Railroad model club
Seeing them move flawlessly through the complicated network was the best part. On the lighter side, they provided sound effects in the engines too!
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| Penn State Railroad Club Exhibition (click to view album) |
If you ever get an opportunity to visit any railroad model exhibition, do not miss it! It’s worth all the time you give it, trust me. 
Shooting at Virginia Tech
Is it normal to feel so supremely devastated by something you are not (seemingly) related to? Well, I am. And I have been staring at the CNN website all day since I came to my office.
I am shocked and depressed by what has happened. Though I know no one among the ones who have lost their lives, I don’t know – I am just unable to work today. I feel sick to the stomach reflecting on what has happened.
Yesterday I was fine and so were many around me. So were the many students who were talking to reporters all day yesterday. Today there is a heavy gloom all across my campus and this silence is making the hum of air conditioning uncomfortably loud.
I guess it takes a while till reality and gravity of shock sink in.
I pray for all the lives lost – may their souls rest in peace.
“We are Virginia Tech” (link):
A rather moving speech given by Nikki Giovanni, English poet and Professor at VTech (3 min, Courtesy: CNN)
We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not moving on. We are embracing our mourning. We are Virginia Tech …
