World at disposal....

What a life dude ...I know people will say I am over excited and execrating the NYU life. But whatever you say Univ. life in US rocks..sometimes literally!!

Just yesterday I met people from Google. Ya they came down to our dept. and gave a presentation about the auction technology which they are working on. It was out of the world tech discussion profs were giving idea and it was substantiated with real time data at both ends (Google Vs Profs.). Google always been one of the dream company for and here it is discussing problems with me or at least in front of me ;-). Ya ...forget to tell you got free Pizzas and T-shirts (chance to wear authentic Google T-shirts), plus all those goodies like pen, pads etc.

Other day I attended a conf. conducted by JP Morgan tomorrow it is McKinsey....list goes on but enthu. never dies. In October X-President of Mexico is coming is coming to present a talk about problems facing by Latin countries. The whole place is over whelming for me.

Today when I was going through Washington Square park, accidently I interrupted a movie shoot. Here any day u can see some director shooting his next Hollywood flick. All the buildings shown in Spiderman are next to NYU and I can not remember in how many movies we have seen Manhattan skyscrapers with some American superhero trying to save the world.

Today being a Friday u can find so many college bands performing on the streets, in the park, in auditoriums..it seems the whole of NYC is jumping on the beats of drums. Its a continuous song which is in steps of every student.

But still library lights are on, some geeks and nerds are still at work. Its like the glowing tower made of transparent glass where in best brains are at work. This place seems like a mediation hall where the world knowledge seems to originate. You name it and u can find the book , even on established topics like flirting and dating.

From next week onwards Stern classes are starting and then life will blossom in the ocean of knowledge. I might get drowned but who care....at the moment I am on top of the world. From here nothing seems unreachable whether it setting up another Google , McKinsey or Goldman Sachs...

Ultrastructure <> Hyper-lecture

So yesterday was my first day in the class. Pretty excited, thought yes this time I'll be the best student and shall follow whatever prof. says. Before talking about the class lets talk about the classroom.

What is a class room? An auditorium/movie hall (which is obviously has A/C, heating, Wi-fi, Carpeting, blah blah), which has one complete wall of black boards. Really professor can pull down one board, writes on it than can send it up then follows the code on the second board. He used some 9 to 10 boards to explain tower of Hanoi. A projector where the screen is retractable (vanishes in the ceiling) when he is using the board.

Here we don't have infrastructure, we have ultrastructures. Now I know why they charge you so much, when u go to Leela Palace u don't care about the bill. Here washrooms are not a place to write graffiti, rather here students don't have creativity to write those happy rhymes ;-). Instead they are cleaner (and techie) than what I use to have in my MNC. Coffee machines have 20 options of drinks, snacks had loads of nutritional info but no price tag !!

Now coming to the lecture ....actually I can not write about it. As it was a class where only Tower of Hanoi was the thing which I heard before. Rest was bouncer ....really. It was more of a maths class solving some real time probs (ex) in air. After ever prob-sol. he was all happy along with few grad students rest of us were wondering whether we are in a wrong class. He promised that before Stern starts his management classes, he takes the full responsibility to make our life miserable. I am sure, I am gonna royally screwed :-(

Here profs. recommend there own books for the courses. My Algo prof. says he doesnt agree with Knuth (Donald Ervin Knuth) on this or agrees on that. As if he is going to define it again ....may be yes. Another prof. is the son of Mr. David Korn....yes you got it right one who made the Korn shell in UNIX.

To bear all these guys, during the orientation I got one iPod. Ya free iPod!! Those are the most throw away things in any of the events. Just you have to be lucky enough and u guys know about my luck. And I feel its because of the wishes of my friends .......its because of U.

Please define fun again....

I m not having a house yet, no cell phone to connect, no laptop to attend classes and no classes yet. Still I m having kinda fun ...this is the welcome week @Univ. This time of the year is supposed to be the best time as the temp howers around 25-30 C.

Here gals really don't wear clothes ..only undergarments as it is hot outside u know 25C is really hot. Shorts can be shorter than the shortest short and tops are not on top they are some funny strings around ...nipple slip is just a matter of time. Clean white skin is the dress code ...can you think a guy like me getting fed up. What the heck cover it yaar...kuch to excitement rehane do.

And one interesting fact about NYU is male to female ratio is 40:60. Ya this is the fact guys are rare commodity here..I donno why bu this is the case. Yesterday I attended one Salsa class (free as welcome week), so the instructor asked all the guys to stand in a circle and as there were more gals they have to stand in middle. After than it was a round robin fashion, for every step another girl will get the chance to be with a guy. It was awesome ...beautiful gals in less clothes in ur arms just coming in a round robin fashion....man which part of the world it is.

On the unlucky side, today I missed the tour to Google as I had to register a day before and I was not aware about it :-(. I could have a trip to googleplex and lunch over there with googlites....:-(

Finally reached USA....

I reached here on 19th (safely). Last 10 days went by a blink.
Who says this is a new country, this is a new planet. Everything is different.
You are again a kid starting to learn how to switch on and off, wash utensils, clothes & even take bath. I know ..I know some bhai log will say ..hey its not a big deal. For me it was a very diff exp. as I m first time out of the country. Plus sarkari (comapny) kharche par nahin as a student it is very different. Aur waise bhi main to Burhar ka ganwar ....aur ye world ki one of the biggest city.

New York is tooooooo much, esp Manhattan where my univ is. Average height of a building 50 stories, average clothing on gals 50 cms. Beauty has diff meaning here, what we have monuments back home they call it buildings. Things are easily 50 to 100 yr old. Empire state building which still has no match was build in 1930s.

I know I am bragging too much but thats the reason why it took me 10 days to write a mail to my buddies. I m staying in New Jersey with my cousin and his bunch of friends. As all of us Software engg they all are investment bankers & consultants. Some in Lehman, Goldman, Citi, Barkley rather citi is not considered to be a very good company.

Jersey city is mini India, u can find Indian everywhere....but still I miss u guys ...time in Bangalore was awesome. I know we'll never find such good friends again. Hey guys come down some time. Those who are in US are so far that they can not be reached. Sala country ke ander hi 6 ghante ka time difference hai ...what the heck.

Abhi tak rehne ko ghar nahin mila hai ...mila hai to 1500$ per mnth/per head (after all it is Manhattan). Scholarship bhi nahin hai ...pata nahin lagata hai India main ghar bechna padega ;-).