Another boring week. But the good thing was that the weather improved. It just feels so liberating to move about in the balmy sun without those extra layers. If the temperature keeps up to this trend, I would very well be writing the mid-sems in shorts \m/ The weather also helps a bit in keeping up with my resolve of hitting the gym as frequently as possible.
This week witnessed some frenzied activity on my side. Though I can recall just one any right now, significantly less number of post-it notes next to my study table does validate my claim. Coming to the task I ticked off, I finalized my essay and project topics for the Behavioral Economics course. For the project, I decided to work on identifying key drivers of social networks in IIT-K students. I had initially thought of a simplified version of this project for the Social Media Analytics project but had ditched it for the lack of data. And then in a random discussion with Shoan at CCD, a scope for improvisation struck me and I decided to pursue the idea.
For the essay, I took inspiration from the much-needed crusade against unfair means in IIT-K. I plan to use research from Dan Ariely's 'Honest Truth About Dishonesty' and apply them to common cheating practices I have observed over the past years to come up with (maybe?) feasible solutions. I am pretty excited about both the project and the essay given that they are in ideation stage. As I have experienced quite often, this expected is expected to fizzle off quickly with every passing day towards deadline.
This week witnessed some frenzied activity on my side. Though I can recall just one any right now, significantly less number of post-it notes next to my study table does validate my claim. Coming to the task I ticked off, I finalized my essay and project topics for the Behavioral Economics course. For the project, I decided to work on identifying key drivers of social networks in IIT-K students. I had initially thought of a simplified version of this project for the Social Media Analytics project but had ditched it for the lack of data. And then in a random discussion with Shoan at CCD, a scope for improvisation struck me and I decided to pursue the idea.
For the essay, I took inspiration from the much-needed crusade against unfair means in IIT-K. I plan to use research from Dan Ariely's 'Honest Truth About Dishonesty' and apply them to common cheating practices I have observed over the past years to come up with (maybe?) feasible solutions. I am pretty excited about both the project and the essay given that they are in ideation stage. As I have experienced quite often, this expected is expected to fizzle off quickly with every passing day towards deadline.
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