HelloWorld : Things in my head

Hello World

 For the people who are too lazy to open my bio or if I havent updated it yet ;), I am Smit Mehta, a CS undergrad at IIT Madras, India. Besides many things, I really love typing. Yes, you read it correct. You can always invite me for a race in typeracer. Just ping me with the link to the race. Apart from sharing my views on stuff, blogging is just an another excuse to type more. My blogs can tend to have a bias towards IITs, IITians, Gujarati stuff and Computer Science.

 I have been wanting to write a blog from last three months, but there is always a bunch of pending assignments (excuses?). Hence today, I swear an oath in the name of the Old Gods and the New that I will write a blog post every Monday, well except when my quizzes / endsems / very big assignment submission / some other excuse isn't there. Well it is already Tuesday now, but I can forgive myself for the first post.

 This is the helloworld post for the coming series of blogposts of my Things in my head. Well generally people don't have an introductory post like this, and they just start writing stuff, but i don't have the enthu to write anything today. I will be posting stuff on every Monday from now on. You are welcome to comment / argue / discuss.
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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