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....wanderings of a calm mind ?

i just changed the description of my blog. i was contemplating doing so from quite some time. specifically from about the time i started my second year in MIT.
There is something about this place that strangely enough, makes it home. the food is bad ( not really, but even good food tastes bad if eaten repeatedly ), the attitude of most locals is screwed up ( Most people i've met in udupi and manipal wont go the extra step to make things favorable for customers. Take it or piss off is the patented formula here ) , everything is a rip off ( the rickshaw wallahs are a bunch of cut-throat bastards ) . But still, out here i have had the most fun and done the most studying. some of my lecturers are amazing people and some of my fellow students are more so. There are people here who would gladly stay up overnight to code up something or complete something or simply get drunk. to each his own. and most of these people are committed to his/her art/craft. Even the lecturers ( and the drunkards ).
I have understood my own craft better since i have joined here, there were a few things about computers that looked like magic because i was not able to understand the ongoing process. Also i am now slightly more comfortable in programming in different styles esp functional.
I am calmer. i can see and understand things better now. Most importantly, i understand why people sometimes behave like assholes. To see things from their ( mostly flawed ) perspective makes them easier to deal with. My mind works better now, and it thanks me.

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