Dear sir,
658 days since my last email. In layman's terms, I would classify this time span to be ridiculous.
I would rather not begin with the natural etiquettes of an email that inquired about your well being. I know you are well, you were never one to let material troubles bother your person.
It might be hard to believe but I have been keeping up with Prachyanat's performances - I know the last performace wasShylock & Sycophants, and I have been trying to guess the storyline, an endeavour in which I have succeeded to my own imaginary avail.
As it is more than evident by the choppy sentence structure and the abhorrent grammar, engineering school has robbed me of the abilities of the pen. But i can make a pen now, but that again is a big cost to pay.
I find it hard to believe that I am a sophomore, because I clearly remember writing every single college application essaysand emailing them to you. But college is good, academics is not. To be brutally honest with you, my GPA is a 2.90, and I am trying my level best to pull it up. Georgia Tech isnt easy, but I love it here. Machines and Dynamics of subatomic particles.... I have found out the hard way that those are the things I like, and not manufacturing cargo-crafts for NASA. And I like the fact that I am looking towards something to work towards in life.
Straying from that, there are some things I have to tell you. As you may remember from my "Why essays," I would incorporate a-capella groups and research groups into ALL of them (yes i mean all of them), and how you reprimanded me by calling attention to the fact that I was falling into a format in writing Why Essays, and hence compromising my literary flexibility. But I never listened to you. That is one thing I do NOT regret listening to.
Why I mention this small specific detail is that right now I am part of a group called Engineering World Health (www.ewh.com) It is not directly related to my major, but I could care less, because what we basically do is that every weekend, we go to warehouses full of old/slightly defective medical equipment, fix it, and arrange to ship it to medical organisations in third-world countries for free. I can tell you hands down that I would not achieve this much satisfaction from fixing the suspension circuits in a car. I would much rather fix the simple circuit in a machine operated hospital bed.
That is not all, I do not know if I mentioned this, but my first semester, I joined an a-capella group. It wasnt that popular at all. a year later, I am one of its 3 co-captains, and we have performed twice at the Georgia World Congress Center. Tomorrow we perform in Georgia Tech. The day after, we perform at Georgia State University. Next weekend, we are performing atDuke University. Next to next weekend, we perform at Carnegie Mellon University. And next semester, we are scheduled forUniversity of Georgia, U.Iowa, and UNC-Chapell Hill. You know the best part? all the performances this semester are Invitationals, they WANT us to perform. I dont intend to sound obnoxious, its just we have never gotten to perform without auditioning.
All that said, one of the many reasons that I havent written to you in a while is that I felt that I had betrayed your trust by not going for the liberal arts experience. I dont know if I regret it, probably not, I like what im doing, I just wish I was better.
Also, I cannot believe i havent talked to you in so long. Please do let me know how applications are going right about now, there are people probably giving their SAT subject tests tomorrow if I am not mistaken.
You were my mentor for the college application process and I respect you a lot for it. Probably the reason a lot of people dont keep in touch is that statistically speaking, most all people try to shake off their past. In the fast moving world we are living in, people who even glance at the past are labeled as old fashioned, and nobody wants to be labeled as anything detrimental. And I know you know all of this, I am just mentioning what I feel is a slight justification of the lack of communication with one's mentor.
It was good telling you all this, have been meaning to for a while. By the way, I had seen your interview regarding the rescripting of Shakespeare in Bangla. Please do let me know how that is going.
P.S Wow, first time sending you an email without an essay attached, feels very weird.
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Safeer
658 days since my last email. In layman's terms, I would classify this time span to be ridiculous.
I would rather not begin with the natural etiquettes of an email that inquired about your well being. I know you are well, you were never one to let material troubles bother your person.
It might be hard to believe but I have been keeping up with Prachyanat's performances - I know the last performace wasShylock & Sycophants, and I have been trying to guess the storyline, an endeavour in which I have succeeded to my own imaginary avail.
As it is more than evident by the choppy sentence structure and the abhorrent grammar, engineering school has robbed me of the abilities of the pen. But i can make a pen now, but that again is a big cost to pay.
I find it hard to believe that I am a sophomore, because I clearly remember writing every single college application essaysand emailing them to you. But college is good, academics is not. To be brutally honest with you, my GPA is a 2.90, and I am trying my level best to pull it up. Georgia Tech isnt easy, but I love it here. Machines and Dynamics of subatomic particles.... I have found out the hard way that those are the things I like, and not manufacturing cargo-crafts for NASA. And I like the fact that I am looking towards something to work towards in life.
Straying from that, there are some things I have to tell you. As you may remember from my "Why essays," I would incorporate a-capella groups and research groups into ALL of them (yes i mean all of them), and how you reprimanded me by calling attention to the fact that I was falling into a format in writing Why Essays, and hence compromising my literary flexibility. But I never listened to you. That is one thing I do NOT regret listening to.
Why I mention this small specific detail is that right now I am part of a group called Engineering World Health (www.ewh.com) It is not directly related to my major, but I could care less, because what we basically do is that every weekend, we go to warehouses full of old/slightly defective medical equipment, fix it, and arrange to ship it to medical organisations in third-world countries for free. I can tell you hands down that I would not achieve this much satisfaction from fixing the suspension circuits in a car. I would much rather fix the simple circuit in a machine operated hospital bed.
That is not all, I do not know if I mentioned this, but my first semester, I joined an a-capella group. It wasnt that popular at all. a year later, I am one of its 3 co-captains, and we have performed twice at the Georgia World Congress Center. Tomorrow we perform in Georgia Tech. The day after, we perform at Georgia State University. Next weekend, we are performing atDuke University. Next to next weekend, we perform at Carnegie Mellon University. And next semester, we are scheduled forUniversity of Georgia, U.Iowa, and UNC-Chapell Hill. You know the best part? all the performances this semester are Invitationals, they WANT us to perform. I dont intend to sound obnoxious, its just we have never gotten to perform without auditioning.
All that said, one of the many reasons that I havent written to you in a while is that I felt that I had betrayed your trust by not going for the liberal arts experience. I dont know if I regret it, probably not, I like what im doing, I just wish I was better.
Also, I cannot believe i havent talked to you in so long. Please do let me know how applications are going right about now, there are people probably giving their SAT subject tests tomorrow if I am not mistaken.
You were my mentor for the college application process and I respect you a lot for it. Probably the reason a lot of people dont keep in touch is that statistically speaking, most all people try to shake off their past. In the fast moving world we are living in, people who even glance at the past are labeled as old fashioned, and nobody wants to be labeled as anything detrimental. And I know you know all of this, I am just mentioning what I feel is a slight justification of the lack of communication with one's mentor.
It was good telling you all this, have been meaning to for a while. By the way, I had seen your interview regarding the rescripting of Shakespeare in Bangla. Please do let me know how that is going.
P.S Wow, first time sending you an email without an essay attached, feels very weird.
--
Safeer
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