Nov 29, 2010

Things I did in TWENTY10

This post is a reply/update to 'Things to be done in TWENTY10!'

What I had planned and what happened. I will copy paste the part I had planned from the original post and then follow it up with what I actually did.

January: Attend the 'Industrial Visit' and hopefully, I won't actually have a poem like 'The Contrive' to write like I had last time around.

Attended the 'Industrial Visit' and it was way more fun with 7-8 of us hanging together all the time. We were like the outcast people but we certainly enjoyed it. And I can write a lot more than a poem like 'The Contrive' (The Contrive is a poem I had written after my 1st IV. You can find it on my blog itself) on what all happened on the IV. I can, but I wont. Too embarrassing.

February: Organise 'SPACE 2010 - Revolutionise the way you see'. I hope it turns out to be the best festivals that the BE's have seen in their 4 years of engineering.
Sem 5 result expected.

Organised SPACE and was told by the BE's that it was indeed one of the best festivals they have seen in our college. I take them by their word, I am not complaining. Sem 5 results were declared and I had passed. :-)

March: My sisters wedding. Help out my family with the preparation. Rishkul and Suresh were very happy that my parents invited them for the wedding. Foodie rascals! Are only interested in food that is going to be served.
If not in February, results will certainly be out in this month.

I didn't get to eat much during the reception. :-(

April: Journal submissions and viva preparations. Yeah, again the same old shit. :-(

As I said, same old shit.

May: College ends, vivas start and mid May come the dreadful Sem 6 written exams. :-(

I said no, dreadful.

June: Exams continue and end mid June. After that enjoy.
Oh yeah, I would have had to decide between GATE, GRE, Placements and/or CAT by this time. :-( Some one help. :-(
Ok, here it goes. If i decide I'm going to take GRE, study for GRE. Same goes for whichever exam I decide to take.

I decided, I have no interest in MS studies. Skipped GRE. Had decided to start studying for CAT. Never happened.

July: Enjoy the vacation and pretty much do the same I do by the end of June. Study for higher education entrance examinations.
Oh yes, I forgot, college reopens.
Also, will know by now if I have internship in the final year or screw myself with new subjects in Sem 8. :-(
Will the placement process start? :-/

College reopened. Didn't study for CAT. Learnt, we have no internship and normal 2 semesters of college. Yes, screw myself with new subjects. Also, placement process did start with we being informed that L&T is scheduled to visit in first week of August.

August: If I decide to take GRE, take it now.
Will have to decide my final year BE project.
Will the placement process start? :-/

No GRE. Final Year Project: GPS Based Vehicle Tracking System. Also, placement process started. I was placed in L&T. Serious, I didnt prepare either for the aptitude test or the interview. Luck, it is called.

September: My mothers birthday on the first day of this month. Will celebrate. :D
And yeah, good GRE score means I would start with the application process.
Also, study for CAT. Timepass, you see.
Work on BE project.
Will the placement process start? :-/

Celebrated mothers birthday, forgot how. Didn't appear for GRE, so no application process. Didn't study for CAT either. Lmao @ working on BE project.

October: Ohhhh, here comes journal completion, submission and viva preparation again. Engineering, I tell you! :-(
Prepare to take the CAT. (GRE or no GRE)
Work on BE project.
Will the placement process start? :-/

Journal completion - Check; Submission - Check; Viva Preparation - LMAO
CAT - Didn't study
BE Project - Didn't work on it
Placement - Done

November: Vivas, Practicals!
And yeah, CAT! (Again, GRE or no GRE)
Celebrate dad's birthday!
Will the placement process start? :-/

Vivas only. No practicals in BE. :D Worst vivas I have ever faced. My confusing arose from the fact that after securing a job in 'electronics', I was asked by two external if I was really worthy of being an engineer.
CAT - Was a good experience.
Didn't quite celebrate dad's birthday.


A month more to go. I should say I have been happy with my year so far. Wait, a month long exam to go? Will I say the same on 27th December at 1.30 pm when I walk out of my examination hall? Only time will tell.


Will leave you with a graph I made. Works for all Mumbai University engineering students.


