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This is the first time in my life that I'm rooting for Australia to beat India in a test match! ๐Ÿ˜ณ
#INDvAUS
That's not anti India. Anti BCCI. Because of the lurid spectacle they did, making it all about him.

Also I genuinely think 2-2 would be a fair result for this series. We've bashed Australia in 3 straight series. I wanna see the old Aussie fightback.

I started off thinking 4-0 to India, but the Aussie spinners of this generation have shown the grit and guile that none of the previous Aussie teams showed. Especially Lyon. Hugely fanboying at his growth as a bowler in the last few years. Him winning this test too would be nice.
My only partisan bucket list item in cricket was India winning a test series in Australia. They did it twice in 2 years!

Since then, I'm more about the game and the players and the history and the narrative rather than just blindly supporting India.

2-2 would be awesome!
Also I want to see a Smith special. It's been too long. ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ
Ashwin-Jadeja have kept Smith quiet against India for like 2 series straight. I don't think we fully appreciate the enormity of that achievement.

Have y'all seen Smith against other teams? Guy could bat on water! #INDvAUS
Yeah, I would like to see that one day. Came so close in 2014.

But that's not as big of a bucket list item for me personally since South Africa started actively getting rid of apartheid in their cricket.

Australia and England are different level for me.

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Mar 9
This! Somehow we have made undergrad education in India even worse and cutthroat and utilitarian and grade chasing and job chasing than ever.

And we have a lot of public thought leaders randomly crapping on college education as a concept, citing Zuck and Jobs and Thiel etc.
Around the world, undergrad college education in this century has evolved towards a more Inclusive broad based learning oriented approach. For example, many top universities have made GRE, GMAT, and recently even SAT optional.

India has gotten even more JEErankish.
Yes! "Brand dilution" it seems.

America has like 100 massive high quality research universities with huge number of engineering and MBA seats. Population 33 crore.

But more than 6 IIT/IIMs in 140 crore India is brand dilution.

It's gatekeeping!

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Mar 9
Just one more class today. And after that,
This last class before spring break is my "Oscars Pre-Game". 10% of the grades in this class are for a group presentation on Oscar Advertising & Marketing.

Yes, there will be a marketing lecture excerpt ๐Ÿงต after. ๐Ÿ˜

Some pics of things I'm going to talk about in class today. ImageImageImageImage
The central message of this class and this assignment -

The #Oscars are not, repeat loudly, NOT about recognizing excellence in film. They just are not.

They are an industry trade show based on an industry straw poll and are about selling more films. Preferably Disney.
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Mar 9
What's your ranking of the big 4 in terms of how much you enjoy watching them bat?

For me it's

1. Root
2. Smith
3. Kohli
4. Williamson

And that's very close margins. I couldn't explain why Kane is 4th for me.
Root is straight up there with Viv and 20th century Sachin in my books as a ๐Ÿ
Joe Root bats like an Artificial Intelligence would bat in an EA Sports game after Learning from all previous batters.

Steve Smith bats like someone with cheat codes from EA Sports.
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Mar 9
Dropping friend's 11 to school

"I'll see you at 2:45? No, 330! Cos detention! ๐Ÿ˜"

"Why are you smiling at my detention? ๐Ÿ˜ก"

" ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ Cos since Archie comics and breakfast club days, I've been fascinated by this concept but never actually known anyone getting it."

"You're weird"
I always found it so hilariously fascinating and foreign and first world that in America, "punishment" equals just sitting in a room for an extra 30-60 minutes staring at the wall.
She got detention for being late last week. Given that I spent a huge chunk of my first 22 years waiting for her dad to get ready in time for school or college, I'm gonna blame it on him.
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Mar 9
O mhaaraaz main German bol riya Hoon ๐Ÿคญ

Goggle tey mufflore

Ball maango bhaiyya haath jara jodke

Ayyy baat ko samjhaane toh de!

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Goodbye, Satish Kaushik. You'll always be my Calendar.
One of the most underrated & forgotten bits was #SatishKaushik & Pankaj Kapoor playing Titu tey Tony, two brothers up to silly hijinx. In Phillips Top Ten.

Anyone remember that? Who has those videos from the 90s?

Could you ask your dad please @shahidkapoor?
Also remembering #SatishKaushik and Naseer in this classic scene that always has me rolling

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I came with these exact same preconceptions and teaching my first class back in 2007 showed me how wrong I was.

The average college student in the US is way smarter and more worldly wise and well rounded than we realize. And has a good work ethic too.
I have tweeted about this before. How we in India think we have the highest levels of academic competition cos our cutoffs are so brutal and our admissions so dauntingly selective.

My unpopular opinion is that NY/NJ kids face way tougher more intense competition than India.
Everyone who went to Harvard wants to send their kids to Harvard.

Everyone with any discretionary income to spend on their child also, if possible, would like to send their kids to Harvard.

Immigrants pouring in also want to send their kids to Harvard.

But supply is limited.
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