Amith Narayan, PhD

Happy New Year! In 2024, join me as I explore new horizons: my side hustle aiding job seekers, making strides in plasma RF Systems research, and personal growth in music and health. Let's embrace this year of learning and achievement together. Read on!

Having pursued several disconnected career choices, I always wondered if I could amount to anything worthwhile. While unsure how to make the appropriate career choice, I share three stories that tell you whichever path you choose; you can succeed if you are willing to keep trying.

Being a Teaching Assistant (TA) is inevitable for most Ph.D. students during graduate school. Being an effective TA is vital to navigating grad school successfully and pursuing a career in academia. I was a TA for the most challenging courses in Electrical Engineering and won the Best TA award.

If you google 'How to buy a House?', you will find a hundred step-by-step guides at your disposal. Yet, almost all of them only prepared me partially for my home-buying experience. I have elucidated the process with my personal experience. They can offer practical suggestions to new homebuyers.

Our baby was 39 cm tall at birth and weighed 1.25 kg. On the growth chart published by WHO, he was well below the 3rd percentile. A year later, he is 77.5 cm tall and weighs 10.7 kg. On the growth chart, he is at the 53rd percentile in height and the 74th percentile in weight.

If there is one lesson I wish everybody takes home from this post, it would be to build an emergency fund. Every morning, I see several calls for help on LinkedIn and Facebook.

ನನ್ನ ಇನ್ನು ಹುಟ್ಟದ ಮಗುವಿಗೆ ಬರೆದಿರುವ ಹನಿಗವನ: ನನ್ನ ಮುದ್ದು ಕುಂಡೆ, ನಿನ್ನ ಅಂಡು ರವೆ ಉಂಡೆ, ತಿಂದು ನಾನು ಆನಂದವ ಕಂಡೆ.

I am 5 feet 11 inches tall and weigh 242 pounds. The CDC classifies me as obese. I never found the determination to do a workout despite it. But, the first time I watched The Last Dance, I ran 140 miles (225 km) in 15 days.

In the summer of 2014, I arrived at the Baltimore Washington International Airport (BWI) to pursue my PhD at the University of Maryland, College Park. The funny thing about the BWI airport is that there is nothing international about it.