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Name: Harish
Birthday: 7/7/1987
Gender: Male
Interests: Tennis, Basketball, Football, Video Games, Finding Someone or Something to Really Care About
Expertise: Knowing what I shouldn't and not knowing what I should
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  tenace87
Member Since:
11/18/2004
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| Long weekend. Where to begin? Friday involved a night at the hospital. Patrick elbowed Roger in the face during Bball, so the three of us + Karthik headed over to Huntington. Crazy stuff including: the cafeteria pulling a C-Store, Patrick asking Roger "what his mom does," and Roger making a bunch of hilarious comments in the waiting room. Saturday was Projekt Revolution. It was sweet. Taking Back Sunday, My Chemical Romance, and Linkin Park were all awesome. We got there around 1 and left about 11. But not before getting rear ended on the way out. Luckily, we had Karthik's smart mouth on our side to deal with the folks who yelled at us while we were pulled over on the side of the road. "You're stupid." "You're ugly." Classic. Went to Conrad's afterward for late night food/crazy talk. Good times. Not much else...almost time to head back to Houston again. Should be fun. Peace y'all. | | |
| Long time! What's happened: Finished Sophomore Year (finally!), started summer research, brother visited Cali, went to Universal with cousin, went to Disneyland with family, went home, stopped being a teenager (woohoo 20!), came back here Summer's almost halfway done  But the summer life's good. Sure there's work, but there's also time to just hang out with the people I see every day during the year but never get to know. I wonder if it's Caltech or insomnia that I can't sleep at 2:30 am? Not even sure why these speak to me: No I'll stand my ground, won't be turned around
And I'll keep this world from draggin me down
gonna stand my ground
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| Germany's awesome, and Berlin's a cool city! One of the things I love
about European cities is how everyone walks everywhere, and the cities
are built for walking, not driving. The only city I've been to like
that in America is NYC, which is special in its own right.
The Conference is not at all what I expected. I had an image of what
scientific conferences would be like, and this isn't really it at all.
Whatevs, it still beats going to normal classes.
Big talk tomorrow...I picked a great time to start getting nervous. I
didn't realize the hall was so big or that so many people attended
these talks. Should be fun though.
When I get back, there'll only be one more week of classes. I'm almost
a Junior? Where did those two years go? So much has happened, but it
still feels like just yesterday I was building boats and playing ping
pong/foosball at frosh camp.
Something deeper later? Or maybe not, I like internalizing a lot of my
thoughts and just mulling them over in my own head. It seems to make
more sense that way.
Peace y'all
EDIT
The talk was...interesting. A few highlights:
1. There were -even more- people than at the previous oral session I
went to! A room for about 300 was almost 80-90% full. I used to love
big audiences, but this crowd just made me nervous because all of them
had doctorates and they were turning out to listen to me?
2. I was introduced as "Dr. Vasudevan." Even though I told the meeting
chair (I made it pretty explicit) that I had no degree and was just an
undergrad. I guess they didn't believe me? haha
3. I went through my slides way too fast. What should've been a 10 minute talk ended at about 9. Great.
4. I got asked three questions. The first one was a shortcoming of my
study that I completely forgot to mention, but had thought about
before. The second one was retarded: he asked me why I didn't do a
calculation that was completely unrelated to the rest of my study. The
third question owned me; I had no idea calcium handling in the heart
was so complicated, and I tried to BS my way through an answer but the
guy who was asking me turned out to be a cardiologist...
5. I met Weiss (who I think is at JHU). He basically wrote the book on
a lot of cardiac MRI stuff so it was exciting to meet him in person.
It's cool to cite a paper and be like "yup, i've met the man who wrote
this"
6. My mentor at Tech (Mike) was there, as was all the people from
Robia's lab back home who were still around...nice to be supported.
They agreed with my analysis of the questions I got asked, but didn't
think I went through my slides too fast (they thought it was a
reasonable pace).
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| Tennis is over, work piles up, just finding time to take a breath is a chore...
I helped interview Gary Lorden not too long ago for CURJ. One of the
things that he said stuck with me: "Don't let Caltech get you down."
It's funny that today, I read that 1 in 1000 Tech graduates have
received Nobel Prizes. That means I'll prolly meet a future Nobel
Laureate in my time here...intense.
Short and sweet (I guess not really sweet) is what my entries are these days. Peace y'all.
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| In 120, I've learned that people with a V1 (Primary Visual Cortex) can
still have visual dreams. That means that even though they can't see
while they're awake, in real life, they can have normal dreams. That
would be really depressing...being able to see only in your dreams...
Then again, if all your dreams were happy, maybe it wouldn't be so bad?
But a dream's a dream, and not reality. And knowing that must suck for these people.
Part of why I want to be a doctor or at least do medicalish research.
To help people like that, to give a chance to people who must feel so
hopeless.
Then again, sometimes those kinds of people end up having the most hope.
Lots to chew on. Last week of tennis. First time I've ever been glad tennis season was ending...
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