The Summer school began on May 8, 2016 and lasted only a three weeks but has given me memories to last a lifetime. By my saying this, it does not mean that it was not rigorous. There were lectures from 9:00-5:30 followed by assignments, empirical paper presentations and our concept note presentations so this was pretty rigorous and since it was in Thailand, the food was ... (well the hotel staff did their best to give us South Asian food) so lets just keep it at "Thai flavoured south Asian food" as Anu called it.
I have never acted in class like I did there since school, the patience of Profs especially Mani Ji was amazing, literally treating me like a child. Anu knowing that I am a introvert (being told so by my supervisor) ensured that I was comfortable, sitting with me during food, ensuring the vegetarians get something to eat, she was quite the mother.
They wanted to put a Pakistani as my roommate but that was not to be, so I had Sharmind (Bangladesh) as my roommate and I could not have asked for anybody else. She would listen to my absolute nonsense in the dead of the night.
It was the after 5:30 that actually made it the best. The Profs themselves would encourage us to go and play and work later. Games included Basketball, TT, running, walking to the Golf course and then food from 7:30 - 9:00. The staff actually asked us to empty the dining hall quite a few times followed by after dinner walk.
Assignments entailing simple optimization would take two hours because there would be 8 of us huddled on a table that could sit 5 and answers would range from the bribing the albatross to fish for the human stranded on the island in order to maximise his utility and a lot of other nonsense on who cooks rotis.... Answers would get an addendum to the tune of "Are they making fun of our intelligence?"
Lectures were amazing since Profs had immense patience and Anu made the mistake of putting me on the first bench, so I always held soliloquy with myself and audible to the lecturer which I am sure was most disturbing but they would respond to this nonsense of mine and when good sense would prevail on me was followed by a string of "haan, haan, haan, haan" which again became a thing of amusement, much to my amusement as well but then was told to the SANDEE director as well ... that is my claim to fame (or notoriety) in this school.
to be continued...
I have never acted in class like I did there since school, the patience of Profs especially Mani Ji was amazing, literally treating me like a child. Anu knowing that I am a introvert (being told so by my supervisor) ensured that I was comfortable, sitting with me during food, ensuring the vegetarians get something to eat, she was quite the mother.
They wanted to put a Pakistani as my roommate but that was not to be, so I had Sharmind (Bangladesh) as my roommate and I could not have asked for anybody else. She would listen to my absolute nonsense in the dead of the night.
It was the after 5:30 that actually made it the best. The Profs themselves would encourage us to go and play and work later. Games included Basketball, TT, running, walking to the Golf course and then food from 7:30 - 9:00. The staff actually asked us to empty the dining hall quite a few times followed by after dinner walk.
Assignments entailing simple optimization would take two hours because there would be 8 of us huddled on a table that could sit 5 and answers would range from the bribing the albatross to fish for the human stranded on the island in order to maximise his utility and a lot of other nonsense on who cooks rotis.... Answers would get an addendum to the tune of "Are they making fun of our intelligence?"
Lectures were amazing since Profs had immense patience and Anu made the mistake of putting me on the first bench, so I always held soliloquy with myself and audible to the lecturer which I am sure was most disturbing but they would respond to this nonsense of mine and when good sense would prevail on me was followed by a string of "haan, haan, haan, haan" which again became a thing of amusement, much to my amusement as well but then was told to the SANDEE director as well ... that is my claim to fame (or notoriety) in this school.
to be continued...
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