major life events that are specific
to me : birthdays and new academic years
- Thankfully, will be pursuing this one on campus and not virtually as
for the last ~2.66 semesters
- on that note ..
Relocating
- travelling from Nashik to Hyderabad today
- posting this from Bombay airport while I wait to board the flight
- first time I’m blogging from some place other than my room
- a lot has changed during the quarantine..
- arrived quite early to avoid morning traffic
- first time I’m blogging from some place other than my room
- posting this from Bombay airport while I wait to board the flight
- will be quarantined this week (5 days) and hence the gym won’t be accessible
- will be exploring some prisoner style workouts
- a lot of high-rep squats and pushups (mostly ballistic in nature)
- will also be trying some quasi-isometric variations to exploit time under tension
- will be exploring some prisoner style workouts
- will be back with people my age and who think somewhat similarly at least in primal ways: expect my behavior to change to some extent as a whole
Information Diet
- Have been re-establishing consumption boundaries and improving
quality for the past few weeks
- slackened post the internship to relax for a bit
- will also be writing a lot more : on this blog and in my observational notebooks as well : will be building that shelf soon
- For some time, I have been into the appeal of historic Indian
scriptures and what wisdom they have to provide but have never
found a good delivery route that is not a burden.
- mostly because they have a Sanskrit component followed by an
interpretation:
- I possibly cannot read that right without some initial effort
- sounds highly paraphrased and some words do not have a transferable counterpart : natural languages are not quite translatable on the microscopic scale
- I did “Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation” by Stephen Mitchell
- Hindi is structurally and genetically much closer to Sanskrit than English
- reading Sanskrit in a roman script is visually displeasing as well
- I possibly cannot read that right without some initial effort
- doing audio-books right now : much better
- Sanskrit -> Hindi for “Chanakya Neeti”
- don’t even need to speed it up : sounds engaging as it is
compared to its English counterparts
- reading Latin-originated books
- listening to Sanskrit-originated audio-books
- mostly because they have a Sanskrit component followed by an
interpretation:
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