Chirag, Day 3

Day 3; it was raining. Viveka had a slight cold from working in the rain yesterday and I told her not to go out today or it would get worse. Of course, she didn’t listen, and came back with a much worse cold. I decided not to go today, partly because Keith had said we weren’t working today, partly because of the rain, and partly because of multilinked structures (chapter 2.4 of volume 1 of The Art of Computer Programming). Reading through Knuth’s work, I realise that I really do enjoy computer science, but that it is a lot more complicated than I had previously thought. While Viveka was out working, Josh, Aoi, Kate and Esther came back from their village and we talked a bit. They eventually went off to Rita as well, and I stayed behind. I sat in bed, read my book and played with my yo-yo for several hours, and it rained all day. Finally everyone came back from Rita. They had done no work because of the rain. I expected this, which is why I chose to stay behind (of course…). Ben experimented with plastic bottles, pens, foil and other such materials, whilst we watched expectantly. When he had finished, everyone went outside except for Aoi and me. We stayed back and talked about maths (we’re so cool!) and to Shrish. Shrish went to IIT, where he did Mining Engineering. They have a 52 terabyte database of music, books, movies and the like. Wow. I played some two-player cheat with Aoi which involved removing half the deck, which entertained us until everyone got back. It was fairly dull.