The beginning of Machine learning in my Life

It was just a usual day i was googling around after the heart break of getting rejected by Amazon and Directi. One and a half years of reading algorithms didn't pay me well. I landed a job in Informatica. It's been a month I left the books..well almost but something was still pinching me. It was a failure that I was not really able to digest. It would have been a immense comfort to me if I could accept it but No-that's not me.
Life has been a continous unending struggle. I was destined for something. I was searching for wat's so geeky about those PHDs work in google or reasearch companies. You know a human loves everything has he doesn't own. I was always a silent admirer to those fuckingly good algorists or researchers who had not many things to do except for eating,sleeping and thinking. I always considered them to be elite among the engineering fraternity. I was not among them..and that was something that was quite achievable atleast in comparison to dancing or singing--which perhaps I can never be good at. The mind was wandering around. It was thinking of enough ways to boost the technical ego and raise you salary figures except for the way of working honestly in what you do--Nah that's not me again. My Professor used to say you always hold your ears over your head...Perhaps true. I thought about doing a Phd.(sounds so cool) or an MS and if not anything may be an M. Tech. perhaps from IISC. Any of the options were good enough but perhaps few have the desires but not the means to fulfill them. I never saved a penny to even think about doing those courses by leaving my current job which paid me decently enough to live a normal life in a city. Then I Just cam accross this Ad of a guy called dattareya who started India's first non degree course in machine learning. O-level and A-level that's sounds typical computer courses but yes he started it on perhaps the most elite branches of computing. I called him and after a normal discussion I decided I can go for this course. It would be ego boost if not anything else. Uppi my friend who works for dell research (the biggest job hopper who plans to leave before he joins a company) to join me for this course...and then it started.

Advanced Linear algebra, probability theory and statistics and conver optimization- these were the pre requisites to the machine learning game. That's sounds so mathematical and wat's better to feel like a Hero that to be associated with them.

It's been 6 lectures-I am struggling with Maths but who cares I know I'll slog and eventually would float around. The feeling is good -though the maths seems so horribly complex.I do not think what it is going to change in my life ...but all I know is it's elite...supervised learning, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, NLP, data mining..ah sounds so good right??????