It's been a very very very long month indeed, inundated with tons of college acceptances and replies. In fact, the past month has been an almost exclusively ritualistic and mechanistic routine of waking up, reading college newsletters on email, replying to alumni messages, checking countdowns for the next scheduled college reply, spending the day reading about unique courses offered within colleges and then finally sleeping, but not before setting alarms to wake up at unearthly hours to check online decision portals. It was brutal. It was chaotic. It was unpredictable. And I loved it.
However now, all that is over (for the most part) and I find myself staring blankly at this screen, mournfully wondering where my adrenaline fueled life has vanished off into. It's quite a strain trying to remember what my life used to be like, before the advent of university applications. I can feel it gradually coming back to me though, when I start playing the piano or the guitar. I recently bought a new electric guitar (SSS pickups and a synchronized tremolo bridge - facts for the enthusiasts) and I spent many a blissful morning and afternoon trailing through tones and semitones all along the fretboard with a myriad of contoured distortion effects. I'm looking forward to one day learning how to properly bend strings - just the right amount - like Gilmour from Floyd, but that's a long way down the road. For now, I'm content with playing alongside simpler tunes.
I'm really impressed with Google's April Fool's this year (the Pokemon mini-game in Google Maps) mainly because a) it involves Pokemon and b) the trailer video reminded me of the immense possibilities of augmented reality when combined with contextual location services. I was recently introduced to an intriguing development kit for augmented reality mobile applications which runs on both iOS and Android, and I've been tweaking the example modules late into the night ever since. I can really see a future in augmented reality, specially for all those IKEA catalogues and the like which I used to get in London. 3D models of items straight onto your phone just by aiming the camera at the page they're on? Yes please, and let's try and integrate some 3D printing too. Perhaps I'll get to explore all this and more at university. #excited
One aspect of college life that I'm really looking forward to, besides the courses and lessons that I'll be studying, is the networking that you get done as an undergraduate. I've already gotten to know a lot of my future classmates/batch mates and it's amazing to meet such intellectual and diverse people, with such vibrant personalities and ideas. I've never been one for excessive public interaction (ironic, isn't it), but I'm eagerly awaiting more conversations with people of such calibre.
Signing out for now, because blogging at midnight is never a good idea.
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However now, all that is over (for the most part) and I find myself staring blankly at this screen, mournfully wondering where my adrenaline fueled life has vanished off into. It's quite a strain trying to remember what my life used to be like, before the advent of university applications. I can feel it gradually coming back to me though, when I start playing the piano or the guitar. I recently bought a new electric guitar (SSS pickups and a synchronized tremolo bridge - facts for the enthusiasts) and I spent many a blissful morning and afternoon trailing through tones and semitones all along the fretboard with a myriad of contoured distortion effects. I'm looking forward to one day learning how to properly bend strings - just the right amount - like Gilmour from Floyd, but that's a long way down the road. For now, I'm content with playing alongside simpler tunes.
I'm really impressed with Google's April Fool's this year (the Pokemon mini-game in Google Maps) mainly because a) it involves Pokemon and b) the trailer video reminded me of the immense possibilities of augmented reality when combined with contextual location services. I was recently introduced to an intriguing development kit for augmented reality mobile applications which runs on both iOS and Android, and I've been tweaking the example modules late into the night ever since. I can really see a future in augmented reality, specially for all those IKEA catalogues and the like which I used to get in London. 3D models of items straight onto your phone just by aiming the camera at the page they're on? Yes please, and let's try and integrate some 3D printing too. Perhaps I'll get to explore all this and more at university. #excited
One aspect of college life that I'm really looking forward to, besides the courses and lessons that I'll be studying, is the networking that you get done as an undergraduate. I've already gotten to know a lot of my future classmates/batch mates and it's amazing to meet such intellectual and diverse people, with such vibrant personalities and ideas. I've never been one for excessive public interaction (ironic, isn't it), but I'm eagerly awaiting more conversations with people of such calibre.
Signing out for now, because blogging at midnight is never a good idea.
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Internet_Won = true;
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