the HKUST entries: kongratulasons

This post is dedicated to my lovely super smart juniors from GIIS, KV CLRI and KV Ashok Nagar and my friends from UST.

Congratulations, everyone, on your spectacular 48x, 47x scores. It is really heartening to see such outstanding achievements from all you guys. I sincerely hope you maintain these high standards of academic excellence and become extraordinary assets to your university, work organization and country.

Meanwhile, congratulations to Bhuvana Jagan, Chinmayi Nadiger and the other super smart nerdy fellas who cracked open the titanium entrance gates of Nanyang Technological University. For those of you whose inboxes are yet to be graced with an email from Dr. Lalit Goel, don't go all depressed and spam our Facebook News Feeds. A lot of NTU successful applicants end up in NUS, so there's still chance that you get into NTU. In the worst scenario, NTU screws up, don't worry for in the words of Late Professor Randy Pausch (Carnegie Mellon University), "brick walls are there for a reason. They are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop people who don't want it badly enough ". There are plenty of awesomer universities like HKUST that respects and rewards your talent. So, cheer up! :)

Also, congratulations, Usha, Pranav Prasad, Shreya Saha, Lynn Wu and Aurelia Fediana :). Usha, my sister, has started working in Sankara Nethralaya as a Research Assistant starting this week. I look forward to some expensive tech-spending after I get back, Ushe :P. Pranav is a wonderful friend and an awesome debater. He has been a long-standing member of EDT, HKUST and is graduating this year. This smart Chennaiite has been scooped up by JP Morgan, Hong Kong where he'll begin coming July. Shreya is currently working on her groundbreaking Shreya Saha Theorem, the weirdest mathematical invention ever. Jokes apart, Shreya Saha has officially renewed her HKUST scholarship with some wonderful performances in her final examinations. All you, Mainland ladke, watch out for the Kolkata-Kuala Lumpur K(C)onk(c)orde! Lynn and Aurelia are visiting USA and Germany in the summer. While Lynn is visiting Stanford University as part of a service learning program, Aurelia is visiting the Fatherland on an month long exchange program. Best of luck, you two. Hope you enjoy San Francisco and Munich respectively.

On a slightly un-congratulatory note, here's wishing my Host Family(comprising Tony Chan and Monica Chan, Lise and Shen) and all of HKUST a fantastic summer holiday. Have awesome fun and I hope to hear some fabulous tales next time from you all :)

As I'm on the verge of breaking the "he-writes-so-long" barrier, this post shall be terminated here.

Good night, Stana Katic dreams ;)

Keeping up with the tradition established in the previous post, here's is the next URL - HKUST Summer Hangouts. To all those depraved souls still languishing in HKUST and HK, if you ever want to get a break from active industrial training and job hunting, check out the link. Entertainment shall always be provided in HKUST to those who need it (Albus Dumbledore, don't sue me please)