Confession!
Iranian celebrate the Yalda, the longest night of the year, by getting together, reading poems and symbolically try do fun things. This year, one of the bloggers has suggested a game: everyone confess to 5 things which even his/her close friends don’t know them. So here is mine:
1. When I was in high school, grade 11, I stopped taking exams! So I had to study 8 courses in the following summer and get ready for the admission exam of university (In Iran due to very high demand for higher education there is a national exam and top ranked students can choose which university and field they want to register. At the time that I took the exam, almost one million students participated and 10% could get it in). Anyway, I got admission for the best technology university in the country as mechanical engineer student, but I never participated in classes, then I changed my fields to Applied Mathematics in Computer, an changed it again to Pure Mathematics, after getting my B.Sc. I started MBA in back-home, in University of Toronto I started Information Studies but didn’t find the school and field enough challenging, and switched to Philosophy of Science and Technology. This one was challenging, but due to full time work I had I didn’t have time to study enough so I got back to MBA as it really doesn’t need that much study! So battle still continues but I am dedicated to get my Ph.D. degree…
2. I hate cooked parcel! In Iran they mixed it with rice and I hate the smell an taste!
3. Once I hit a car in a parking lot and made a little bit damage on it. I escaped the scene! and I don’t tell you it was in Iran or Canada!
4. Sometimes I think I should consider a limit in useing my skill in convincing people in doing things!
5. I don’t like conservatives, but there is one guy who is conservative and I worked with him for eight years in Iran. He (Professor Javad Larijani) supported the Internet project in Iran and without his vision and support it was impossible to do it. He is the only conservative that I’d work with him again I find the opportunity.