@SirCumference ~14. I'll turn 18 this April :-)

@SirCumference Only by a smidge! I skipped one year of elementary school.

Anyway, I'm not very photogenic, you see. I decided that my old picture wasn't good so I changed it this, which is a better picture, albeit, not um, representative of reality :-P

@rob :-) I don't remember too much of elementary school either. I only know from my mother that I used to be a badass--one time, my class teacher was absent and I wasn't very fond of the substitute so I refused to enter class and played in the playground all day x'D Gosh, I'm not even kidding.

@SirCumference Lol :-P I look slightly better in my old pictures.

@Sir: I'd be a freshman in college too, were it not for this exam that I decided to write again, so don't fret, you're not that old, after all :-P

@SirCumference No, I graduated last year.

Precisely.

@BernardoMeurer I'll be 18 in 3 months.

@SirCumference Damn, that sucks, man :-/

@SirCumference I have heard that in foreign universities, you're allowed the liberty to change your major midway through the course, is that correct?

This is not allowed here. If u sign up for a degree in physics, that's all you can do. The concept of a "major" is almost non-existent here.

Anyhoo, that's besides the point.

The long and short of it is that it depends on how well I do in my exams this year.

@rob Hmm...

@SirCumference Yes, I can do a double major.

@SirCumference .__. What's the point of that?

No, you can't drop it--you'd fail, that's all, I guess.

What does "minor" even mean?

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And that goes on your CV?

It works a little bit differently here. When u join college, you sign up for just one course--"BSc. Physics", "X engineering" etc. This doesn't, of course, mean that it's the only subject we'll be studying but no, nothing else gets to go on ur C.V because the concept of a minor doesn't exist here.

The structure of foreign universities has always fascinated me...

@SirCumference It sounds wonderful :-(

^ This certainly takes the pressure off high school children.

We were all so angsty and scared during senior year of high school--not only did we need to prepare for these effed up exams, but we also needed to know exactly what to do with the rest of our lives.

It really was. To answer your original question, I was intent on doing an integrated 5-year (BSc. + MSc.) course in physics but after what went down last summer, I changed my mind.

Let me phrase that in a better way.

What I meant was that there is a college in the North of India which offers a "double major" of sorts--it's a five year course in Electronics engineering and Physics. Out of all the places, that's where I'm hoping to be by August of this year.

Same here, but this course will be long--Masters in Physics and a Bachelors in electronics engineering, don't you think it will take some time?

Yes. That's where I want to be in August. It's incredibly difficult to get in but I'm hoping for the best.

Thanks very much :-) And yes, we have to take JEE--only if we want to tho.

@SirCumference Yeah :-/

Some of the rich kids write exams like SAT, ACT and IIELTS and join foreign colleges, BTW.

Thanks :-) 'Night.

Wonder what's up with this:

I haven't been upvoted in a terribly long time and now, bam, so many upvotes within the span of just one week.

@Sir: Thought you were going to bed .__.

@SirCumference Oh, OK :-|

@JohnRennie Yes :-) I was about 4 or 5 yo when that picture was taken.

@JohnRennie I think so--weren't you eating a chicken-leg or something?

@SirCumference I am starting to suspect that you may be blind .__.

@SirCumference Lol :-P

@JohnRennie Ah, yes :-)

@SirCumference Why, what's up?

@JohnRennie Huh, really? I don't remember it being of low quality...

My picture is also not of good quality:

See?

Exactly.

Interestingly, for a very long time after that picture was taken, my face was always changing. Then 2 years ago, I chopped off my hair and then I took another picture and bam, I looked exactly the same! It was very weird. I didn't think I'd ever look like that again but seriously, in that other picture, I look almost exactly like the person in this picture.

Aw :-(

It was probably the hair that made it obvious again. I got literally the same haircut that I have in that picture.

@JohnR: I see that u had the evil eyes even as a child :-P

@JohnRennie It's so sad then, that you don't even know what you're doing with your life--I see u as a saint, not as a super-villain. Seriously, get it together :-P

@JohnR: Whenever u're done discussing, say, dyou like songs like these:

@SirCumference It's Ed but only kinda country, his new music. It's great.

@JohnRennie I see...

@SirCumference Yep, it's nice :-)

What about this:

@SirCumference Nope, neither .__.

@SirCumference I'll listen to it and tell u what I think by the time u wake up tomorrow.

Fanfarlo?

@JohnR: Kodaline?

@JohnRennie OK. I like them a lot :-)

@SirCumference :-P Does it still call for an answer?

Also, seriously dude, being on the computer is not going to help you get to sleep any faster.

@SirCumference ...and yet, you're still here :-P

Also, Fanfarlo! Did u like the song?

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@Sir: U fell asleep, I guess :-P

@Sir: Have u tried listening to podcasts?

Good question :-P Arguably there are better alternatives but when I can't get myself to fall asleep, I usually listen to either Dear Hank & John/Ear Biscuits. Don't concentrate on the stuff they're saying--have them just be there in the background and then whatever conversation is happening sort of paints pictures in my brain and then before I know it, I'm kinda dreaming and can't remember what they're talking about and bam, I'm asleep.

Right before I fall asleep, I unplug my earphones so it stops and then I can just sleep.

I listened to this last night and it helped a lot:

soundcloud.com/earbiscuits/ep-22-rhett-link-ear-biscuits

Those guys have a super slow cadence. They're perfect to fall asleep to :-P

Obviously, I can't guarantee that it will work for you.