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So I enter this institute, half an hour early ; I was always before time ; trying to get info of my batch. I didn't care much about who's the teacher, though I knew some. I came across a list that had all the names of the new joining students.

The normal mentality too struck me, finding known people.

So I started decoding the names in the list like all boys do :-

1. Known people - Finding all the names that sounded familiar from my school or through some other means.

2. Finding girls with Rare names - A theory that is 80% correct is that people are opposite to their names. Some will argue on this fact or they think they belong to the 20% but deal with it. It's true. Komal - is not at all Komal (Rather a Sumo wrestler). So a different name, like Arshiya... Yep! It may turn out good!

After checking the list up and down, I found one from my previous school that I knew - Vihaam. I knew him just because he was my classmate. Never really talked regularly, or did anything together but still remember him from Football camp. But I had a good impression of him in my mind -Helping, Kiddish, A fat kid, maybe a Good Friend.
Well! Better to have a known than No one! I waited sitting on first bench, for others to arrive in my batch and stared every face that entered.

Hopes were high for Beautiful girls.to enter, will not say was excited but not too bad. So the class filled up, and I didn't know a single person, Vihaam was nowhere too be seen.

The last thing I hoped was that the teacher I knew, or to say my Parents knew, don't turn out to be my teacher here. Not like he was bad, but it takes away a little freedom, knowing that there's a teacher who lives few blocks away and already familiar with your family. Teachers came, relief, wasn't the guy that I feared would come. So it turned out to be a good start.

I hoped that there would be Introduction on the first class, but rather a Shaggy Old guy, Stated with Derivatives.
OK! So just get on with it!

Now, Like every student in a New session in their first class, I stared at every word he wrote and figure he drew, trying to understand everything. If anyone saw me that moment, he would say I looked like that I was trying to Create a hole in the White Board with my stare. But no one saw me that time, because everyone else was doing the same thing.
The class ended! Phew tiring! Don't get me wrong but I've never been to a "Tuition" Before. I've never even studied for more than 1 hours in a Continuation. The 4 hours tuition a day concept really scared me, but I now it's going to be 4 times a week. So I have to prepare myself for better.

The day ended with another 2 classes. Walking back home I realized, it was nothing fancy, just another day, studying after a long break, Met no one, I didn't even know the name of my teachers (Can't remember if they told us).

Maybe tommorow?


-TBC-
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Pictures like the ones you are about to see have been surfacing more and more lately, as artists around the world feel compelled to respond to some of the ugliness they see in the world.
While it may be true that artists who truly have the courage to share their thoughts on important social issues are rare, it’s great to see their emergence becoming more frequent. Even in the music industry there has been a rise of artists who have something to say and want it to be heard by the masses. While the majority of artists are not in this space and artists who do speak out are met with resistance, it’s inspiring nonetheless when it does happen.

The art below draws on a wide range of controversial issues ranging from objectification of women, war and power, social media, political abuse of resources, public perception, religion, and more.
These images may strike an unpleasant chord with some of you, but that’s okay. These are aspects of our world that we need to address. My recommendation when viewing this art is to take your time and be open, as it is of course open to interpretation. Please remember that art is open to subjective interpretation and reflects only one person’s view of the world. Feel free to share your take on the illustrations in the comment section below!
Viewer discretion is advised.
Obsession over social media attention
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Homophobia
5
Obesity in one direction, starvation in another10
The suppression of women in religion
8
Anything for more dollars15
Female genital mutilation
7
Once again…
4
Cell phone obsessed culture2
Money as a means for opportunity
14
Submissive and closed minded society
13
Objectification of women
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Thirst for oil
12
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Selling ourselves for attention
6Rooted in virtual worlds
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Heartless set of people
 Still into virtual love/lust
 Women usually have to make a choice between money, looks or love

 Slaves of these inventions



 Filters on our personality

 Brainwash literally
 Likecoholic(are you guys  likeocoholic?)


 Gadget zombies


* I could not find sources for all of the images so if you know the artists other than who I mentioned above please let me know!
Tech engineers are regarded as some of the smartest people in the world.
But even they have a hard time answering the brain teaser questions a lot of tech companies like to ask during job interviews. We went through Glassdoor to find some of the trickiest questions they get asked, and the best way to answer them.

Q1: How many trailing zeros are in the number 5! (5 factorial)?

Trickiest Questions Engineers Always Struggle To Answer In An Interview
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Asked to: Systems engineer at Google
Suggested answers:
Option 1: 5!=120. So there is 1 trailing zero.
Option 2: This sounds like one geared not so much towards getting the right answer, but getting to it the right way. If you think a bit and say "one", the interviewer will know you did it the brute-force way, doing the math. You'd get at the answer faster, and probably impress them more, if you think instead how many times a ten will be produced in doing that math, rather than what the actual result of the math will be.

Q2: You have two light bulbs at a 100-story building. You want to find the floor at which the bulbs will break when dropped. Find the floor using the least number of drops.

Trickiest Questions Engineers Always Struggle To Answer In An Interview
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Asked to: Software engineer at Facebook
Suggested answers:
Option 1: Start moving up in increments of 10 floors and dropping the bulb until it breaks (ie: drop from floor 10, if it doesn't break, drop from floor 20, etc.). Once the bulb breaks, move down to the floor before it broke on and start moving up floors in increments of one until the second bulb breaks. This results in a worst case scenario of 19 drops.
Option 2: 19 drops is not the best worst-case scenario... imagine trying floor 16, if it breaks, you try 1 - 15 and thats 16 tries. If it doesn't break, then try floor 31 and if it breaks, then try 17 - 30 (so 16 tries, including the try on floor 16). And on and on (45, 58, 70, 81, 91, 100). If you reach 91, you'll have tried 7 floors so far and if it doesn't break, then there's 9 more tries to get to 100 (thus 16 in the worst case.)

