Thank you 2012!

As the last day of 2012 ticks it way in my clock I have my eyes closed trying to recollect whatever I can from this truly wonderful year. 4^th semester had begun bravely with reining my heart over the bitter cease of an ostensibly infamous ad-hoc relationship. The loose ends however were luckily tightened by the love and care of a true friend who turned out to be more than that. The excitement of a foreign internship pervaded deep in the skin to be affected by the random gusts of ocular trauma. The summers came soon enough revolutionizing my life in several ways. Friendship, professionalism, inspiration, motivation, hardwork and happiness were at their zenith. I couldn’t have asked for more. The amount of experience and emotions that the life of research has to offer is overwhelming. I consider myself to be lucky, extremely lucky, to have realized the worth of academia in my life. The end is hazy but the path is clear. With the things I have absorbed and the things I’ve let out, I can just hope to live up to my own expectations. None other’s matter. With South Korea coming to an end in my journey, leaving me with a thought that I probably might not go back ever to this beautiful country, I was aware that I was taking back much more from it than I possibly contributed. I was happy to have rediscovered my own college. However, the internship filled me with a desire to run behind stats more than ever. It led to some erroneous judgments and falsification of the very aims with which I began the 5^th semester.  I paid the price of going awry but was glad to have realized it soon enough. Having already being overwhelmed with the experience of the summer internship, I was ecstatic and almost drunk with the joy and excitement to get selected for the Indo-German winter academy. It was a neat packaged, ribbon tied Christmas gift of new friends and some of the brightest minds of the country. Apart from the academic and learning experience in the field of fluids mechanics of course. The academy proved to be another high point before the culmination of this year, after South Korea. The vacation in Pune city this December of 2012 was surreal. Got to spend some of the most exciting, scary, lucky and lovely days of my life. I had never believed in using New Year as an excuse for a fresh start or having a set of resolutions. I believed in starting fresh or setting an aim whenever I felt strongly about doing so. However with some series of events synchronously falling with the beginning of the New Year might apparently disguise my aims as resolutions. So yes, I do plan to change certain things. For the better for sure. Let’s see what 2013 has in store. Have always loved this unpredictability of life and damn I am excited. Thank you 2012. I am grateful for everyone and everything that happened to me. Trying to be a better person, every second.