Nov 16, 2010

Format, should we?

Lets start with a off topic. PL's are the time when blogging activity is on its high. You get a lot of material worth reading, you get a lot of ideas to write. On a typical PL evening, at 1834 hours, I have a weird thought.

What if we had a 'format' button in life? Just like our PC. Lets get our analogy right here.

Hardware - Physical features like height, weight, looks. Intelligence which can be compared to motherboard, so that remains the same.

Operating System: Here, we have a complex structure. What should we include and what we should not? Lets say a engineering student will include engineering traits. Lets just say, all traits. The operating system decides how well our hardware works, or how badly it works. Hardware and Software compliment each other. Well, actually everything is dependent on each other. No part of our body, or no part of our PC can function on its own. So yeah, operating system will include your behaviour, your positives and negatives, your susceptibility in certain areas whereas your strong points in certain others. (If I had been a computer student, I would have drawn an analogy between Windows Vista or Linux)

Data: They are the set of people you mingle with. We shall include applications that we run on our operating system in here. Teachers and Parents, can take the place of antivirus. Slow down the system, but eventually help us. Friends, can take the place of an explorer. Can be used for good as well as bad things (google.com and some porn website). Some friends are harmless. (facebook.com) And, then you have a host of other applications. Too much of an analogy to draw.

So, the question here is, should we or should we not have an option of formatting our life? Even when we format, we can always keep raw data, reinstall an application and use the data again. Our Hardware always remains same, we can just increase certain specifications, by adding add-on devices.

If you think closely, you always change applications in life. It is an ongoing process. You change your job. An application gets boring after a certain time, while some other application becomes interesting. An application just goes corrupt. You sometimes cannot access a data because it has been affected by virus. The point here is, we change applications, but do we change the operating system? We always add service packs to our operating system, but never change it altogether. Why?

Anyway, is it in our interest to do it?


(Please excuse me for haphazard discussion of points)

Nov 5, 2010

Aur Mujhe Kya Laga

My first impression of Sardar Patel Institute of Technology.

The day I got admission, 11.30 am to be precise, RD asked me to attend lectures after lunch. I didn't agree.

The next day, my first lecture was Mathematics and the professor for the same was Nida ma'am. I didn't like her in the first lecture, couldn't hear her voice. I was obviously sitting on the last bench even in my first lecture. Well, all that 'not liking' changed. She was the best professor in FE.

OK , now to my post. Mujhe mere class mates ke baare mai eekdum start mai kya laga :-

Rishkul: I felt your name was spelt Hrishkul. And yeah, I even felt the only thing that has carried you so far is studies. You sat on the first bench and all na. Then you became a part of Guitar Workshop and my Yahoo Messenger contacts.

Siddharth: I felt you were a Bihari. Thank your surname for the perception. Somewhere within me there is 1% Raj Thackarey minus the violence. Someone had told me that you had taken part in Boogie Woogie! LOL! ROFL! :P Also felt you must be one of those 'Yo' guys! The typical townie kinds. :P

Suresh: Everyone says you have a great voice when they first meet you. I didn't feel like that. Sorry, but still don't feel like that. :P Never had much of an opinion about you, but you started answering all Nida ma'am's questions in the first lecture. Also, Bhavsar's lecture! Wasn't good!

Apurva: The girl with lots and lots of attitude problem. :P It changed. I know you have no such 'attitude problem'.

Kirti: Nerd, padhaku! Well, still the same. :P But we managed to change you for the good. You are now less of a nerd and padhaku. :P

Shilpa: You were the first girl I had seen abusing. Seriously. Hindi gaalis are a big no-no for others. And where have you forgotten your 'F%^$ing B$£"!$%d'? Woh Hostel gaali's of AHLL and PHLL are boring. Seriously. :P

Then I woudn't like to name the person here but I felt he must be like the super intelligent kinds. Knows almost everything. Sorry, knows everything. Come Second Year and all that perception changed. :P ETRX 2011 batch, keep guessing who the person is.

Some people I had no firsts: Saransh, Prasad, Husain, Kaushik and many others.


PS: This post was written way back in March and I am posting it now.