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June 5th, 2008
Dowloading Knowledge
“Will SCs and STs get to download 30 per cent of the information before the rest of us get a shot?” ROTFL. Prem Panicker on an article that implies that we will be downloading information directly into our brains making schools obsolete and in turn makes the common mistake of confusing information with knowledge.
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April 24th, 2008
The world’s youngest professor
Alia Sabur, 19, recently joined Konkuk University, South Korea…as a professor. Her brief biography is remarkable and contains more achievements than any average person on the planet let alone a 19-year-old [via].
April 18th, 2008
How to be a good graduate student
Ask Metafilter has a fantastic list of responses to the question - how to be a good graduate student [via Kyun]. It may be helpful to a lot of readers of this blog that the student asking the question is a desi. The education experience in India and the United States especially in higher education [...]
April 3rd, 2008
Guide to Writing your Dissertation Proposal
This informal draft of a guide [PDF link] on writing a dissertation might be quite useful for doctoral students. I find the earlier parts about writing a dissertation proposal quite insightful as I am doing exactly that right now.
Patrix | Asides, education | 2 Comments »
March 19th, 2008
Does your life follow this path?
[source] Frighteningly true. I feel like living in the Truman Show.
January 28th, 2008
School Vouchers in India
Ash and I have been looking for avenues to donate money to charity in India. Our previous personal donations have gone to AID India and Project Why in addition to those donation drives at DesiPundit. We prefer donating to more direct causes instead of large organizations like Red Cross which are already inundated with attention [...]
Patrix | India, education | 2 Comments »
January 21st, 2008
Our Skewed Research Interests
Sigh! So true especially the 18% slice [click to enlarge - source: PhD Comics].
October 19th, 2007
Admission Quotas for White Kids
‘Legacy’ admissions for white kids are in fact more unfair (in terms of merit) than affirmative action for minorities in colleges and universities [via]. George Bush is a prime example. In India, such legacy admissions are called management seats which are simply auctioned off to the highest bidder. So much for merit, eh?
Patrix | Asides, United States, education | Comments Off
October 17th, 2007
The PhD Candidate
First, being a PhD candidate is vastly different from a Manchurian Candidate or at least we like to think so. Second, I am finally one. i.e a PhD candidate not the other one. I cleared one of the first hurdles that haunts most doctoral students, freeing me finally to work on my dissertation and put [...]
Patrix | Personal, education | 11 Comments »
October 1st, 2007
Blogging scholarship
CollegeScholarships.org is offering a $10000 that can be used to pay your college tuition fee, books or other expenses. Unfortunately, the scholarship is restricted to US residents only which is a bit amusing but let’s not complain about this too much.
The whole premise of this scholarship is very interesting. The scholarship is not meant for [...]
July 20th, 2007
Sex Education Done Wrong
Sex education has been making the news lately; not that it never fails to when it pops up in conversations. Barack Obama was at the Planned Parenthood Conference and remarked that sex education was the right thing to do for kindergarteners and added that it should be age-appropriate and meant primarily to help kids guard [...]
Patrix | Health, India, Society Culture, education | 7 Comments »
June 15th, 2007
Control, yaar
If it were up to few adults, we would be considered a nation of sex crazed children waiting to jump our classmates’ and indulge in some heavy petting if not outright sexual congress. Sexual congress? yeah! such archaic terms suit the news I am about to reveal. Two schools in Mumbai (yup, not some mofussil [...]
Patrix | India, Society Culture, United States, education | 9 Comments »
May 20th, 2007
Academic Bureaucratic Efficiency
We often associate bureacracy and red tape which gives us dreadful images of long lines and corrupt babus. But in that light it is often refreshing to see speedy resolution of matters and efficient handling of matters by an organization that is almost a state body. Of course, I am referring to my university. Here [...]
Patrix | Personal, Technology, education | 8 Comments »
May 9th, 2007
Education is not free
Although it has nothing to do with my professional life, I am deeply interested in education. Perhaps it is because I have essayed the role of a student for a long time now although in a broader sense of the word, we all never stop learning. Or perhaps it is because of the role of [...]
Patrix | Governance, India, United States, education | 4 Comments »
April 17th, 2007
The Virginia Tech Tragedy
Professor G V Loganathan and architecture student Minal Panchal were two Indian victims in the Virginia Tech shooting. We all share the great sense of loss at their tragic death.
Patrix | Current Affairs, United States, education | 11 Comments »
April 3rd, 2007
Stephen Hawking and Rudy Giuliani to speak at Texas A&M
Two different eminent personalities are coming down to Texas A&M this month for two different reasons. I plan to attend both lectures since I have missed most of the events this semester. The availability of such lectures is one of the perks of being at a nationally renowned university in spite of being located in [...]
Patrix | Politicking, Science, United States, education | 5 Comments »
April 2nd, 2007
Florida and Ohio State - NCAA National Championship Monopoly
What’s with both sports - football and basketball - national championships being contested by Florida and Ohio State? If Florida, thanks to that kid of Yannick Noah win tonight to conclude the March Madness, they will have the unique honor of being football and basketball national champions in the same year. Mind you, being a [...]
Patrix | Sports, education | 9 Comments »
March 26th, 2007
Stupid Dreams
Sigh! So true. Especially the last panel. I wish I knew [click to enlarge; source.]
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Movies I've Watched...
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2008-09-02 21:00
Explores the brother-sister relationship brought together during their father's last days.
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2008-09-01 21:00
Poignant but slow narrative of an orphaned girl living with her aunt in rural Maharashtra.
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2008-08-09 23:00
Stunning and engaging narration. Raw violence and personal struggles of ordinary guys in a tough neighborhood.
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2008-08-05 20:00
Underwhelming. Johansson is miscast but continues her run of being the 'other woman'.
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