Monthly Archives: January 2012

Eventful

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Ventured into writing for money, and that has mixed results for me to fully ignore writing anymore for money sake. Perhaps, like in one case, money should come inviting me to write. 

Satan Secretary has given a brief glimpse that she might be on a different route, but inadvertently she keeps coming back to her bad habits–a mark of satan. Again, I think ignorance would be my answer for one more semester.

Job has been exciting. Changes were made to my role, of which some I desired and some I dreaded. Part of the new role was getting jobs for students. I recently figured out that professionalism needs no neighbor, for someone showed me that jobs can be bought in deals for drools. It makes worthwhile presenting business in a suit and just case.

What I thought was an opportunity seems to catch up with the frog in the brew. I once tasted mediocrity, and I think I should add a little spine to change the taste of the brew that is getting ready in the next few months. I guess language that is shallow yet sweet is a reasonable solution. Why won’t you support this?

Can’t accurately figure out the reason why, but technological independence makes me feel having more time to critique. If it is good, I began critiquing myself. If it is bad, give me lucrative jobs.

Like every January that brings a new year, it brings to me destabilizing news, either happy or not. This January, I lost my lappy, bought a kindle fire; lost a relative, my friend is getting married; bought jobs for my students, struck a deal with a start up firm; wrote for money and gained, wanted more of it and lost. All in all, the month was eventful.

Lot in store for the next month, and there are targets I am chasing.

On Financial Education

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I invested in the share market.

It is a kind of courageous statement for someone who had a painful answer to a rather curious question: how can I be rich? The lessons from my stock market investments have been too costly for me to venture getting the complete answer. But over time, I have learnt that investing is not necessarily the best way to learn the trade. There are other sources too! And frankly, in the kind of financial complexity that we live in, I think one needs to be aware of various investment opportunities and how they might fare well before putting in their money. Thanks to the recent developments I went through; my boss, the head of the department has recently been trained by SEBI, India to deliver such awareness sessions, and he had done one of his first few sessions in our college itself. I would not call it a complete guide to financial investing, however, it at least sets up a platform from where I can plan further.

Recalling, there were times I said, I will never again invest in stock market. Perhaps it is time for me to revisit that line and see if it is worth sticking in my head. At the moment, I just wish as I am about to experiment again, that the financial systems offered to its consumers, a way out of complexity through straight talk.

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Here is one website I have recently stumbled on, Loans.net. On the face of it, it was hard for me to identify what this was all about. But soon figured out that this was one system that integrates financial instruments for various organisations and offers the one that best fits the customers’ need. It also has lots of content that talks about different kinds of loans. Perhaps, this is one kind of place where I want to begin–draw money, and then invest. ;)

Semester Moments Assorted

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Phew! As I solve the eleventh hour queries of students troubled with what is gobbled up through the course of a semester, I found few challenging ones that observed my attention. Curse or thank the mediocrity of those instant guides that are popularly used every examination season; I have learnt a point or two more within my subject, not because they had better lessons, but they had problems confounded in such manner that they forced me to explore more. So, here we go with the three questions:

Question One: Why do we select the point of intersection that is closest to the horizontal axis when we solve games using graphical method?

Question Two: In a transportation problem, why do we form a circuit when we want to identify how much the allocation should be modified and where?

Question Three: If we talk of Six sigma, is it really about accommodating six standard deviations in the process or should it be about reducing the absolute standard deviation?

Goodness me, there is some talent out there.

That is not all I had this semester. There were a couple of embarrassing moments that is attributed to the efforts to try and over teach (not so desirable) and to the efforts of trying to explain the fundamentals more than required (no so needed, I find now). The first moment, I missed computing the standard deviation and got the problem wrong, and it took me a second after stepping out of the class to identify what mistake I committed. But the twenty minutes I struggled in the class remains an experience. On the second moment, I explained game theory very convincingly through out only spoiling one last procedure. I had forgotten substituting calculated values in the original equations to find out the whole range of values required.

If you think these were silly, I am assuming (actually I shouldn’t hope) the students caught more than what I had known myself committing in lectures.

If I were to mention one significant learning from this semester of teaching, I would say it, but it would not be ground-breaking. I figured out that supplying material to students prior to the class is as effective as supplying no material. The later can at least save me some time and energy.

What would I be doing next semester? I am eagerly planning things.

Monetizing Trials

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New year begins and the first post in new year comes out. And for the first time, I am considering monetizing my blog. As a part of figuring out how this business works, I recently created an account on LinkfromBlog (buy blog links), who claim that they are an interface between bloggers and advertisers. This post now has two purposes. One to inform my readers that I have tried this, and two, to fulfill the registration need on their platform. Whichever need is primary is a different thought as of now, but the first payment if it comes will give me a chance to blend my appetite for writing with need for making money.

Wish me good luck.
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