Well, my this semester is over and since last summer have not expressed my nonchalant life and thinking. This semester was the one I saw the least movies, though I continued watching series. This semester, my plan was to focus on the positive incentives I got from last semester in my studies. I got enough encouragement at IIT Bombay during my summer project. This blog will slowly roll on focusing on from where I had left in my last Blog.
"Please save me from this Jungle, I am celebrity". This was our feeling as we arrived in haringhata. We were missing City Centre, the Multiplexes. At first we used to fled every weekend to Kolkata, to feel that we are not missing any fun. Slowly we realized it was tidious to go to city 2 hours from here changing vehicles 3 to 4 times. We had some unforgetable experiences also. Let me share one, one time while returning from Kolkata, we reached Khachrapada at 11 PM. The last bus had left half an hours ago. We had to wake a thelawala, this thela was motorized. The man was drunk. He was driving it like a hell. As he had moved about 200 mts a truck was coming from the front, he lost the control and struck luckily to heap of sand infront instead hitting the truck. We all fell on road narrowly escapped from being crushed by the truck( you should know how the hell these truck drivers drive on NH). We continued rest of journey on foot walking slowly. Fear loomed large when we reached in area which had full vegetation cover and no lights. It was long and horrifing walk. We nearly walked 5 kms on foot. We were exhausted but relieved as we reached our hostel.
Days in Haringhata were monotonous, only classes and Laboratories. But all this gave me enough time to complete my first reseach project. I enjoyed lot of time reading journals, which boosted me to plunge in field of research. But some time I feared about the negatives and bad condition of this field in India. I played table tennis, but now I had become a bad player. I did not enjoy it. IPL T20 were not so much exciting this time, main reason it was played in South Africa and we had also lost our appetite in cricket due too much cricket. I learnt Chemistry well and got good grades.
Summers was both learning curve and fun filled. I was selected for the prestigious Symmer Fellowship in The Phosphorous Lab under supervision of Prof. Balakrishna. It was my first exposure to any lab outside my institute. At first everything seemed so much antique. Labs in IISER are new and every apperatus is new one. It was disheartening and first sight. I thought they will help me in my work but everyone was so engrossed in own work. They had hardly time to help you. Their motto was "If you have it in you then you can do it yourself." They were right, but I was late to understand it. But when I understood it I was completely engrossed in my work with their help. My motto was simple : Work on weekdays and on weekend enjoy as much as possible. I did so. Slowly I found that all Research Fellows were good human beings. Pawan Bhaiya was good in writing poems, had won the best Love letter writting composition. Susmita Didi was one who kept the Lab clean. Sowmya and Siddiqui Bhaiya gave me encouragement to what ever I did. I was amazed by the didactic memory of Anant Bhaiya. Bimba did was treated us well. She told about all her stories. I learnt from them about art of Lab work and learnt to use Scifinder and ChemDraw. I participated in their group talk and came how to think about research. Talking with Prof. Balakrishna was quite inspirng. I learnt from them preparing sample for NMR, little bit about how to read NMR. Shiva and me enjoyed evening parties. They were so much sincere to their work was inspiring for us. We also went to Naneghat. It was quite amazing experience. It was for the first time I went for trackking and it was full of fun. Overall it was caring atmosphere.
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