GATE and post GATE experience

GATE is what the name itself says- Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, the questions in GATE exam are not that tough at all.To solve them you just need a good aptitude & the basic knowledge of the engineering subjects.The questions are a bit tricky, few of them are very simple few are tough but most of them are simple but it requires a tricky approach to solve them.
For GATE aspirants,i suggest you to prepare for it in a smarter way.Don't just waste all the time in understanding the topics, just clear the fundamentals of subject and go through the related questions. It's the practice of questions which makes a difference in preparation.Spend 25% of time in understanding the basics and rest 75% in practicing the questions.Do practice previous years questions as much as you can and as much are available.There is no no advantage of reading the topics if you can't solve the questions from that topic.Practicing the questions increases the understanding of the concepts and this will help you when you write GATE paper.
Moreover, GATE has a vast syllabus including almost all major subjects in B.Tech but the gate papers are more oriented towards few subjects and the specific topics in those subjects.One can easily pick those sections by analyzing previous years' question papers. Try to practice these sections more.

Modes of admission:
Direct admission.

Admission through written test and/or interview.

3-4 months of study is sufficient to crack GATE and come in the race of securing the seats in MS and M.tech @ IITs through interview procedure.But if you want's to be on safer side, start preparation earlier and try to secure Direct admission in IITs. Interviews in mostly IITs are schedule in the month of May.Few of them clashes with each other, and if you are a fourth year student, it will surely clash with either your semester examinations or external practical exams.

My Playlist

Bruno mars-Just the way you are

Key to Live a Happy Life

I use these

>Forgive quickly

>Stay satisfied with whatever you got

>Why hurry? Go slowly, enjoy each step of your life.
>The thing of beauty is a joy forever.

How to forgive quickly?
This depends more on how frequently you practice it, if you got hurt by a person never think of a revenge, if such kind of feelings got arise in you then you can never forgive him. Other thing is to just think "who the hell are you?". You are just an ordinary person and can be hurt by others, it's not a big deal and you can easily forget about it.

Way to Stay satisfied with whatever you got:

How to develop this satisfaction? I remember, while i was in school, there was a message on decision making by mahatama gandhi, printed in the few initial pages in NCERT books. It is called Gandhi's Talisman:

"I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away."

This message itself is very useful when we are in doubt, but I have modified it to make it useful in stay satisfied. Might be cause of your decision in the past, you have lost something or you didn't get enough as much you work hard to get it. But you should think that you are still in better place. While comparing yourself with the men/woman described above in the message will give a satisfaction on whatever you got but never let this feeling to rise so high that it will press down your ambitions and generate negativity towards attaining your goal. Always be satisfied whatever you got and on the same hand also try to achieve more, this is what we call life.

Enjoy the life:

No one knows how long is your life, always make decisions of your own. Never fell low for the time wasted by taking a wrong decision but feel proud for living in the way you want.Your decisions can boost your career or you may ended up with nothing but the matter is you are living your life at the fullest without any pressure. A time of 2-3 years don't contribute much when it's a matter of whole life.
So, remember to add life to days not days to life.

Finally,The thing of beauty is a joy forever:

One can be happy by it's own.always enjoys your surroundings, nature, environment, etc. Try to extract happiness from the things and people all around. You can spread happiness in your surroundings:
>Live and Let others live.

>Always be happy to help.
These simple thoughts can add beauty to your life.

Facing Problem in the life:

Ignoring the problem:

This is also a way to face the problem, few people are expert in it. They might be don't care about the problem or just try to keep away from it. But what i think is the more you back with the problem, the more longer they exists.

Face them & Solve them:

Problems can never be solved itself, we have to solve them by putting some efforts.

Problems are of two kinds, one are those for which we can put efforts from our side, these can be handled easily and the other are those which we can't solve from our side, these problems are mainly related to emotions and feelings. And the ball is in other person's court, and we should know that he can play it very well. So, be prepare from you side, be strong and don't let emotions and feelings to conquer on your mind.
The situations in which you can't do anything, there is still a way in which you can do something not to solve the problem but to prepare yourself in order to face it, to collect the strength for it. I have already discussed a approach in my earlier post: Life is in the music.

What is Love, a technical approach to find the answer:

Technically i can define love as a real time degree of measuring priority of an individual or a thing in your life.The thing or person you love the most, always have have highest priority in your life.

This is not the complete definition of Love. As we all know Love can also be defined spiritually and in other ways. In-fact, Love can not be completely defined by single of them, it is a broad concept as the domain of love is boundless and so does it's range.

