Vivek’s Blog

I know what you’re thinking: how on earth does this guy get any time to post blog entries? Isn’t he studying engineering? Isn’t that a lot of work?

Sure, it’s fracking hard and it’s also a lot of fracking work. After a month at Columbia, things are the same: do homework, submit it, start again. The cycle of work continues endlessly. I had an exam and I got an 82 on it. That’s 2 points below the mean and two students actually got in the 90s. Better luck next time? You better hope so guy.

Now, coming to the baffling and utterly mysterious title of this post. Why the frack should you care about using a 24-hour format alarm clock? I’ll tell you why. Like right now. It’s coming up. Here it is. Don’t say I didn’t warn ya.

I had to wake up at 6:15am to get ready and board a bus to Philadelphia at 7:45am. It was for an international students’ trip to the wonderful city. Supposed to be a lot of fun. Well you know what, I set my 12-hour format alarm clock to 6:15pm because I didn’t notice the little PM next to the time. If I had switched the format on it to 24-hours, my alarm would have had to be for 0615 hours rather than 6:15am. The only way to screw up is if you can’t tell the difference between 0615 and 1815. Thankfully, I can tell the difference.

I was really annoyed for not checking the time and for not setting a secondary, back-up alarm. I always set two when I really need to wake up on time but this time I didn’t. My cellphone is on a 24-hour clock and so I wouldn’t have screwed up. Well, I missed the bus and there’s nothing I can do about it. I had even taken care of 75% of my homework by Friday evening so that a day of frolicking wouldn’t affect anything. ‘Twas in vain. DAMN IT!!!

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to get to a corner of my room and weep.