On 23rd Oct, 1995 I saw DDLJ (Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayegein), I still remember the date as that time was full of excitement and exuberance, since the same day it was chotti (small) Diwali so after watching such a wonderful movie( on the first day) I was bursting cracker, and if you have ever lived in New Delhi, winters are amazing air is filled with sound of band and music since marriage season starts from Oct and last till Jan.
I have no idea how these 14 years went by, life was smooth, thanks to parents and still it is but don't know a desire to do something on my own, earning good amount of money to keep not only keep myself but also people around me happy and also to donate some to charities. Incidentally, I also watched "Wake up Sid" today, I can somehow correlate my life to that movie, at one time I had coolest friend-circle no studying just having fun and now everything is gone, I am studying most of the time but difference only being I don't know will it ever be useful since economy is no mood to revive and hence hardly any jobs.
Never felt so much un-motivated and directionless in whole of my life.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
To Sir with Love!
Yesterday I checked my mailbox which I stopped using after I joined USF and to my surprise there was a mail from our beloved Prof (Dr.) James Fawcett from Syracuse University. As far as anyone who has taken his classes, he is the busiest person since his classes are almost full and he is mostly taking 2 courses per semester which involves a lot of programming assignment and thus evaluating them too. But then somebody has rightly said "The busiest man on this planet has time for everything".
So coming back to email thing. He wrote that there are some envelopes (of-course mine) lying over there and asked me to send my resume so that he can write Letter of Recommendation(LOR) for me. The thing is he has already sent me LOR's in May and I sent some envelopes with incorrect stamp value and thus this confusion.
What I really want to emphasize is that he could have easily ignored those envelopes but he contacted me to ask after being in state of confusion, a person with such a stature writing an email to 3 point something student is surprising and at the same time shows humble-ness and genuine-ness of a person. After exchanging couple of emails, he asked me to send my photograph and what I am doing so that he can put into Graduates page but I am so much disappointed on myself that I have nothing much to show as other graduates from his page have (working in Microsoft, Bloomberg, Amazon, Goldman Sachs etc etc) .
Don't know what future holds for me but after meeting Professors like Fawcett Sir, I have gained a lot of respect for academics, teachers and universities in general.
Lots of good wishes for your good health Prof Fawcett.
So coming back to email thing. He wrote that there are some envelopes (of-course mine) lying over there and asked me to send my resume so that he can write Letter of Recommendation(LOR) for me. The thing is he has already sent me LOR's in May and I sent some envelopes with incorrect stamp value and thus this confusion.
What I really want to emphasize is that he could have easily ignored those envelopes but he contacted me to ask after being in state of confusion, a person with such a stature writing an email to 3 point something student is surprising and at the same time shows humble-ness and genuine-ness of a person. After exchanging couple of emails, he asked me to send my photograph and what I am doing so that he can put into Graduates page but I am so much disappointed on myself that I have nothing much to show as other graduates from his page have (working in Microsoft, Bloomberg, Amazon, Goldman Sachs etc etc) .
Don't know what future holds for me but after meeting Professors like Fawcett Sir, I have gained a lot of respect for academics, teachers and universities in general.
Lots of good wishes for your good health Prof Fawcett.
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