Room for Parth and Manishearth

Πάρτη Κοχλί

12:29

Yup.

@ManishEarth So I finally understood what your username meant after that capitalization.

ManishEarth

@ΠάρτηΚοχλί ha

most people think that it's ManIsHearth or ManisHearth

or whatever :P

Πάρτη Κοχλί

@ManishEarth Exactly. I thought it was ManisHearth.

ManishEarth

no, my name is Manish. The Earth is randomness

(because the username Manish is already taken)

also, why is your username "Party Cochli?"

Πάρτη Κοχλί

@ManishEarth My name is Parth Kohli. :-|

ManishEarth

ohhhh

why the chi in the center?

I guess I saw the Part and assumes it was y :P

Shouldn't it be Πάρτη Κοηλί?

Πάρτη Κοχλί

12:33

You're right...

Let me change it.

Oops.

Can you change it for me? That 30 day thing.

ManishEarth

yeah

Do you mind your profile being resynced across all sites?

Πάρτη Κοχλί

No I don't.

ManishEarth

kk

Πάρτη Κοχλί

Thanks.

ManishEarth

done

now to hard refresh chat

done

@ΠάρτηΚοηλί test

Πάρτη Κοχλί

12:36

Aah!

Thanks.

ManishEarth

yw :)

Πάρτη Κοηλί

BTW

ManishEarth

?

Πάρτη Κοηλί

How did you become a moderator?

ManishEarth

Well, I was quite active on Chem

And I know most of the policies inside-out

(since I'm active on MSO)

So I got appointed on Chem

And, well, I got elected on Phys. I had a good amount of rep (comparatively), a lot of meta participation, and an understanding of the system

Πάρτη Κοηλί

12:40

That's a lot.

Well, congratulations.

Are you just 19?!

ManishEarth

thx

@ΠάρτηΚοηλί yeah

Πάρτη Κοηλί

14:03

@ManishEarth You are pretty good for your age.

ManishEarth

@ΠάρτηΚοηλί thanks :)

Πάρτη Κοηλί

14:36

@ManishEarth Did you follow the course when you were my age?

ManishEarth

@ΠάρτηΚοηλί which course?

@TobiasKildetoft sure, moving

Πάρτη Κοηλί

@ManishEarth They call it the school course.

I mean to ask if you were ahead of your school.

ManishEarth

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@ΠάρτηΚοηλί yea sorta

Πάρτη Κοηλί

15:02

@manishearth Whoops, thanks. I didn't realize I was flooding that room with useless things.

ManishEarth

np

Πάρτη Κοηλί

So, where do you study?

ManishEarth

@ΠάρτηΚοηλί currently? IIT Bombay

Πάρτη Κοηλί

@ManishEarth Whoa! B or M?

ManishEarth

B?

B Tech yes

Engineering Physics

which is basically intense pure physics with a mere sprinkling of nanotech and solid state

which is what I wanted in the first place :D

Πάρτη Κοηλί

15:07

Whoaaa.

Nice

Frankly, I want to study at MIT.

ManishEarth

@ΠάρτηΚοηλί thought of that, but decided not to

Πάρτη Κοηλί

@ManishEarth Really?

ManishEarth

I have a US passport (born+brought up), so I don't need to go to a US uni for the visa

(as a lot of folks do)

and MIT isn't that much better than IIT at the UG level

Πάρτη Κοηλί

Really? Were you born and brought up in USA?!

ManishEarth

Only difference is flexibility

@ΠάρτηΚοηλί i said that, didn't i? :P

And I don't mind that difference much: If I stay here, I can be with family. Plus it's cheaper.

Πάρτη Κοηλί

15:16

@ManishEarth You did. I was just exclaiming...

wow, that's pretty cool.

ManishEarth

@ΠάρτηΚοηλί I know, I know ;P

Πάρτη Κοηλί

So you must have like an American accent.

ManishEarth

I have both

People who go to the US and keep an accent when coming back are just faking it

When you are in an environment with two accents your brain treats them as separate languages

Πάρτη Κοηλί

So which one is your natural accent?

ManishEarth

American

Πάρτη Κοηλί

15:17

Nice.

ManishEarth

At home I spoke Marathi, so no accent there

Πάρτη Κοηλί

Do you know Hindi?

ManishEarth

only with Indian families did I use that accent

@ΠάρτηΚοηλί didn't before, now I do. Sort of.

Πάρτη Κοηλί

Nice, nice.

That's why you are one of those special Indians who actually use correct spellings and punctuation. LOL

ManishEarth

lol

Not always:

3 mins ago, by ManishEarth

@ΠάρτηΚοηλί i said that, didn't i? :P

(then again, this is the Internet. I'm allowed to do that :P)

Πάρτη Κοηλί

15:19

@ManishEarth No, I know that sometimes people are too lazy to use the shift key. At least you didn't say, “i said dat, didnt i???????”

