29/06/2014

29/06/2014; 11:06:

Shruti and I went on a long walk around campus, the other day. It was intended to be only a walk, without the preceding adjective, but, a newly constructed road resulted in a change in plan! A new road that runs from Gate-3, along the under-construction hostels and merges with the existing road at the faculty block has been recently completed and discovered by us!

The next evening was spent cycling along the newly discovered road. The hardest part about fixing cycle chains isn't even fixing them, it's getting the grease off your hands!

The course on Introduction to History picks up History from a very different perspective than the one we were exposed to in school. The Professor spent the first two sessions in letting us know about why history is important, how history works to shape the thought process of the people, why the government is scared of historians and what it means to actually be a historian. These were all things which, even if we had known, we had never considered.

The course on the Essentials of Human Values began with Sir wondering if there were any atheists in the course, since the course has been designed from a theistic perspective. I was surprised to realise that there are a good number of atheists in the batch. Faith & belief in some form of God was something that I had wrongly taken for granted. Of course, I believe, as seen by the careful usage of capitalization. We've been discussing the idea of self and selfishness. True Selfishness actually leads to selflessness.

The geography of a place affects the business & trade. Of course, as future entrepreneurs of the nation, this is vital information for us. I mean, it obviously makes sense to open up a beautiful sea-side resort in Goa. I'll work on it!