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Hello there. I am a research scholar with a Ph.D in biology from the National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore, India. Passionate about science, I never cease to be amazed by the wonders in the world of chemistry and living matter. Learning new skills, cultivating new hobbies and exploring is what I do to keep the freshness alive and bring in excitement to my otherwise mundane lifestyle. I believe in living life by my own rules because I alone know what it is like to be me.

Friday, September 3, 2010

NOTHING BEATS IIT!

T’was once upon a time
Bengalis, Telugus and aTamilian
All congregated in the hall
To learn from those great minds
And Bengalis and Telugus were of opposite polarity
With very weak Vanderwaal forces between them
As time passed, Hydrogen bonds were formed between them
And now Ionic bonds have replaced these bonds.


I’m in IIT and I ‘m great
I’m in chemistry and Im great
I work all night and sleep all day

I like my professors. I like my work .
I work with nasty chemicals
That inititate spectral transitions within my face
And cause it to redden
Sometimes I end up throwing the other fellow’s hard earned product

Chemical bonds between classmates
Are of various types-sigma,coordinate,ionic and pi
But the strongest ones are
Among those with even parity and maximum orbital overlap


I prowl the library all day
And the articles that I could use
Are gone when they’re needed

Come exam time
The time for me to stir, recrystallise and rotavap
And come out new
Before exam,tempers run high
Students change their conformers
From being most stable to the least stable.
Increasing the repulsion energy between them

After exam the excess energy is dissipiated
And thus,a “relaxation effect” occurs
Which stabilises the chemical bonds between students
And things are fine again
Till the next perturbatuion occurs

As wavelength of light strikes our retina
From the answer paper carrying our marks
Our electrons either get excited to the highest energy level
Or drool and undergo inversion of spin

As time passes, the ‘like’ for one subject
Is subsituted nucleophilcally by the ‘love’ for the same

Time always seems so short
That I wish I could teleport

Since I first came here,
The Earth has made 365 rotations about its own axis
And it has another 365 rotations to complete
Before I leave this place
So lets not get sentimental
But make full use of the opportunities here

Adieu!