Personal Blog Archive - Saad Bhamla

Personal Blog Archive

Using WordPress for my blog, I’ve realized that at any given time, only select posts are shown on the landing page. Hence I’ve created this page to serve as a chronological archive for all my writings.

2013 • 2012 • 2011 • 2010 • 2009

2013 (20)

15/05 - Lab vs. office
15/05 - On collaboration
14/05 - A complete story.
12/05 - Over the 25 hill.. on a reflective note
11/05 - Measuring the world
11/05 - A year to improve as a scientist
01/04 - Guest Blog Post: The lucky prospective’s dilemma: Every grad school is good! by Gigi Lin
18/03 - Reading Committee and some updates for 2013 so far.
16/03 - Of Kepler, Galileo and the Sky’s Dark Labyrinth
15/03 - TAing at Stanford. Done.
13/01 - A Mathematician’s Apology – Quotes
11/01 - Trick: Feedback as a Teaching Assistant (TA)
10/01 - Summer Intern vs. PhD attitude
08/01 - Trick: Making lecture pen casts
08/01 - Dhobi ka kutta.. Neither here, nor there.
06/01 - To come up.. go down.
05/01 - Why a PhD is tough
04/01 - Experienceometer. Measuring the greatest experiment of all.
03/01 - Dual Nature. Power of Two.
02/01 - New thoughts. New goal. New year. 2013

2012 (72)

31/12 - Goal updates 2012 – 100 mile bike race
31/12 - Goal updates 2012 – 21 Books read this year
31/12 - Goal updates 2012 – International conference presentation in Portugal
31/12 - Goal updates 2012 – Publishing paper
12/12 - Knowing nearly everything
25/11 - Thanksgiving 2012 road trip from Stanford to LA – summary and pictures
24/11 - Waiting for Godot
24/11 - The Indian Runner
22/11 - On why I blog.
21/11 - Of final papers, sleeping in hostels and writing.
20/11 - Thanksgiving break – impromptu roadtrip
08/11 - Trick: Saving my advisor some money
07/11 - Shoutout to Castles in the cloud
05/11 - Testing a new way of writing scientific reports
02/11 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Book Review
30/10 - Email etiquette I’ve learnt as a graduate student.
26/10 - VPGE Dinner with Chris Block
24/10 - Writing as a way of thinking
22/10 - Dinner with Stanford University Administrators at the Lake House
17/10 - True or False. Or Opinion.
05/10 - Getting a PhD is tough..
03/10 - Sharing scientific articles and supplementary videos on the web
02/10 - Cantor’s Dilemma
01/10 - What Nail to Nail
27/09 - A day before the 100 mile bike race. Levis GranFondo 2012
26/09 - Goal setting mistake
26/09 - Dear Blog.
05/08 - World trip begins
01/07 - Trick: Using iPhone on the microscope
01/07 - Biking from Stanford to San Francisco
01/07 - Teflon white tape experiment in alcohol
22/06 - The sensation of a new idea.
20/06 - A bit of a rough patch – overcoming brick walls.
29/05 - Who conceived the “complex viscosity”
22/05 - Trick: Taking great notes on the iPad
21/05 - Guest Blog Post: Future Novelist in College by Tonya Vrba
15/05 - A shoutout from Nanopolitan (updated)
11/05 - New Terman Park on Stanford University
08/05 - The Relay (2012) – A brief report
03/05 - Stanford at your finger-tips.
03/05 - Albert Einstein as a graduate student.
28/04 - Guest Blog Post: Living My Dream by Lakshmi Saligram (updated)
22/04 - For kids that attended “Achieve your Goals – Lessons from the Hunger Games” class at Splash 2012 at Stanford
22/04 - Guest Blog Post: My Plan is not to Plan by Surbhi Maheshwari
20/04 - Splash 2012 – Magical Fluids and Lessons from the Hunger Games
18/04 - Trick: Using the iPhone camera – to remember where you parked. And more.
14/04 - Trick: Winning as I sleep
13/04 - Taking advantage of the system.
11/04 - Guest Blog Post : The Secret to Acing Your Exams by Jim Wang
03/04 - One does not simply get bored at Stanford
31/03 - Whats the point of running, if it’s in the wrong direction?
28/03 - Guest Blog Post : From Peace to Piecewise Continuous by Atish Parekh
16/03 - GPS Art Running – A tribute to Sachin Tendulkar’s 100th ton at Stanford University
15/03 - Guest Blog Post : To Nerd or not to Nerd ? by Fadl Saadi
04/03 - Guest Blog Post: How Football Changed Me by Sahil Bhagat
26/02 - Guest Blog Post: Art and Lungs of a Runner by Rishi Bhatnagar
22/02 - JEH: A Life of J.R.D. Tata (Book review)
17/02 - A New and Different Sun. Everyday.
16/02 - Abba’s little boy
10/02 - Guest Blog Post: My Everest
09/02 - Prelude to the next guest blog post: A senior partner from McKinsey & Co.
06/02 - A paradise with rivers, gardens and hurs? No, thank you.
04/02 - Guest Blog Post: What do IIT professors talk about when they talk about running
31/01 - My new goals for 2012. Bring it !
31/01 - Ah. My h-index is now 1
30/01 - What I learned on visiting IIT Madras after a year at Stanford
29/01 - Running in Mumbai – Marine Drive (Nariman Point)
28/01 - Goal complete – Successfully read 12 books in 2011
28/01 - Jansport’s Warranty Delight !
28/01 - Quarter life crisis
23/01 - Rolling out a new me
02/01 - A generally useful guy to know

