I obtained my bachelors degree in IT back at home in 2007. 14 years later, thousands of miles away, I am here now, pursuing my Masters. Apart from studies, I am a mom of two boys and working full-time as a database administrator in a banking company. I love reading and hoarding books. The smell of new and old books gives me an elated joyfulness. Currently, I am reading “The Kite Runner<\/a>” by Khaled Hosseini, which had been in my to-read list for long. As you could understand from the title of this post, I love children’s books and reading to kids. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Digital media course interests me because I believe it would tickle my creativity nerve. Audio and video editing sound exciting and I would like to learn the nuances behind it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As much as I love United States as an immigrant, I also value my home and will never forget my roots. This makes me to celebrate all the American and Indian festivals. Last weekend, we celebrated a very important Indian harvest festival, Pongal<\/a>, which you can refer as “Indian Thanksgiving”, where we offer thanks to Sun, farmers and farming animals. Below is the picture of the prayers (poojai<\/a>), we did at our home \ud83d\ude42 You can few Hindu deities, Indian vegetables, sugarcane, lamp, sugarcane and a home-made sweet dish in the pot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How else you can expect a Dr.Seuss’s fan to have a title for her self-introduction? Hi Everyone, I am Saranya living in Tampa, Florida. I am in my second year of MSIT program. I am basically from Tamil Nadu, India,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,2],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2023","category-student","tag-intros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2193,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions\/2193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pongal.jpeg\")
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