A New Chapter Begins !!!
May 2006 : Done with my Bachelors from IIT Guwahati.
August 2006 : Begins my quest for Masters at Arizona State University, Phoenix.
After a terribly long flight from Bombay to Los Angeles with only one stop at Frankfurt and a long delay of the connecting flight from LA to Phoenix, I landed in Phoenix at around 2:00am on the 7th of August, 2006. Luckily for me the Indian Students Association had not only picked me up from the airport but also provided me with temporary accomodation till I find my way around. It was really nice of all the seniors to help the freshers and provide them with a lot of assistance in the beginning.
The first few days went by running around the whole campus from building to building and desk to desk to get all the paper work done as soon as possible. I managed to do everything but just forgot about my accomodation, which finally has been resolved and hopefully will be moving in this weekend.
My first weekend was pretty boring, just sitting in the room and watching movies in my seniors laptop. After doing this for the whole of Saturday and Sunday afternoon, we decided it was enough and managed to coax a senior to taking us to South Mountain. South Mountain is a picnic spot in the outskirts of Tempe. It was a nice ride apart from which I didnt find the whole place pretty exciting. Well it was still better than sitting in the room.
The next week passed eating pizza's and attending ice-cream parties. Ohh forgot to mention the silly orientation programs where you sit through a series of lectures which make u feel sleepy. After all this came the best weekend till date.
"THE TRIP TO GRAND CANYON".
It all began on Saturday morning when I went to a seniors place and he asked me whether I was interested in coming to Grand Canyon. After a little bit of dilly dallying I decided that this was it. My chance to have fun before a gruelling semester. I took it up and would not regret it. We started on Saturday afternoon at around 3:30 pm on 19th August 2006. We decided to touch Sedona and Flagstaff enroute to Grand Canyon. It was a really exciting trip and the ride was amazing. I was amazed to look at the level of civil engg in the US. 2 laned roads on top of mountain ..stretching for a few miles. This was really amazing and there were a lot of other fun incidents all over the trip (which I think will go in a different topic later on). We came back on Sunday night 10:30 pm. Although we could do a whole lot of things ..there was a time constraint that didnt allow us to explore everything. All in all it was good trip and had some much need divertion from all the troubles ehehe.
After this started the SEMESTER, on 21st August 2006. I bunked my first 2 morning classes of Environmental Fluid Dynamics (EFD) ....well this had become a habit at IIT which has to be lost soon if I have to survive here. During that week I paid my first visit to the Student Recreation Complex (SRC) and from then on have been a regular visitor. Its a really cool place to relax and exercise. You will find a lot of things to do ....any game or dance or food etc;. The second week went by in a similar fashion. Well things are slightly getting hotter and I guess from the next week I may not have the time to do this .....therefore putting one down right now ....
Incase the semester does not put me to the limit ..I should be doing this regularly ...otherwise will come back later ....
posted by Abhi @ 4:56 PM
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