Reflection Essays

Love: The True Version

I began this project by writing my many many different ideas in a diary. I had been playing around with most of these ideas for a long time, but writing them down seemed to lend them an air of credibility. The very first idea that I jotted down was about the North Avenue Sippy Cups. Thus I felt it was only right that it would be in the first post in my blog. I also thought it was pretty funny and that it would start the reader of in the right type of mood.

For a week I kept adding and deleting entries to this diary.  During this time I struggled and often ran out of ideas. Then a few days ago, I hit upon a solution. I categorized all that I had till that point, and after doing so started to look for more ideas which embraced the categories themselves. It was during this categorization that I came up with the idea of broadcasting what I would amusingly call ‘Love:  The True Version.” I came up with the name when I was again looking over the North Avenue Sippy Cups article. The name simply clicked in my head and it really did seem to fit in context

Once I had decided on the category, I began to find material concerning things that I truly loved and found interesting and thought would be a good addition to this particular post. Thus the “Enough said” section encompasses only pictures about soccer, pointing how my love for the sport will never need an introduction. Similarly having at the time just played Batman: Arkham City, it too found its place upon this list. The movies I displayed were ones which I have seen over the last five years, and I posted them both out of a sense of love and responsibility as I hoped that whoever would read this blog would be lucky enough to see at least a few of them someday.

The final addition was the “I’m a Ramblin’ Wreck from Georgia Tech” song, played and recorded in the 1960s. The love for my new college and home resulted in this video being placed under this category. I also felt it was a good way to end this section as most of readers would be able to share in this love that we all feel on a regular basis.

Some Really Cool Stuff
In this post I tried to include things that really interested in me. I tried to present the material I found in such a way that they would interest the readers of this blog as well.

Thus the fact that I embedded a video about the video game L. A . Noire’s detailed facial expressions came from the fact that I was then currently playing the game and that they actually fascinated me.

The physics videos also directly related to the fact I love physics .One of my greatest experiences here at Georgia Tech has been being taught how to simulate the Newtonian world through computer simulations. Thus in my blog I include a video of a simulation which I made in one my labs. It was while showing this video to my roommate that he showed me the electric field hockey puck game. If you still haven’t played it, trust me, you’re missing out on a lot of fun. Hopefully this portion of the post will interest my viewers a bit more in the wonderful world of physics.

I even embedded videos about soccer and about some of the greatest players the world has ever seen. Watching these is simply a pleasure, a sentiment my viewers will soon agree with.

Towards the end I have linked my blog to my old English 1101 research project. My viewers may get a bit bored while reading it, but I put a lot of effort into it and really hope at least some of them enjoy it. The bubble bursting picture was a last minute addition. It is still worth seeing however. I remember just staring at it in amazement for like five minutes when it for the the first time.

Hopefully my readers will find the material presented in this post just as interesting as I do.

The Best Quotes in the World

In my blog, I have dedicated an entire post to just quotes. The reason I decided to this was simple: I was out of ideas and finding quotes on the internet had always been very easy.

All the quotes that I used on my blog also appealed to me at a personal level. For example, being an avid fan of The Big Bang Theory, I had heard Dr. Sheldon Cooper’s dialogue myself and loved it a lot. I felt that it was only right that I should share the words of a man who made me laugh so much. Similarly I shared Glados’ quotes from the portal games. The games themselves were fantastic and the sadistic but hilarious dialogue of Glados, the evil all-knowing super computer, made it all the better. Simply reading through these quotes should prove to you that if you have not played this game, your life is incomplete.

The other quotes I included were ones made by real people. The random one was from one of the guys who lives down the hall from me (interestingly his name is T.S. Elliott and the quote he provided was from one of T.S.Eliot’s poems).

The connections I made in this post weren’t particularly unique. Others might have linked to the same material if they had decided to do this. If they had been gamers, portal would have been an obvious choice. Had they been watchers of The Big Bang Theory they too would have thought of Sheldon Cooper. The random quote however is my favorite, though I admit, I do not understand it at all. I hope that whoever reads these quotes will enjoy them and may be even remember some of them for some time to come. 

To See the Serious Sides of Things

Though I placed this post in the middle of the blog, it was actually the last one that I made. Until till this point, all the posts that I had created had either been comedic or non-serious by nature. Thus I decided that it was time to showcase my serious side.

My first post, the one relating time, Mickey mouse and Viola from Twelfth Night was actually a modified version of a similar exercise I did in class where I had originally related the three. Thanks to Dr. Hoffman for providing the spark for this idea.  

The other matters which I addressed were global issues that had caught my attention. Thus I dedicated a small portion to SOPA and PIPA. The video about Melanoma cancer I saw on Facebook. Even at the time I was stuck by many of the questions which I asked of it in the blog. The Caffeine pills post was more of a random thought, stemming from desperation when I was trying to reach the minimum number of required blog posts for the whole blog. The Bill Bryson book about Science and Perspective was one which I had to read during last semester for my English clas. I truthfully believe that people will benefit from reading it.

Finally, having just the very previous day watched the world news with Diane Sawyer, I linked ABCs news website to the blog. The reason behind this was twofold, the first obvious one being that I believed it to be a good resource for both me and my viewers. The second one was the slight hope that when my parents themselves would peruse this site, they would take note, and thus being suitably impressed would truly believe that I was on a path to better myself.

Things you’d see at tech

I came upon the idea for this blog post rather randomly. I was in the Smith Study Lounge, talking to some of my friends who were studying for a test. Suddenly one of them screamed “I can’t study anymore”, took a marker and started to draw a picture on one of the many available white boards. Amused, we all watched as he drew a prison and labeled it ‘Engineering school’. He proceeded to draw a stick figure escaping the prison and climbing onto the M-train (for those of you who are unfamiliar with this joke, ‘catching the M-train’ refers to the popular process of giving up on your engineering dreams and proceeding to pursue a degree in management). I found this very funny, and was suddenly struck by a thought. I looked around the room and found similarly weird diagrams on several of the boards surrounding me. It was at this point that I decided to dedicate a post in my blog to things Tech students would appreciate more than the average reader. Needless to say, all the pictures I found in the lounge that day are now up on the blog.

The other material that I found was quite easy to obtain. The one of me, asleep in the Clough building was in fact my Facebook profile picture at the time. The ‘resume tray’ was a picture I had taken earlier, when I had been amused by my own clumsiness. The part in which I show the differences between the schedule I expected to keep this semester, and the one I ended up keeping was taken directly from my desktop.

Only the joke itself came from memory. One of my favorite jokes of all time, I hope you laughed as much as I did when I first read it (at the very least I hope you cracked a smile).

I enjoyed making this page and sincerely hope that my fellow Tech students will have fun when they browse through it.