ManishEarth

@ΠάρτηΚοηλί that was me typing with one hand actually :P

But yeah, I know what you mean

Bad-Indian-English can be smelled from a mile off.

Πάρτη Κοηλί

LOL

So how do you find it at IIT?

Are you staying just like a simple guy or is it a complicated situation with nerds all around?

ManishEarth

@ΠάρτηΚοηλί It's awesome

Lots of stuff to do (besides academics). You really need to pick what you want to do 'cos you don't have the time :P

@ΠάρτηΚοηλί I don't quite get you :S

Πάρτη Κοηλί

But it shouldn't be better than MIT! :-O

ManishEarth

@ΠάρτηΚοηλί Sure. But given the circumstances, (family in India), I felt that IIT is better

also, MIT is awesome, but not so much for UG

Πάρτη Κοηλί

15:26

I can't believe it.

ManishEarth

?

Πάρτη Κοηλί

Is it just IITB or is it the case with each one of them?

ManishEarth

Not sure. The new IITs come nowhere close

IITK is quite good (especially for pure sciences) though

Πάρτη Κοηλί

What was your JEE rank?

I was born in Kanpur. :-)

ManishEarth

518

@ΠάρτηΚοηλί ah

Πάρτη Κοηλί

15:27

518? Epic.

But I soon shifted to Delhi.

JEE is very hard. Did you even prepare for it?

ManishEarth

@ΠάρτηΚοηλί yeah

But I didn't make it my sole life goal like many do :P

Πάρτη Κοηλί

@ManishEarth Exactly! lol

ManishEarth

I had tons of time to do other stuff

Πάρτη Κοηλί

You may be the most different IITian I ever knew.

ManishEarth

@ΠάρτηΚοηλί No, I'm just different from the stereotype

there are tons

Well, very few US IITians, but the rest...

Πάρτη Κοηλί

15:36

Why would an American come to India?

ManishEarth

Because my grandparents were getting old and my parents wanted to be with them,

Πάρτη Κοηλί

No, but the rest?

ManishEarth

the rest?

oh

i dunno

I just know that there were 12 (inc me) non-Indian citizens taking admission this year

Why did I know? Because there are policies about us (namely the supernumerary seat: Our seats are allotted later, and the number of seats for that branch is increased by one -- basically to not put an Indian at a disadvantage by bumping him out). And due to this my entire online procedure was borked. It. Just. Didn't. Work. (rather scary). We went there and then they told me the situation and not to worry about it. (basically the bank had not received an updated list or something)

Πάρτη Κοηλί

That's... interesting

Hmm

So it seems that IIT does not promote diversity.

ManishEarth

@ΠάρτηΚοηλί Huh? No.

It never put me at a disadvantage either

Basically, after the entire seat allotment has been done, they check the preferences and ranks of non-Indians

And allot us seats accordingly, without bumping out an indian seat (class strength increased by 1)

That's good for everyone

Also I think this is a government policy

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15:45

You love your country a lot.

I don't understand why it's not the case with me. :-\

ManishEarth

@ΠάρτηΚοηλί You should learn to love it

Πάρτη Κοηλί

@ManishEarth I just can't...

ManishEarth

I hate many things about India, but I don't bitch about it without reason :)

Also, due to my upbringing, I don't exactly identify with "my country"

As in, I don't understand the concept of "belonging" to a country as much

nationalism, etc

Or more accurately I understand these, just don't sympathize with them as much :s

You may be interested in quora.com/India/… (and the two linked answers)

Oh, also, someone had asked me the MIT thing by email (well, it was actually "why aren't you studying in the US with a footnote about MIT"

The answer is Family.

My parents had never wanted to settle there. After I and my sister were born, we sort of settled, but the plan was to go back at one point -- I had grandparents in India. So we did. I found it hard to adjust, but I managed. (We used to visit every year, so that helped).

Regarding education: Undergrad in the US isn't really worth the hype. People go to the US for undergrad primarily so that they may get a chance to settle. I have no such problem; with a US passport I can pop over any time I want with no trouble.

^^That's my answer

Πάρτη Κοηλί

16:21

Back.

@ManishEarth Nice to see that you're another Quoran.

ManishEarth

@ΠάρτηΚοηλί ha :)

I actually don't like Quora much

But people in IIT prefer it over SE

Πάρτη Κοηλί

Weird.

ManishEarth

Well, Quora is where you can post opinions and get into discussions

So they like it

Anyway, because most of my friends keep sharing interesting links, and because I tend to get sucked into the hole of must...answer...question, I participate too :P

Πάρτη Κοηλί

hah\a

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