2011 (69)

11/12 - 100th blog post – Another goal accomplished
02/12 - Goal for the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon 2012 (SCMM)
30/11 - C’est la vie
25/11 - Trojan Horse.
25/11 - Tyger Tyger..
14/11 - Updates for the week
07/11 - Some new goals..
03/11 - Poetry In Any Language Is Beautiful – Wandrers Nachtlied II
29/10 - Race day tomorrow
24/10 - Blog hiatus again.
29/09 - Ways to get your motivation back
27/09 - Death.
22/09 - Post-quals at Stanford
17/09 - Dog-God conversations.
13/09 - A scientist’s Hell.
04/09 - Eyes wide open
01/09 - Relative Happiness
30/08 - Alpha Bitch
29/08 - Rambflections
22/08 - Blog hiatus – Will be back after Quals.
06/08 - Running in Boston
31/07 - Why do you run ?
23/07 - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Book review
23/07 - Three mistakes of my life
19/07 - De Vita Beata *
29/06 - Packard Summer Scamper 10k race report
25/06 - One-month vegetarian experiment report.
01/06 - fear.less
31/05 - El Corte de Madera Creek run.
30/05 - Ignited Again. (updated)
20/05 - Karma Kitchen (updated)
11/05 - Dog. Day. Every. Has. His.
08/05 - 194 miles. 36 cities. 21 hours. THE RELAY Race Report.
26/04 - Brown man goes surfing, runs and becomes vegetarian.
25/04 - My Secret to making the best personal decisions.
23/04 - A nice Splash! in Magical Fluids.
14/04 - Ideas to inspire students. Less talk. More action.
13/04 - Running the Stanford Dish Trail at night.
12/04 - Are I a sheep?
08/04 - New home.
29/03 - Michael Phelps – Pool Shark
28/03 - Second quarter at Stanford ends..
22/03 - Splash! at Stanford
19/03 - Dee.
10/03 - First impressions are always unreliable.*
06/03 - Glass half Fuller.
27/02 - Tour De Force – Lance ‘The Boss’ Armstrong
23/02 - Still pending. Keeping hoping.
21/02 - What you take away from the table..
20/02 - When someone replies back promptly..
15/02 - UC Irvine Race report
11/02 - Sacred privilege.
09/02 - Dodging elephants..
06/02 - Past forward.
04/02 - Look ma, no hands!
27/01 - ..of mental weightlifting and physical fitness.
24/01 - Leadership dinner with William Krause
23/01 - Loss of a loved one..
23/01 - Solitude. Not loneliness.
22/01 - Is it possible to do underwater math?
20/01 - A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
19/01 - Juggling time..
18/01 - Lake Tahoe – Snowshoeing
13/01 - Be yourself.. Everyone else is taken.*
12/01 - Life is on an incline; you either go up or you come down
11/01 - .. when you are the hammer, strike.
10/01 - Fail to plan = Plan to fail
09/01 - Couple of things of my checklist..
06/01 - I can have my cake and eat it too, damn it* !

2010 (24)

29/12 - When you’re jobless and you know it..
27/12 - Back to Stanford..
15/12 - Queens’ necklace.. At a loss of words.
13/12 - Lost in translation..
11/12 - First quarter at Stanford ends..
07/12 - Ah. Analogy ++
06/12 - From a well to a pond?
02/12 - Monte Carlo simulation of the 2-d Ising model..
30/11 - Blog break – end semester time. Bring it on..
27/11 - To be good or great ?
27/11 - Nihari..
27/11 - To desire or to deserve.
25/11 - 24/1000. 976 to go
24/11 - Texas, Austin. Meeting cousins after a decade.
24/11 - Thanksgiving break.. Full week off
24/11 - Never had 24 hours library access in India..
23/11 - Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years.
20/11 - Thanksgiving with the first-year ChemE’s..
19/11 - About the solar exam.. I’ve seen better. I’ve seen worse.
18/11 - Stupid solar cell course..
17/11 - Three Beautiful things (3BT)
29/10 - First publication..
14/07 - Correction. Not an atheist..
01/07 - Oh boy! I think i just became an atheist..

2009 (7)

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