Vedant Matta

 It's November now, and Winter Is Coming! I completed the second book of Song of Ice and Fire series (GoT) last night. I've never been into book sagas, but this one seems captivating enough to make an exception. I'm going to issue the third novel tomorrow besides it is helping me to budge on my screen time which is skyrocketing this year. I'm currently on an average six hr cycle on the phone with times of even eight-plus hours. My eyesight has become weaker, and I'll soon need to change the lenses now. Does it ever end? One of the notables things that happened in this half of the year was IIT Indore ending up 2nd in the country in THE ranking. Although a personal achievement at institute level, it's not something to brag publicly. The most plausible theory behind this anomalous occurrence is the parameters used by the ranking org which were more of a modular than cumulative ones. Research/no. of branches, accomplishments/number of student, etc. I would have...

The title is indeed true. But there's no sense now in bragging about it. Anyways February has blessed us with the first blog post.  Nothing much happened from the last post except for the ongoing<ish> protests here at IIT Indore. In most of the IITs pan India, such protests are coming up for various reasons. Leaving a link . The [article] is very well written. But it made me wonder that many national universities who already have established powerful student bodies have done any good to themselves. We all know that what kind of cultures prevails in those unis. All these debates akin to prevalent national politics makes me look back to my naive and cynical attitude to government, or in a broader sense the governance which I had in I don't know like in 9th - 10th standard. It wouldn't be even wrong if I say that it was still with me for the last few years. Back then everything was ( In a rigorous sense) either right or wrong. It was purely classical mec...

Got a chance to visit much dreaded Ahmedabad once again. This time for the marriage of an amicable 2nd cousin. The trip was of 2 days and then I was going to leave for Jodhpur, but Pa's trip got postponed, and I decided to come back to Indore and celebrate their 20th marriage anniversary instead (Today).  None to my surprise, the trip left me ill (again) (I'm still sufferingggg!!). My throat is paining, can't eat properly, and neither can sneeze. This was due to the city's horrible food. This time it was a locally well-known restaurant in the industrial area. Apparently, the choice of mine and Gujaratis are on altogether different page. *Death due to food seems no wonder to me anymore*  The cousin is pass out from IIT Madras, and I met him for the first time in person. He co-founded a startup with his friend called Ather Energy and had raised almost 285 crores for the same. It is based on creating an electric and internet connected scooter. Naturally, curiosity mad...

Exams are over 😔, results were a significant setback to my already not so smooth college life. I miss the thrill of studying during JEE prep. Then I studied because I liked to but now I study only for passing the exam. No subject is a forte of mine now. God knows what IIT-I has more to offer. It is just like that the state of my mind is not on the same page with the college learning process. Many are feeling likewise. Other reason may be that previously, results were directly proportional to your efforts but now instead they're like efforts to the power one fifth. I have to stay in the campus till all the answer papers are shown. I've found solace in badminton until then. One side of the earphones paralyzed today <sed lyf>. Yesterday went to Indore for a quick trip with friends. Every time someone enquires of place worth sightseeing more I realize that Indore has nothing to offer except food. I also got to use Pixel 2 devices in T.I. Google is really trying to s...

Please DM me if you know how to write an introduction to a blog post. Well I'm settled now in IIT-I. But missing my family even though they're like just 30 km away.  Med Semester exams are going on and yet I'm writing this post. Whenever I give some serious test/exam I'm always in one of the two kinds of state. First being - "This phase will just get over in 8 days and then I'll be off to home, sleeping/Tv etc etc. While the second being me just kind of getting really into that moment. Enjoying the exam, adding logic to the just plane wrote memory and moreover taking proud of my hard work. Although the second profile was active only a few times like with the 8-10th standard exams and JEE Adv. ( Even though the latter didn't end up well). This pretty much describes my life as well. Only when I'm fully prepared and have certainty of the outcomes I actual live the life at its fullest. And when I'm intimidated by my ill preparedness; fear of outcome...

Writing after a very long time, don't ask me why. Finally schooling is over and it's time for college, but I don't know why I'm more or less perplexed about the college. I'm not at all feeling excited. This blogging thing has turned into a place where I'm active only when I'm feeling down. Finding reasons for such aversion leads me nowhere, maybe its because of parting from family, maybe from exhaustion due to rigorous studies in past 2½ years. Well who know what this phase may turn out to be. Few days back, I 'celebrated' my birthday, huge disappointment once again. This time not even a cake to celebrate. Literally had to go out alone for an Ice Cream and a chocolate tart. ( To overcome next to none response on my birthday from my family) I imagine my future life likewise. Never have I been so doubtful of my future. Each TV show's seasons ( Silicon Valley, Brooklyn 99, Doctor Who, TBBT) which I watch has ended. 😩 Leading to more emptines...

