Gaurav Ragtah
Follow messageI'm Gaurav from New Delhi, India. I'm a freshman at Colgate University and I plan on majoring in computer science and mathematics. Also, I'm on the men's club soccer team (soccer is my favorite sport!) and I love playing table-tennis too.
My Twitter username is spideyunlimited, and you can find me on Facebook by searching my name.
Extracurricular
- performing on the Tabla
- Writing Poetry
- Theatre
- soccer
- synthesizer
- tabletennis
- vocal singing
- Chess
- playing the keytar
- Music Theory
- Student Council Class Representative
- Solving '15 - puzzles', jigsaw puzzles and crosswords
- Expert in solving puzzles and riddles.
- Volunteer at school
- Teacher's Aide - Helping junior school teachers with classroom work.
- Midfielder for local soccer team
- I'm a midfielder in West End FC !
- Played the Tabla in various auditoriums.
- Gave solo and/or duet performances (playing the tabla) at well known auditoriums in the city .
- Student Council Class Representative
Experience
- Website Moderator
- GoIIT (Vriti Infocom)
- 2006 to
- Tech Diagnostician
- SOURCe
- 2009 to
Education
- High School
- Springdales School
- College
- Colgate University
- to Now
Honors & Awards
* National Science Talent Exam - national top 750
* National Cyber Olympiad - Merit list (top 2500)
* Theory of Music Exam (Distinction -Grade 1 & 2) - Trinity College, Londo
Specialties & Skills
-Can adeptly play the Tabla, Synthesizer, Harmonica, Harmonium, Congo and Dholak.
Info
Basic
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Last Update:
April 2, 2011
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Birthday:
September 4
Background
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Hometown:
India
Interests
- Engineering
Favorites
- Movies:
Spiderman, Ocean's Eleven, Bourne Identity, Mission Impossible, Renaissance Man, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, The Pursuit of Happyness, Good Morning Vietnam, Blades of Glory, The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, Mindhunters, Blood Diamond, Reign Over
- TV Shows:
Big Bang Theory, Doctor Who, DON - Detective Omkar Nath, Special Squad, Mano Ya Na Mano, CID, Sarabhai vs Sarabhai, Man vs Wild, Unsolved Mysteries, The Week That Wasn't, Detective Conan, Best of Detective Stories
- Music:
Broken Wings - Alter Bridge, Colorblind - Darius, Jerk It Out - The Caesars, Change The World - Eric Clapton, Beautiful Day - U2, You Can't Take Me Down - Bryan Adams, Insania - Peter Andre, In Loving Memory - Alter Bridge, Bad Day - Daniel Powter, Gift -
- Websites:
Wikipedia, GoIIT.com, Facebook
- Quotes:
"As the circle of light grows, so does the circumference of darkness around it." - Albert Einstein
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." -Albert Einstein
"Failure? I've never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks." - Books:
Surely You're Joking, Mr.Feynman - Ralph Leighton, A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking, Artemis Fowl, Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie's novels, Adventures of Feluda - Satyajit Ray, A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth, Wings of Fire: An Autobiography of AP



