Hello. A Mumbai-flagged bulk carrier in Seattle. That goes into my ship-spotting diary. #represent #goIITMumbai
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I'm curious: do you remember how you placed on the IIT entrance exam? Is your score still a point of pride? Is this a rude question?
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No, it's not a number you forget and it's fine to ask 😂... 638. I call it my humanity rank in 1993
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I have a colleague at MIT who's too embarrassed to say anything except he scored in the lower half of the top 2000.
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(His PhD advisor famous scored #2.)
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It's embarrassing if you're unironic about it at any rank. Or if you're sub-100 and did nothing better after like winning major prizes etc
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Personally I strive to take all accomplishments ironically.
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Where are you in the physics world on the Howard Wolowitz to Sheldon Cooper scale, Cooper being 100?
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