New Academic Year : Cumulative Updates

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Haven’t been updating lately and this post is an accumulation of some importants over that duration.

Accepted Pre-placement Offer from Goldman Sachs

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
Thankfully, will be pursuing this one on campus and not virtually as for the last ~2.66 semesters
- on that note ..

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
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 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

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
- 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