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24th March 2013   I am definitely posting this here very late. This is my colloquium paper written during Semester 9 of my course at MIT ID. If you don't know what a colloquium paper is, it's a paper that you write in your final year that shows your growth in thinking as a designer. It can be written on any topic of your choice and has to be more of less than 12 pages of text. I'm not generally very good at writing research papers. It also has to be 'colloquial', which means a c haracteristic of or appropriate to the spoken language or to writing that seeks the effect of speech; informal. 2. Relating to conversation; conversational. I would love to hear your views in the comment section. Thank-you for reading.  Nikhita Prabhudesai Topic: Understanding the mutual communication between man and dog.  Description: A paper about understanding how dogs have developed ways to communicate with humans over the years, and how they prove to help us become be...

29th March 2012 I found this super old post in my hard disk that I'd written as a sticky note. Just tells me how it was this time of the year, last year! Today. Was very eventful indeed. I am now in the AC lab feeling a bit better, but - nature literally chose to attack me today. :( I feel terribly dirty. First the canteen fellow used the same cloth he used to wipe the window sill, the rust under the stove etc. to wipe the tawa that is used to cook the dosa on. And I actually ate it! I'm getting immune to the bad hygiene. These days I switch my brain off so I stop caring about whats being put in my mouth. Later today I played Frisbee and a fly went into my nose while I was running! And I tried to blow it out, but I dunno if it managed to escape what would seem like a tunnel of grime to the insect. Another one bit my lower right eyelid for some unknown reason and it started to sting! By now I was having a really hard time telling myself all this was a co-incidence. The din...

13th March 2013 {Spoilers Ahead} I haven’t seen many Sci Fi movies, but this is definitely one of the best. The most unique thing that I noticed about this film was how man acts when he is by himself. It had a lot of underlying subtext of loneliness, and our purpose of existence in this life, on earth. I noticed the differences between the two main characters, even though they were the same person with the same memories, showing no two people are the same. My favourite part of the film was when Sam2 takes Sam1 back to the truck where he found him, proving to be a good guy after all. Sam2 saves his life, and it is Sam1 who takes him to his end. He changed a lot from the start to the end, and his character learnt how to tame his anger and to think and construct the way Sam1 did. The film starts with Sam2 waking up in the ‘incinerator’, making you feel that he is actually Sam1 saved. I liked the relationship between Sam1 and Sam2 and how they don’t overreact when they rea...