Between the tough placement season going on in IIT and all my dear friends busy with that , I flung to a far part of India, Guwahati to attend a conference meant for the students and by the students. More than just an academic trip, it was much more than that. A chance to interact with different people yet so similar in many respects (afterall all iitians are) and also some senior grads from Germany. The first part was the lecture we were supposed to deliver, mine dealt with blood flow simulation on a cell processor designed by IBM. So it was all interdisciplinary and a very new thing for me and above all beyond my routine acads. The most amazing aspect of this technology that in order to speed up simulations , special cell processor have been derived from playstations employed by youngsters to speed up gaming power( and they have eventually turned out to be more powerful than supercomputers of this age). Hence it was all very interesting and I cracked the lecture. Then comes Guwahati and particularly Assam, a very different state from where I live that is the far eastern part of India. The culture, its ethnicity is all very different and we witnessed all that when we went around visiting two temples. The place that is IIT Guwahati is undoubtedly the most beautiful of all iits. The place has every inch of what is called the scenic beauty. The academy also arranged cruise trips for us which was another thrill to step out from conference rooms and detailed technical discussions. The experience provided us everything from learning ( yeah I mean it :D) to a holiday. Such kind of conference is the first of it’s kind where students that is young undergrads deliver lectures and profs listen. The people i.e. mainly the co-iitians of host iit were amazing( hats off the hospitality we received). Above all went good and ended good.