I think you all can guess what I am referring to.

The X word.

We finally received our exam schedules, after weeks of general headless chicken running around. I’m the sort of person who timetables everything, so a concrete schedule for the exams is very helpful in terms of planning. Still, turns out that all my heavy reading exams are in same week – not sure how I’ll deal with that.

On a lighter note, I got a new mobile phone! It’s a BlackBerry Curve, and its slick and white. I liked my old Sony Ericsson flip phone (once upon a time those things were all the rage), but I guess its time for a change. The biggest shock for me is that I can actually text properly. With my old phone I used to txt lyk dis cos it was fster, n 2 save space, but now I can type full words! And the best thing is my thumb doesn’t spasm anymore…

Connecting to the Imperial Wi-Fi was a bit of a pain, but with the help of Tanya, Andrew and Anas’ Blog it all worked out

The other fun thing was that the WSET We.Are.Science Photo Exhibition launch took place today! If you’ve been to the Imperial Homepage, you will have seen some of the awesome entries we got. This big event was professionally organized by Ivy and Mithila, and of course Aiman (they are WSET committee members). I think my favourite photos were:

1. Women scientific leaders – Don’t worry this is not a feminist thing lol. I just thought the model was amazing and full of attitude (and a lab coat).

2. Drawing a bat wing – A brown and white photo depicting team work. Only the hands are featured.

3. I love electrochemistry! – A very fun and cute picture.

4. The pigeon – Wait, what? Yes, apparently someone submitted a stunningly professional photo of a pigeon. Not sure what that is supposed to signify, but it was very fat and fluffy. Hmm.

Which one is your favourite? Don’t forget to vote! The ballot is located in the Business School all week.

That’s all for now!

One World Week is old stuff now, but my friend Aiman found this video that I hadn’t seen before floating around the imperial website:

http://www2.imperial.ac.uk/imedia/videos/view/566/one-world-week/search:one%20world%20week

It’s me and a few other students who organized One World Week giving their opinions about it. Must say I look very Indian with my plait and the ‘dot-on-the-forehead’ (we call it ‘kum-kum’).

On the subject of me, my WSET portrait is also now in City Hall! This will be its new home until the 19 of March. Let me elucidate a little: Last year’s WSET ’100 Visions 100 Women’ portrait project was wildly successful. So this year the organizer Ellin decided to take things a step further and promote the project on a city-wide level, a truly commendable achievement.

I haven’t gone to see the portraits yet, but hopefully I will soon. It feels amazing that people and tourists from all over London can visit them! One of the goals of this portrait series is to inspire the next generation of students (not just girls) to follow the SET path. It would be fantastic if these portraits even persuaded someone to consider engineering as a future career when they normally wouldn’t have.

Anyway; I could go on about this (as I am the Vice-President of WSET), but I think I have tackled this topic enough in my EI lecture and ‘the way here’ page (*shameless plug-in* links to the right).

In all my enthusiasm about WSET events, I seem to be forgetting that I’m also president of ICSEDS (Imperial College Students for the Exploration and Development of Space). Recently I have begun to feel that I’m ignoring this club. I have made the classic rookie mistake of joining/being in charge of way too many societies. So I’m beginning to worry a little, but not nearly as much as I am worrying about our Design, Make and Test project…

…I think I mentioned in a very early post that I am part of the Imperial Racing Green team. A group of students get together to make a zero emissions car that will race at Silverstone. While this project will be extremely rewarding when we watch our finished product race next year, the process of getting there is really strenuous. Our designs must not only be compatible with the rest of the groups (i.e. our team, the Drivetrain team needs to make sure our stuff doesn’t interfere with suspension and vehicle packaging for example), it also needs to perform well. I remember spending countless nights worrying that our design would not come together…Luckily our designs are now complete, but we only have 5 weeks to manufacture everything! Which may seem like plenty, but when we were kids, 5 minutes sounded like a lot too.

The blue shoes? That’s just a random thing I thought up to make the title rhyme. How about my blue shirt instead?

Portraits hanging in City Hall