Shadowplay - The Killers

Writing blog after a long time 😪, because nothing surprising happened with an exception of one-two events. I'm completely clueless why I'm writing this post. Nevertheless, I should start. Few days back (actually 2 months ago), I visited Ahmedabad not on a major purpose, ( my father had some work there, and I needed a break from studies), I must say that they suck at food. I ate same local dishes there at their most well-known place, and everytime I think about that I feel like puking, man! disgusting food. I've eaten local dishes in South India & Maharashtra and their food sucked too, but Gujrat set a new low. Enough with it. Ahmedabad is a better city than mine, I must say. IIM is a jewel of architecture in Ahmedabad's city. No wonder it's so hard to get there. City is well planned.  Bingg, I'm out of topic to discuss upon.  Huehuheuehue, I don't want to start that depressing crap of my life. Festivities have started. Ganesh Chaturthi just got past...

If you would've yelled out the title to me, I would've surely punched you in the face, but not today because I'm full of positivity this year end. Once again another year has passed swiftly. This year was full of new experiences. My useless IIT journey began. To be honest I wasn't expecting PCM to be so interesting and tiresome at the same time. It surely has some perks of it's own. Many things happened over the last week itself. We ordered a bed for me but it turned out to still not fix my almost 6' height. Now we gotta replace it once again with 6½ feet one. The results of Regional Maths Olympiad too came in which I got very less marks despite being attempting it very well. I blame the checker for this mishap. I ought to get some more marks. I don't care if they understand my way of presentation. [ Cries and laughs deeply inside] Aahh It was a major disappointment. The day before yesterday SpaceX finally tested the Reusable Space rocket 🚀program. It...

My life is becoming more monotonous day by day. Nothing great happened in past few weeks ( better be months). My birthday is coming in the next to next week. I don't look forward celebrating it, I have to pour almost 6 hours on classes that day and also a 3hr (or maybe more) test the day after that day. Every year I wait for this date and it quietly passes by and nothing happens. That hurts  . Monsoon has arrived. It rains every now then. The rain makes me remember all my good moments I had past in my life and makes me more sad. I was always taught that rain was symbol of despair ( as it was used in many Poems) but I never believed cause it every time made my more cheerful, but now things have changed. I really hate growing older now but that's the cycle of life. You born, grow up & do every useless thing you have to do and die... I'm at loss to find things which I look forward too. Well I found some old pics (2007) on our family cloud storage today while I was organ...

Well, the day was a damn tiring Sunday, had to give two tests almost for continuous 4 hours. It rained in morning but now the humidity is unbearable. Two days back I got to visit a Solar Farm near Indore, it was really great ( really satisfying) to see people aware in India about renewable energy resources. I thought only European countries mastered it. Well on the more brighter side later I also got to know that there's an upcoming project of 750 mW Solar plant in my state. The farm was almost 6 times a football ground and above all it covered the valley which further added to it's beauty. Whenever I see something good for environmental I really feel very comfy, afterall Environment Protection is only social issue which I'm majorly concerned of. Mom has gone to attend a marriage at my maternal home place. So my food cycles are really disrupted. I always do lunch at quarter to twelve and today I did it on 4 o clock. It's 23:30 & I haven't even ate my dinner....

Life has changed a lot from my last post, now I'm in 11th Grade ( passed with 10 CGPA ) But this time I wasn't that much excited and energetic to advance in next class than I used to be in previous classes. I left my school ( in which I spent my half life enjoying, playing and living life at the fullest) to cope up with IIT JEE Exams preparation. Today it reopened for the next semester. I really hate study system. In the part of life where we're young, full of energy and have such a creative mind, we're forced to work hard to make our future better, but what's the use of it? Undeniably the most cheerful part of our life is Teenage period. But we waste it. Well the debate on education system is endless, and the system itself gets worse with the time.

Don't believe in everything you read on internet! - Albert Einstein _/\_

Finally the school has opened after a delay of week after two months long vacation. I was much excited about the new (shuffled) class, but everything ruined after the first period! First of All our class teacher, didn't even asked our names and started Maths. Neither 'Hi' nor 'Hello'. And about the class!, grave silence all the time. Even the Tickling of your wrist watch may irritate you :'(  & after the lunch I had an unbearable headache (It's still persistent). Well leave it, now I'm habitual of it! Well the FIFA WC '14 has started, hopes from the Dutch and Germany.