Abstract Submission

hey, Good Afternoon !!!

yay !!! I successfully submitted the abstract for my seminar today. Last day I worked on it whole night and got it right there into my hands. Earlier I planned to present the whole work which I am going to do as my thesis in the seminar also but Prof. IKR Rao who is my research guide, asked me to make the presentation concise by not going into so much details, as presenting the kind of thesis which I want to , requires quite a lot of time and research and since the seminars start from November 2009 itself, I will not be able to do such a work so soon. Also I have my GRE and TOEFL due in October.That's why I had to cut down a lot of points in my abstract. Anyway, it does not matter as long as I am able to complete the work efficiently.

Guess what happened today???? We all students were called to the class by Prof. K S Raghavan who is the coordiantor of our seminar, at 2:15pm to decide the dates forthe seminar. He earlier informed us that the procedure for deciding the dates would be "A lottery system" in which there will be 7 pieces of paper having the names of all the 7 students of our class and somebody will pick up the pieces one by one and that's how dates for seminar will be decided, so that there is no question of partiality.

Although I was little happy to know this I was extremely apprehensive about the fact that if I am the first one to present the seminar, then I am "gone" !!! since the seminars start from 4 th of November and I have GRE and TOEFL this month for which I need to study. When I entered the class, everybody including my professor were already present inside the classroom and they all were waiting for me to turn up. Sir told me "Priyanki , we were waiting for you". When I asked the reason, he instructed me to sit on a different bench and gave me those 7 pieces of paper containing names of all the students in my class. I was like "Oh God !!! If I select my own name at first by mistake, there's nobody I can blame also !!! My fate was in my hands." I took a deep breath and selected the first piece of paper, then 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and finally the 7th one.

And the surprising part was I selected my name in the end i.e. my seminar would be the last one and the date is 15th December. Everybody including my professor was wondering and laughing and asked me "how did I manage to draw my name at last ????".....hhehehehhe.....and I had the last laugh. I said "I don't know sir, it happened by sheer coincidence". And at the same time my fellow classmate Shion computed the probability of this kind of occurrence instantly. Now that's a typical ISI student, we think everything in terms of statistics and numbers and data....Me and Shion jokingly say in Bengali "Ei na hole ISI ???" ;)