Hello This blog captures my journey through four transformative years at Amrita University’s Amritapuri campus during my undergraduate studies. I write this both as a chronicle of the experiences that shaped me and as a tribute to my 18-year-old self who first stepped onto this campus, as well as to the remarkable individuals I’ve met along the way. I began writing these reflections during my final months at the university, looking back with the perspective that comes from maturity and distance. What you’ll read here represents the pivotal moments that significantly influenced my development, from a high school graduate with ambitious dreams to a more complete and self-aware individual ready to embark on the next chapter. With this blog, I intend to offer readers — both those who know me and new ones who discover it — insights into my personal journey throughout these formative college years.

A collection of links to the interesting things I find on the internet. Blogs 🔗 They’re Made out of Meat Cities and Ambition - Paul Graham What Should You Do with Your Life? Directions and Advice Is God a Taoist? Just know stuff Smart Questions Websites 🔗 Folklore Fucking website Tweets 🔗 # on shortification of “learning” - Andrej Karpathy Neural network optimization mystry Go for a run Living Code

A collection of books that I’ve read and found interesting in no particular order along with a short summary and my thoughts on it. I will keep adding to the list as I read more books. Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond (Currently Reading): Explores the reasons for domination of few cultures over others including resource availability, social organization and technological advancements. More detailed and descriptive than Sapiens. Will add more details once I finish reading it.

It’s been almost a year since the Hackathon and I am finding the motivation to write about it now. I am not sure why it took me so long to write. Probably because I’m lazy and the current semester break has left me with some extra time in which I find myself doing the random small things that I have been putting off for a long time. Anyway, coming to the Hackathon, it was Hackverse 4.0 conducted by NITK-Surathkal and Devfolio. As with most of the hackathons that I participated in, it began with RV(Rajagopalan) sending the link to the hackathon and asking if we should participate in it. This was at the beginning of our 4th Semester when we completed our GSoC proposal submission when we all were pretty free and were looking for something to do. So the next evening in the amFOSS lab, we asked everyone if they were interested in participating and started forming teams. Unlike the usual team size of up to 4 members for hackathons, Hackverse only allowed a team size of up to 3. Initially, 9 of us were interested in participating and formed 4 teams in which I, Aashray and Abhinav were together.