Reminiscent of Carbondale 11/12 and Inspiring : Five L

January 5, 2013

Its been almost three weeks after my graduation. Graduating again after ten years!! After applying for more than 150 job applications, I started getting opportunities to have phone interviews. I had more than thirty interviews, each of them lasting almost an hour,  and more than dozen were in queues. Four of them were for on site interviews. 

December 15, 2012, Carbondale, SIUC

  All those on-site job interviews coincidentally started with loving – L. Alphabets in Laramie, Lawrence, Louisville, Little Rock and St. Louis. That was a co-incidence. I don't think I did biased sampling or any statistician can figure out the degree of uncertainty of other places and correlation among these L.I used first in first out (FIFO) queue the fundamental queuing theory , I accepted the offer.................., yes!!  I have my first job offer and I have decided to move to Lawrence, Kansas,  one of the best ten college town in nation,. I am excited and thrilled to move to start my first job after a long grad school.

way to Kansas, few months earlier...!

It was so painful for me to cancel all other four interviews of the next weeks. They have already booked the planes and hotels. But I just wanted to be honest and I liked the small team and the office environment that specialized on knowledge management, I got it in the first shot. I was unemployed for four days !! Gosh! It was a holiday that slugged the hiring manager's spirit. On numbers, I will be unemployed for 13 days.

Evergreen Terrace , after a heavy snow fall!!

 
The academic journey was over on December 15. I remember every days I spent at Carbondale for last 784 days (This is not an absolute measure...), Numbers are just a numbers. I will be missing Carbondale more than ever. Few weeks back to release the stress, I went to watch a movie This is 40, paul and leslie's wonderful settings navigated me towards a ten years ahead of my life. It was so much of great inner feelings yet  cunningly fishy and too much of romantic drama. Oh ! I started getting scared of future. Hmm...who invented time ? Stop the clock forever and see...This is 19.

EGIS labs, the clock tower, Evergreen Terrace Park, The Reservoir , PK's , Hanger 9, the train;s sound at midnight ',  Dancing in Cali's, the university lake,Morris Library, soccer ground, rec-center, …......my poor bike are some of entities that I will be remembering in my tributaries forever. I will miss all of you and all of my friends who were always helpful to me. I am always with you, those memories will always encircled around the tangent  that passes through the grey matter of my life everyday.The spirit of graduation day  and strong sense of confidence that I got from the SIU really helped me to mold my personal and professional goals. I salute all of them who were part of it and helped me in this transition.

My poor bike, Carbondale, IL December, 2012

Some mind-boggling memories were: Grassy Lake trip, Kentucky Cadiz Trip, Garden of Gods, SSA, Getting Lost in Little Grand Canyon, Alto Pass, winery-trip, berry picking, cultural show, dipawoli night, Giant City, driving to new york,the last new year dance at NJ , Trip to Kentucky, Scuba Diving, Summer Concerts, chalking for SSA, Julie's Sustainable Class, Hexmoor Agent Based Modeling Class, Creation museum trip to Kentucy with SSA folks, and other endless happenings at Carbondale, you all are all part of me. Eric's insatiable quest of knowledge domain!, Something I always remember forever and appreciate.I miss you all!

More than eight inch of snows in Carbondale was something I never saw in the last two years ( its very small number again...lol ), it was so much fun to play with snow in the last week of stay at carbondale, we walked all over the snow and enjoyed the kids skiing  in their boards in Carbondale reservoir.

Then driving here and there for a job interviews were even more hectic and stressful. Now I am little bit stressed with moving, arranging the logistics, needs to pack off my stuffs and move ahead.

Yep...I am a Kansas boy now. Lawrence, Kansas! Welcome to the America's top 10 college towns. I will be moving there this week. Oh! Ya at last, I went to watch a movie Jack Reacher! yesterday, I remember the words of  Tom Cruise. Why the person serve military ?

1. To maintain the family tradition

2. To be a patriot

3. To get  a job

4. To kill a people.

Let me add one more, I became military to be a pacifist! Here it ends the story of transition of being student and civilian for last two years.I will start my new blog living in “Lawrence : Navigating 360 degrees”. And this will officially complete my blog TRANSITION!!

I love you and miss you Carbondale.

January 6 2013 Evergreen Terrace Carbondale

Fall of 2012:Reinventing Myself....

  Light At The End of The Tunnel : source: vidomosti-ua.com

Time was moving faster than ever and the life is traversing through the continuum of  metamorphosis, swinging like a virtuous cycle of weather in mid-west. The change would be inherently different and complete the transition to civilian life as a student at SIU for two years. It was a remarkable experience in terms of culture and academic career. Now, it’s less than 18 official days in Carbondale. The days were extremely busy, fast, and exciting with the last cycle of academic stress fading away faster than ever. Spending endless and seamless time in EGIS lab, wondering about the where I will be gone in next few weeks. Thinking about careers and interview cycles, and wondering about the spatial cubicle where I am going to fit.

