Law of Doctoring
It never heals correctly.

Once-in-a-while

Every once-in-a-while, me and my room-mates get time to sit around, and that once-in-a-while, everybody feels bored, with no movies to watch, nothing to read, nothing to eat, nothing to cook, and basically nothing to do.

It was in one of these once-in-a-while's that we decided that we would all tell something about what we are good at, academically. To be more precise, what research work we engage in and all that.
That is actually pretty interesting because of the diverse fields we are in. For example, I specialize in VLSI, my first roomie in Wireless Communications, the second in Systems (with a Computer Science angle) and the third in Cryptography. Easily said that the latter two are Computer Science majors, both with a couple of good research papers under their arms.

Myself, in VLSI, started telling about the basics of digital circuits which none of them were aware of before. The first roomie in Basic Communication principles, which, even though I had learnt, they had all gone over my head. The second guy on Computer Architecture and the third on Advanced Encryption techniques that are still being researched.

But that once-in-a-whiles have been quite a long time ago.
A very long time ago.

Time has changed. Things have changed.
Now with 4 laptops in our house (I dont have one, the "first roomie" has two), an extremely fast broadband connexion, enough DVD's to fill all free time, and tons of books that we would never be able to finish reading even in 5 years, and finally everybody's lack of time, especially mine, have forced all that once-in-a-whiles to disappear.

I miss them, though.