Do you tweet? If yes, good. Skip the first paragraph. Read the rest. If you don’t tweet, very good. Read everything.

It’s all about twitter. The microblogging service, that has become a part and parcel of  everyone’s life. And many a thanks to latest technology, you can tweet from your mobile phone. Twitter asks you to answer this question. “What are you doing?”. And it expects you to answer in less than 141 words. You might think why it became hip among the online community. It’s all because it became a new novel way to find and share web content and connect with friends. This video should make things clearer. (Or you can read one of my older posts.)

So you do tweet. Well, let me ask. What do you tweet? I know people who because have unlimited internet access, who are lazy to leave their computer desktop and who can tweet from their mobiles because they can. They tweet from the point they wake to till they fall into slumber.

Something like a live commentary probably. So if you think you fall in that category, a piece of advice. Please don’t tweet every minute and second of your life. Tweet reasonably. If you don’t then mind your trouble is around the corner.

What trouble? Don’t follow if you don’t like!

I like to follow my friends, and it isn’t their live commentary about their own life that bothers me. The thing that bothers is that, your everyday tweets are enough to reconstruct your life. So what? You become predictable. You may think it’s cool. But people are crossing the line and into your privacy.

You might argue. “No, I am careful, not to tweet everything”. Unfortunately, tweeting is addictive like texting. It happens automatically. Look at your tweets and think how useful it will be to a stranger.

Well friends. It’s time to think twice before you tweet.

P.S. As an example. There was news that a tweeter’s house was robbed when he and his family were out on a holiday. Here is the link to the article published at Mashable.

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June-July is the time when a horde of students decide upon what course to consider for college education. I am currently pursuing my B.Tech in Chemical Engineering. Lately I have been receiving several queries regarding colleges and the courses that can be considered. It seems that not many are interested in Chemical Engineering. I remember how I ‘chose’ this course. I actually didn’t choose Chemical Engineering, I got it.

Since it is my course and now am happy that I got this, I thought it would be best to write down about this course, what it is, what you learn in it and the job prospects.

First thing to understand is that there is a difference between Chemical Engineering and Chemistry. And Chemical Engineering is NOT purely Chemistry. It is a good mixture of Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics. Concepts of Physics includes Fluid Mechanics, Mass and Heat Transfer. There is also usage of Computers and Computer Programming.

I have completed now 2 semesters of Chemical Engineering, and my opinion is that it isn’t strenuous and most of the concepts are easy to study and understand. There is always a Practical connection. Chemical Engineering is not entirely science. It is a based on science and experience.

Let me answer one important question. Why are chemical engineers needed? Chemical engineers design, construct and operate plants and industrial process. They are mainly involved in the either converting raw materials or seperating raw materials to obtain useful products.

It is a good course with very good opportunities for Higher education abroad and also has very good job offers, thanks to the Petroleum industries, ever rising demand for petroleum fuels, pharmaceutical industries, the every day battle against pathogens, chemical manufacture industries, narcotics testing in customs etc.

At the moment I do not have enough data to explain to you and prove the demand for Chemical Engineers in today’s world. I will update this post with campus recruitment data form the National Institute of Technology Trichy for Chemical Engineering as soon as possible.

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Ice cream is one thing among the few words that first come to your mind, when you talk about Summer. As I was relishing my cone ice cream today, the story of how it came into existence came to my mind. I don’t remember where or from whom I had heard it, but it was about a nice innovation.

A story of how a casual comment was taken serious and converted into an innovative product.

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The story is set somewhere in America. At the time, Ice-creams were a craze. But the problem faced the large amount of plastic cups that were dumped resulting in various environmental problems.

To deal with how to manage these cups the people of a town, came together and discussed. They thought about all possible things, from collecting the cups, recycling it to fining people who do not put the cups in dustbins. They also thought about replacing the plastic cups with paper, but the problem was “if the ice-cream melts, then it’s going to wet the cup and freezing it in a fridge would be useless”.

Then from somewhere came this comment, “Well, if the plastic cups are indeed a problem, then eat them up!”. This might look like a mocking comment, but the people of the town, took it in a positive sense and came up with something that solved their problem. They made eatable cups, which would carry a scoop of ice cream. Thus was born the “Cone Ice-Cream”, where nothing harmful to the environment (plastics) is produced as waste.

On the path to success and glory you will be showered with appreciation and good wills. But there shall also be ill-comments and critisism. Be positive, get inspired by them and innovative. Today’s world is creative, but isn’t as creative as it should have been. Learn more about yourself from every comment made about you. There are enough people out there to find mistakes in you. Don’t shoo them away, because, they help you attain perfection.

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