Q3: If you had 5,623 participants in a tournament, how many games would need to be played to determine the winner?

Trickiest Questions Engineers Always Struggle To Answer In An Interview
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Asked to: Manager at Amazon
Suggested answers:
Option 1: The interviewer is not looking for the right answer because there can be many. What he/she is looking for is your logical approach in solving the answer. So you could start by probing more is first I would like to understand if 5,623 participants represent the number of team or individuals. Then ask the next logical question based on the answer."
Option 2: 5,622. Assuming it is a single elimination tournament. All teams lose one game except the champs. It's always # of teams - 1.

Q4: There are 20 different socks of two types in a drawer in a completely dark room. What is the minimum number of socks you should grab to ensure you have a matching pair?

Trickiest Questions Engineers Always Struggle To Answer In An Interview
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Asked to: Software development engineer in test at Web trends
Suggested answer: I'm not a mathematician, statistician, or highly analytical but if you pick up three socks they could still be all of same type -- even if the odds are 50%. Odds do not equal reality. So the only way to 'ensure you have a matching pair' is to pick up 11 of the 20. This is the only foolproof guaranteed way to get a pair (in the real world and not the world of odds.)

Q5: If you have a square room with no roof, and you had four flagpoles you had to plant on the walls so that each flagpole touched two walls, how would you do it?

Trickiest Questions Engineers Always Struggle To Answer In An Interview
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Asked to: Software engineer at Cisco
Suggested answer: The answer was that by planting them on the corners, each one is touching two walls because each corner is part of two walls. I wanted to pierce two walls with a pole horizontally too. They said it was an innovative solution.

Q6: There are 9 balls all of which weigh the same except one, what is the minimum weighings necessary to find the ball weighs more (or less)?

Trickiest Questions Engineers Always Struggle To Answer In An Interview
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Asked to: Software engineer at DE Shaw & Co
Suggested answer: You could do this with two weighings assuming its a two pan balance -- (1) place three balls on each side if they balance out then its the remaining three that has abnormal ball (2) out of that group, place one ball on each side - if balances it out, the abnormal ball is the remaining one. If the weighing in step (1) does not balance out, grab the group of three balls that is light or heavy and repeat step (2) described above."

Q7: You have 2 pieces of rope, each of which burns from one end to the other in 30 minutes (no matter which end is lit). If different pieces touch, the flame will transfer from one to the other. You cannot assume any rope properties that were not stated. Given only 1 match, can you time 45 minutes?

Trickiest Questions Engineers Always Struggle To Answer In An Interview
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Asked to: ASIC Verification engineer at Zoran
Suggested answer: Take one rope (Rope A), place it down as a circle. Light match and start burning rope A at the tips that are touching. When the rope completely burns out, 15 minutes will have passed (since both ends are burning and being consumed at once). Hold the second rope (Rope B) straight and place one end so that it will immediately catch fire when the two burning points from (Rope A) finally touch and are just about to burn out. Thus 15 minutes on Rope A + 30 minutes on Rope B gives you 45 mins.
Make a T. Simple

Q8: In front of you are three light switches. Only one does anything, and it turns on the light downstairs. From here you can't see the light, and it makes no sound. You must determine which switch operates the light, but you can only go check it once. How do you figure out which switch is for the light?


Trickiest Questions Engineers Always Struggle To Answer In An Interview
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Asked to: Software engineer at Raytheon
Suggested answer: Flip any switch you want. Wait for about 5-10 minutes to let the bulb heat up. Flip that same switch off, and another one on. Go check the light. If it's off and hot, it was the first switch, if it's on it was the second and if it's cold and off, it was the last one.
Introduction

Well, I'll start off by introducing myself and what I'll post that would go for a long time.

This is real life experience of engineering aspirants or Non Med students that all others can relate.

I live in Chandigarh, been here for a long time. The motive I came here from a small town was, as my father describes, for better education.
I agree with him, he put me in a good school that developed me in all fields and made me capable to go further anywhere. Till 10th I enjoyed my school life. Some students will say it sucked but for me it was best time of my life.

But after 10th you have to choose a subject and from a school student, you become a tuition tot. So leaving all the memories behind, I leaped into my new life - " Non Medical Student".

I entered the field unknowing of future studies , but just for the fact that a successful engineer is a big earner. A big earner has a better life. Better life means better options and more freedom. So for all the things -> You have to be a Successful Engineer. And for that you need to be in some Big Institute, that promises that we will train you in such a way that you will crack IIT. *Laughs*

Also because my 6th grade HINDI teacher told my Mom that I will become a scientist because I wrote a good essay on it (Which I copied from google).
And Guidance issue -> I have no IITians, NITians or any type of Science student in my family that I know. All are in business related activity. If I had some brother /Sister /Cousin doing non med, they would have come and already explain to me what was it.

So with this lack of Guidance and high in hopes with good CGPA in 10th grade I joined a famous Top institute "Sky-IITJee ". The total fees for my 2 years study that I can recall was 2.2 lacks that included Tuition fees, books, accessories like Bag, an ugly sweatshirt, 20 benches that were converted into canvas by me and taxes (Don't forget to pay Taxes).

The tuition was the beginning of my new ride.

TBC


There’s no dearth of humor  in this world. Here are some tl;dr (too long; did not read) one liners that perfectly describe these 25 countries in the world. Pun intended!