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    <copyright>Copyright 2005-2006, Rajesh Kumar</copyright>
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      <title>Building the Connection</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sometimes, I wish some of the really cool people I know would just let me into their life and permit me to be a fly on the wall there. But of course, I have no clue how to get started. I could always make small talk, but I hate small [...] (398 words)]]></description>
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      <title>Constructive Procrastination Redux</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Also commonly referred to as effective procrastination, or even proactive procrastination, this is a topic that's been discussed at length by several productivity gurus across the internet. It's a highly strategic technique that I too have been using successfully for many years now. I just don't know how I haven't [...] (788 words)]]></description>
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      <title>Obstacle Race</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A bit over 2 years ago, I wrote a blog post on setting goals and why it sometimes made no sense to set them. Today, I'd like to talk about executing on a goal I had set for myself nearly 3 months ago.  In December 2010, just shortly before I left for my [...] (3582 words)]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[In addition to the Matthew effect, one of the most important principles of triaging that is a must-know for every person who goes through University is the Pareto Principle. Also commonly known as the 80/20 rule, the adapted Pareto Principle states that for a lot of things in life, and especially [...] (1386 words)]]></description>
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      <title>Oct 15, 2009</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dear Diary.  The 4A term in Nanotechnology Engineering was perhaps the busiest term in my entire undergraduate career.  Being the ambitious type, I had two extra courses more than everyone else in the class, for a grand total of 8.75 courses. This alone meant I had 10-12 hours less per week [...] (1293 words)]]></description>
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      <title>The Clipper Card</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[On Aug 3rd 2010, I obtained two free Clipper cards from the local Walgreens store on my way back home from work. I added $20 to one of them to try it out. The Clipper card is a simple debit card that combines the payment and pass systems of all the transit [...] (830 words)]]></description>
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      <title>Why I Like Travel</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Some people travel because it's a break from their normal flow of life.  Some people travel because they like to expose themselves to new places, new food, and new cultures.  Some people like to travel because it makes other people feel jealous.  Some people like to travel for the sake [...] (470 words)]]></description>
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      <title>Waterloo's Message</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every city sends a message says Paul Graham, but what message does Waterloo send? Does it even send a message at all? How subtle is this message if there exists one? A lot of people here seem to think the message Waterloo sends is to be creative, innovative, and ambitious. [...] (1031 words)]]></description>
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      <title>Examinations: A Retrospective</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[From grades 1-7, I was forced to take 7 subjects a year. The subjects were always the same: Maths (not Math, but Maths), Science, Moral Science (hehe), English, Social Studies, Hindi, and Arabic. Each of these courses had 3 exams a year: a quarterly, a half-yearly, and an annual. That was 147 exams [...] (713 words)]]></description>
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      <title>The CO 370 Midterm</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[On Feb 22 2010, I wrote the hardest exam of my entire undergraduate career. The 2-hour CO 370 midterm exam designed by Prof. Ricardo Fukasawa of the combinatorics and optimization department at the University of Waterloo was perhaps one of the best well-designed exams I had ever seen to date.  I felt that [...] (895 words)]]></description>
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