The last six weeks has been like speeding a car in 500 miles per an hour in stress and enjoyment, the juxtaposition of  life. The most fantastic and mind boggling lectures of Agent based modeling entrapped with the phenomenal articulation of Hexmoor that certainly has the royal blend of appreciation and motivation. The course navigates you in the extremes of two different sciences, the logics of metaphysics and knitty-gritty of computing systems intercoupled with natural adaptive systems. The phenomenal examples of social and natural science theories that have rich ingredients of agents and multi agents’  systems that human always envision of , compels researcher's on developing these complex adaptive systems by analyzing the microscopic behavior of  natural agents.  Evidently, it became the best class I ever took at SIU and elsewhere in my life, leaving the intellectual residues inside my grey matter.

The volleyball and soccer games that rejuvenated the spirit of sportsmanship and helped to stretch our muscles  and helped to feel the helm of nature. Irony to that, we had to limit our self to participation in matches without any glorious victory that we always dreamed of. Nevertheless, it was fun while playing in a team, appreciating the sports and feelings the nice and beautiful weather, and lovely football ground of SIU near the Clock tower in Carbondale.


The sinusoidal wave of climate curve in mid-west and getting acclimatized with ups and down of nature. Intercoupled with the climate behavior, the climate of politics was also intertwined into grooves of concentric circles that have always been difficult to traverse. The global security issues that’s lingering for ages in middle east seems more escalated and triggered, the Libya and uprising of Arab Springs were a global political debate. The American presidential debate of Obama and Romney created the synergy of political wave in the multi facet dimensions of national, regional, and global scale inside and outside of America. The downfall of Obama in the first debate and the bouncing back in third presidential debate along with the grinning of Joe Biden has been ratified by the people of America. The lesson: we need better health care, education, jobs and immigration reform. Will Obama be able to keep these promises? - Without the help of republicans in congress! , his close allies and Americans. Good luck to president in solving the chaos of economic downturn, regional and global issues, and expectation of American dreams. The country has been highly polarized in the decades with red and blue. Obama’s most astounding address at 130 in the morning, the day he was reelected the president, was the foundations of ideologies that are sparkled in the mind of  majority of Americans.

The other day, we spend endless hours talking about society, politics, imperialism and socialism. We know we are not going to change the world and I don’t want it either but it’s always fascinating when Eric, Diwas , and myself get together and deeply indulged in social science deemed in the false virtual hope by pretending like a social scientist and architect. It’s getting cold and I feel like I have to stop riding my bike but I felt like I love this bike more than everything else. The bike will be in craig-list soon!! Sorry dude…..! I am fanatically poor.

The job interviews were cunningly interesting in the beginning but used to be the same rhetoric of similar questions. It was fun to talk with many people and experience the interview processes. Some of them were very difficult and I realized I need to spend 6 hours credit course of mastering it. I am still in the process of getting a job but overwhelmingly excited and motivated because of these interviews. The first on-site interview was at St. Louis, and then I traveled to Little Rock for another interview and will be traveling to Denver next week. It was great experience and learning something out of the box in life.


The changing leaves at the Garden of Gods, the sediment rocks and the 360 degrees views of Shawnee national forest showed the glimpse of natural beauty of southern Illinois. The Indian Cultural night and my performance as a Maharashtra lad was fanatic if not utterly lunatic,- I don’t know anything about the culture and a dress that I was wearing that day. It was second experience in a year doing a stage performance in front of hundreds of people, thanks Carbondale you taught me that!

General David Patreaus fall down was shocking to me but it was a retrospect of masculine glitch. Nevertheless, the general will always be saluted for his long career in armed force and making the war strategies and doctrines. I still remember when consular officer asked me about whom really I admire? when I was interviewed for US visa in May 2008. Being a military officer, I gave him the solid snapshot of General Patreaus who was commanding the force in Iraq in 2008.

November 2012, Murphysboro, IL - Little Grand Canyon

Watching James Bond Sky fall, 23rd installment of Bond series at Carbondale mall was exhilarating experience although I like Pierce Brosnan than Daniel Craig. Surprisingly, this theatre was almost full for the first time in Carbondale. It was great experience to watch with so many peoples in the Theatres. I don't watch movies in Television or Laptops because I don't have a good one or maybe I love to watch with many people. Again, hiking at Little Grand Canyon for the last time of the year where we saw fallen leaves and beautiful scenic. It was an incredible experience.

Carbondale got deserted!! Oh I just realize it was Thanks Giving! Week. Enjoy the holiday season and I look forward to spend wonderful time for next 18 days at Carbondale officially!..D+18