Comparing love with a problem of set, just remember there always exist a null and hopefully a power-set too. Although, their probability of occurrence might be low but they do exist so be aware of the first one of them.

Now this concept of prioritizing on the scale of love helps a lot in solving a lot of questions(mainly decision making situations).You can resolve things using this priority alone.

Magic Lyrics by Linkin Park

New Divide:

"Let the floods cross the distance in your eyes"

Burning in the skies:

"I'm losing what I don't deserve"

Waiting for the End:

"Picking up those pieces now where to begin

The hardest part of ending is starting again"

Numb:

"Every step that I take is another mistake to you"

Iridescent:

"Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?

You build up hope, but failures all you've known.

Remember all the sadness and frustration

And let it go,Let it go."

Robot Boy:

"You say the weight of the world

Has kept you from letting go

..........

But someday the weight of the world

Will give you strength to go"

The Catalyst:

"we're a broken people living under loaded gun"

Shadow Of The Day:

"Sometimes beginnings aren't so simple

Sometimes goodbye's the only way"

Blackbirds:

"With blackbirds following me

I'm digging out my grave

They close in swallowing me

The pain it comes in waves

I'm getting back what I gave"

Crawling:

"Crawling in my skin

These wounds they will not heal"

Somewhere i belong:

"i wanna heal i wanna feel what i thought was never real

i wanna let go of the pain i have felt so long."

Easier to run:

"It’s easier to run

Replacing this pain with something more

It’s so much easier to go

Than face all this pain here all alone"

From the inside:

"Tension is building inside"

Breaking the habbit:

"I dont want to be the one,Who battles always choose

Cuz inside I realize, That I'm the one confused."

Plain White T's Lyrics

Plain White T's --a small name in the world of pop music bands. But their work is truly remarkable. I remember when i listen first song of PWT, it was "Hey there Delilah" from the album "all that we needed" released in 2005. The music in the song is so soft and the lyrics is so dedicated that i can't stop myself from listening the song again and again, it got stuck on my mind for days.Then i listen "A lonely September", after listening to that, i can't hold it more and just gone through all of their work.
It was PWT who teach me what does a song mean and how deeply we can interpret the meaning of the song's lyrics. No one can express it in words.Here are parts of few lyrics by PWT:

Hey there delilah:

"Hey there Delilah
I've got so much left to say
If every simple song I wrote to you
Would take your breath away
I'd write it all
Even more in love with me you'd fall
We'd have it all
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me"

After listening to this song, i was so curious about to know about Delilah, who is she?
after investigating on sites and listen to some podcasts, finally i came to know that she is a friend of a friend of Tom(writer of this song).Tom met her in Chicago she was a student in New York, both of them were there for a party stuff or holiday.On her first meet TOM said to her that he will write a song for her. He was in Villa Park,Illinois, due to this distance gap and busy schedule of TOM he was not able to write the song.But she constantly ask him through the e-mails, for the song whether he has written it or not? Then one day, TOM started to work on the song and finally ended up with one of their best song.

A Lonely September:

"I'm sittin' here all by myself
just tryin' to think of something to do
Tryin' to think of something, anything
just to keep me from thinking of you
But you know it's not working out
'cause you're all that's on my mind
One thought of you is all it takes
to leave the rest of the world behind

..........
I'm sittin' here tryin' to convince myself
that you're not the one for me
But the more I think, the less I believe it
and the more I want you here with me"

Irrational Anthem:

"I remember wishing I was older

always something big around the corner

but as the years go by I'm growing younger

open eye and head still filled with wonder
.........

There's nothing worse than normal
there's no fun in one day
as everyone else gets older
I refuse to change
weak or strong, right or wrong
whose side are you on?"

This song have a simple feel of getting younger and realize that childhood was any day better.But they express it so nicely, in childhood everyone wish to be grow old quickly and when it really happens we got out of our dream and then see the real world in front of our eyes, then only we realize how wrong were we in the childhood.Best part of this song is the last line, here, they have compared childhood to weak but right and young to strong but wrong.


Wonders of the younger:

"Race cars and spaceships and carnival rides
Ghosts in graveyards that come out at night

..........

Werewolves and vampires are out for the kill
If none of them catch you, the Bogeyman will
These are the wonders of the younger

And I wonder why we just leave it all behind
And I wonder how we can all go back right now

.........

Numbers and figures take up all my time
How did this much of my life pass me by?
I miss the wonders of the younger"