This article was written in part for another website categorizing summer research internship experiences, and is published here unedited. I was asked to write about my summer research experience, in an attempt to paint a picture for my juniors of what it looks like to work with a professor and in a lab, so they […]
The past few years have been transformative for me. I only hope the same is also true for the country. It was not until 2016, when Donald Trump was elected to be the president of the United States, that I had really started to think for myself. I had been told for most of my […]
As featured in Manthan, the IISER Mohali student magazine. https://manthan-iiserm.blogspot.com/ Picture a man, early in the morning, preparing to leave. He prays to his god, doesn’t matter which, for his religion is insignificant to the job he knows he must do. He kisses his mother goodbye, not knowing whether he will return. Such would be […]
We have all been there, have we not? Every time the thought of them crosses your mind, your heart skips a beat; every time you get to be with them, the time just flies; every little thing about them seems interesting, and you’re curious to know them better, to know them more intimately. Eventually though, […]
TL;DR – No book read, was ever in vain. Setting the Harry Potter series aside, and as much hate as I might get for it, even the Twilight series, I have not read or enjoyed much of the fantasy genre in my life so far (another recent exception being The Kingkiller Chronicles which I’m reading […]
This post will probably end up being quite heavy and personal. TL;DR – it’s about my seemingly strange fixation with feeling sad. I often find myself plagued with work and responsibilities – things that I should tend to at the soonest so that once I’m through I can move on to fun things that bring […]
It is pretty clear to me at this point in life, that I would like to become a physicist. What I still sometimes struggle over, is why. Richard P. Feynman – one of the finest physicist of our time – won the Nobel Prize, but detested it. To him, the prize was in the joy […]
In an interview given by Neil DeGrasse Tyson some time ago, he presented a possible way to travel back in time. If one was to travel to a planet very, very far away, through a wormhole so as to reach there before light that reflected off of you as you left reached, and take a […]
Recently, on a long drive with my family, I got into a discussion with my father about gravity after telling my family about Galileo’s famous experiment of dropping two spheres of different masses from the Tower of Pisa to show conclusively that it is not the weight of the object that determines how fast it […]
When I was going through the lowest period in my life so far, which was after graduating from school, I realised something that changed what music meant to me completely. I’m gonna be using “we” instead of “I” here, because conversations and discussions I’ve had with some people have led me to conclude that I’m […]
Physicist-To-Be 