A teacher of mine used to say..."There is no need for a Happiness Index. The amount of 'happy' can easily be gauged every morning at joggers park..."
While the connection may not be apparent to many, but the fact is, that in life there are enough and more proxies that are clear indications of upcoming or ongoing events. I've started this thread to enlist a few 'not so intuitive' ones...I'm sure I've noticed many more, but just can't remember them all right now....Will keep posting as and when I remember/re-observe...
1) Lets start with an easy one - enter the mess, and check out the line for egg bhurji and omlette...no need to even hit the food to know what awaits you..
2) Go for a jog...the number of people on the track is a clear indicaator of how fast placements are approaching
3) Who needs a thermometer...just pass by the library and peek in...gives a fairly good idea...
4) What time is it?...just be online on gtalk...esp. effective to know about class timings...within 5 mins of a class ending, the no. of people online goes up drastically...don't believe me...just check the theory at 10:40 - 10:50, 12:05 - 12:15...and so on...
5)Are holidays near?...go back to the mess...this time near the fag end...around 9.30...what...salad was still left...well then hols can't be too far away...
6) Still testing this one...I think you can tell what year...even what trimester a person is in, by seeing the length of his/her gtalk status msg...5th term guys would have the longest ones...1st term...barely any. I believe it has got something to do with frustration levels...or maybe just free time...still to come to a conclusion...
7) Let's see if you can figure this one - At one time in the year...you'll see a LOT of clean shaven, well dressed and (most surprisingly) well behaved people around you...my bet is that 5th term has just begun...(don't worry, this abnormality fades away in a week or so)
Some food for thought here...how do we know that these are 'proxies'...and not the real events. Can't placements be the proxy for no. of people jogging? You could extrapolate the logic to hit the reciprocity of related events and the relativity inherent in everything absolute...but that'd just leaves you confused so let's not...
Do put in similar events/proxies that you've noticed...am sure there are a lot....
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Some of my personal observations:
1) During exam season, the mess is more crowded at 9 pm than the usual days. The usual days, it is crowded by 8.15 - 8.30 pm
2) The rush of new applications for leave b/w two particular dates at an office can be an excellent indicator of a long weekend holiday ahead
3) The number of people on the road after 9 pm depends on the Week No. of the Term we are in. The weeks just after the mid-terms have a higher number of people on the road than the weeks close to / during the mid-terms.
An Indian actually walks up to the nearest dustbin to throw away his chocolate wrapper. Look around you... Videsh mein ho bhaiyya! :P
Nice observations yaar...and goes well with the name of your blog.
Waiting to see more of these.
Maximum number of heads turning during a lecture starting at t = 0 minutes, and ending at t = 75 is during [45,60]
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