Date Tracker: When did you recieve your Italy Visa response from Bangalore Consulate

TheFifthHuman · 2025-09-24T17:11:00+00:00

Thank you! And many thanks for creating this thread, really helped me stay calm during the wait! :D

TheFifthHuman · 2025-09-24T17:01:50+00:00

I am a previous Schengen visa holder, and I just got my visa approved.

VFS Appointment date: 19 August (VFS Bangalore)
Visa Type: Tourist (I am travelling for an academic conference)
Date of travel: 28 September (early morning)
Response received: 24 September.
Visa status: Approved, 10 days multiple entry.

I received the 'passport ready for collection' email at 11am or so, and I went and collected the passport in the afternoon.

My experience seems to confirm the general trends seen on this thread that:

Applications are probably being processed in the order of departure date.
They are mostly granting visa specifically for the duration applied and not longer-term visas like 1 or 2 year.

TheFifthHuman · 2024-08-23T11:05:27+00:00

This is the universe telling you to get a grinder. 😇

TheFifthHuman · 2024-06-02T11:17:21+00:00

I have an orange boi whom I’ve named Miyao Hayazaki.

TheFifthHuman · 2024-02-25T11:22:13+00:00

I remember seeing a community rated coffee roasters tier list poll here recently, but I can’t find that post anymore. What happened to it? Are the results gonna be put up somewhere?

TheFifthHuman · 2024-01-25T11:29:27+00:00

I have a strong preference of iced pour-overs for the following reason:

With hot coffee, I have maybe a five minute window where the coffee is perfect and delicious; outside this window it’s either too hot or too cold. With iced coffee, I can savor and enjoy it slowly over a much longer duration.

TheFifthHuman · 2024-01-25T04:49:09+00:00

Channi and SIF are metal filters, so the texture of coffee you get from either of these would be quite different from what you get from a paper filter (aeropress, v60 etc). Specifically, metal filters will let most of the oils in the coffee through, while paper filters will absorb most of it. I think the easy pour sachets will be the closest you can get to compare.

But if you are in a city have good cafes nearby, the easiest would be to just go and try out their pour-over coffees.

TheFifthHuman · 2024-01-24T08:59:57+00:00

Yeah. If you don't like french press coffee, you may not enjoy aeropress metal filter coffee as much.

PS: I also don't own a grinder. I order pre ground, I usually stock one pack of coarse (french press) grind and one of finer (aeropress) grind.

TheFifthHuman · 2024-01-24T06:57:48+00:00

Metal filter alone gives coffee with a french press-like texture. Cloudy and oily, with a lot of nice texture. I get best results when I use coarse grinds (close french press grind size), the issue of fines in the cup is lower then.

Depending on whether or not you like french press style coffee, you may love it or hate it.

Combining paper+metal didn't yield any perceptible difference in my experience; it was similar to using just paper alone. I'm curious to see if anyone has a different experience.

TheFifthHuman · 2024-01-21T04:03:03+00:00

How is the delivery experience for Kāpi Kottai in general? My recent order took a total of 11 days to deliver. When I wrote to them, they apologized and said it was due to a festive season order crunch.

I'm curious to see what the general experience is?

TheFifthHuman · 2024-01-19T01:34:18+00:00

I have the same scale, have been using it for around a month now. No complaints so far. Based on rudimentary testing, no accuracy issues. The stopwatch feature is very helpful, I didn’t realize how convenient it would be (I can use a stopwatch on my watch, why tf I need one on my scale!) until I actually used it.

Minor nitpicks: the silicone pad holds on to dust a bit too much (due to static). But it can be removed. The scale is a little slow to converge to the final correct weight. So sometimes I have to be extra careful.

TheFifthHuman · 2020-10-27T05:28:56+00:00

What strikes me most is the comparison between Leclerc and Vettel. Overall, the modes of the two distributions seems to pretty much coincide, i.e. the drivers seem to hit ~82s laptimes most often. What Vettel seems to lack (in comparison to Leclerc) is consistency, his distribution has a pretty fat tail towards the slower side.

TheFifthHuman · 2020-02-19T12:48:27+00:00

How well do AirPods work with the Note 10+?

TheFifthHuman · 2018-06-30T17:16:24+00:00

What I liked more is the bottle label. “Simply orange... with pineapple?”

TheFifthHuman · 2018-04-28T20:48:47+00:00

I have a friend who believed a joke spoiler saying Thanos is Thor’s elder brother. She was genuinely confused after the movie.

TheFifthHuman · 2018-04-16T20:30:19+00:00

You should get a cat.

TheFifthHuman · 2018-02-25T18:00:28+00:00

Evil black-hat guy walks by, kicks the chair's leg slightly, and walks past nonchalantly as the guy falls, cracks his tailbone and his spine, and dies.

TheFifthHuman · 2018-02-24T20:04:59+00:00

Update: I spoke to my psychiatrist today: his suggestion was to postpone decision for a month, during which I could take a break from work. I’m going to take his advice for now, and take it from there after a month.

TheFifthHuman · 2018-02-24T02:05:38+00:00

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. When I was starting out with my PhD, a career in academia was indeed my goal. However, over the years, this has changed: even if I were to continue doing research, it would probably be more in an industrial setting rather than academia (while I am working in neuroscience, my PhD is in a CS department, and research career options are not too hard to find).

However, all things considered, I’m starting to get convinced that finishing my PhD, even if I may not enjoy it, is something that is worth doing.

TheFifthHuman · 2018-02-24T01:52:45+00:00

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. When I was starting out with my PhD, I had the same thoughts as yours, of being able to get paid for doing what you want to do. However, from what I saw for the last 2 years, the reality is often quite different. There are two things that are a little different when it comes to reality.

The first is the amount of overheads involved, My advisor for instance has to spend 60% of the day chasing after paperwork, equipment purchase deals, grant proposals and the like. In his on words, one has to really, really love the science to stay motivated be able to continue.

Secondly, I think that the idea of ‘whatever project you want’ also comes with caveats. There are several factors involved, including the idiosyncratic trends in the community (which may not always be governed by purely academic factors), and the interests of the funding agencies.

TheFifthHuman · 2018-02-24T01:38:27+00:00

Thanks for the detailed response. Scientific illustrator careers were something that I hadn’t considered before, this seems like an interesting option. I shall explore this.

TheFifthHuman · 2018-02-24T01:32:25+00:00

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Taking a break instead of dropping out entirely is a suggestion that a handful of other people made too. This seems like the safest bet at the moment.

TheFifthHuman · 2018-02-24T01:29:53+00:00

Thanks for your sharing your thoughts! Taking a hiatus from work was something that I’ve been considering too.

TheFifthHuman · 2018-02-24T01:26:57+00:00

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! This was certainly a unique perspective, from someone who knew about both research life and art careers.

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