Summary of this semester : Long post :( but definitely worth reading :)
So the semester started with the confirmation of a summer internship in ireland UCD dublin where i will be working on future version of mozilla-thunderbird email client!Then started my worry for my passport and intel results,Intel results came out absolutely fine and to the credit of my aggressive marketing we got selected among top-20 research projects in india :),despite having a terrible idea as our project.
Long live indian beauraurcracy!!But i think after many ifs and buts i managed to get my passport in my hands after exactly 61 days of my application.As i was engrossed in my pasport blues ,GATE-2006 came and gone before i even realised that i have to study for it ,to get a payment swithout work at IIT next year!!Thank God i had just learnt enough during my last 4 years that i cleared my GATE with a %le of 98.5,
which i truly believe has something fishy about it ,as i was dying to have a %le of 80...Anyways life can give u pleasent surprises and also the unimaginable scenes....and i will be the last person on this earth who will deny this fact!!After all "life is a long chain of surprises(that's my definition!!)"....Who would have thought 10 years before that i will be writing this post....arrrgh(sounds philosophical!!)
Ohh let me get back to my original topic.....so after GATE came SpringFest and for the first time i tried to enjoy my SF and i met 'her' through my dear friend RAJIV...
We developed an instant liking for eachother and later some messages exachanged on gtalk,ym,mobiles,orkut and some romantic meetings took place and before we both even suspected,we were in love!!Let me tell you its a pretty wonderful feeling to be in love and u kinda develop instant penchant for those usual "kumar sanu bollywood songs",
whom u cursed like anything before...suddenly they all start to make sense to u ....and i think that's also a criteria that u won't find anywhere else (except my blog!!) that perhaps u r in love.......
Anyways whole day's work and romantic nights became a norm.....it really feels nice that somebody cares for u so much (outside ur usual family)!!OKOK i won't say more ....as its a bit personal .
Then comes the long awaited grand-viva and now visa blues are engrossing me ....it unfolds that like indian beauraucracy irish embassy is also equally lethargic and unefficient!!
I don't know why proffs take grand-viva ?I don't think it serves anty purpose except the mental torture and funny situations we end up in during grand-vivas....anyways i will take grand viva in right spirit and i think the funny interaction gave me some of the funniest memoirs of my college life!!But still i believe that they shouldn't punish us twice for the same crime(read no study!!!) Anyways gv went OK and i got 'C' (which i expected after my theatrical performance!!)
While visa-worries were growing exponentially ,i was working on my DBMS project which was packet sniffer cum analyser and i put my heart and soul in that and came up with something very b'ful.
Did a lot of survey,research,coding in C++,C and java and learned the whole networking course in a new way and it reflected on the look of grader who somehow asked to publish a paper on the basis of asssignment!!!I was amused by the offer!!May be we will publish it in next semsester!!
As the dbms assignment faded and love in life soared up i faced yet another crisis in form of ML project and my btech project as my project partner was suffering from mental distress and bad time had begun.....
I don't know why my partner and friend lost mental balance perhaps he over analyses his life very much ...it kinda happens if u see ur present life with the perspective of a third person who is living after 15 yrs from now,all ur present activities suddenly seem meaningless ...and i think that's the cause of his mental depression....
Things were going really hard at btp front ...no support from partner and project coming to a dead end are never very good feelings .....i tried to run the code of a PHD but damn code won't run however hard i may try!!!I was getting desperate ......
Similarly on Machine learning front things were going awry as i wasn't attending the classes and so was my project partner and our project topic was as new to us as multiplication tables to an infant!!
Anyways i decided to do multitasking .....in days worked for BTP and classes ,early nights worked on Machine learning project and late nights gave time to my gf...
Ohh !!I forgot to mention i earned 30000 bucks in between all this on KASAMBA in one month!!
Anyways we managed to complete ML project just in time after a fruitful nightout and presented results when my partner didn't even knew what is there in slides!!!
The project was impressive enough to prompt evaluator to ask whether i would like to work on a Microsoft project next year on the similar lines!!!
I was pretty happy with my life right now visa blues over...all projects settled...one week to go before endsems ...but life gives u surprises when u least expect them.... 4 days before endsem and i end up with 5 stitches on my head in hospital after a freaky brawl......Suddenly i feel that life can be so short and i came back after an interview with the god where i analysed the futility of life!!!It changed me as a person and i don't cling on to anything in my life ..be it my love...success or fame.....all this is temporary but still i try to do my karma bcoz without it life will become meaningless yet again and i want to enjoy my life to the fullest ....
Did i mention in my post before that this sem i went on a 12 hrs DATE to kolkata ...it was an awesome trip ....everything went just right .......from RDB at inox to scheduling of trains!!!
Anyways i came back from hospital with thick bandadge on my head and immersed myself in preparation of endsems as only one day was left before exams ......
It feels really nice that ppl care for u and my buddies over last four yeara showed genuine concern about my well being....i will miss u all guys !!!
Endsems went well and i helped Nitzee my dear friend to prepare for his final endsems as well....and i believe it gave me tremedrous self-satisfaction whenever i used to see him writing during exams!!
Finally exams were over and stitches gone ......my btp partner now admitted to hospital in midnapur due to degrading conditions and i think i was pretty fortunate as he wasn't there during my project evaluation otherwise he would have messed up things with his penchant of speaking truth and nothing else!!!
Again i was scampered for time and embassy informed me that i should collect my visa from kolkata
immediately ....since some imporatnt documents were there in packet i had to go to visa offfice anyhow .....so on 2nd may i went to visa office to kolkata in this sultry heat and those 6:00 am to 4:00 pm were like hell to me as i hadn't written a word of of my eventual 71 pages thesis till then.The deadline was 4:00 pm 3rd of may.....After coming from kolkata i was totally exhausted and it seemed to me that my thesis can't be completed on time...I took a power nap ...and a late night bath and headed to department lab.....I worked for 15 hrs non-stop without any food or break and by bang 4:00 pm i was able to finsh my btech thesis eventually!!!
By then i was so exhausted with the proceedings in my life that i fealt like a zombie!!
Next day was presentation but after making my thesis ,i didn't had enough stamina to write the PPT as well..so i crashed on to my bed at 7 pm.....I woke up at 7 am ....presentation was at 9 am and again i immediately made my PPT in 1 hour straight hurriedly....
By god's grace everything went just fine in front of panel and hence i recieved my btech deservingly :).....
I hoped u liked the story of my 8th semester !!!
There are lots of challenges that lie ahead in my life in near future
here are some of them:
1.Write the intel thesis before 8th may
2.Do the kasamba project today
3.Do the early registration
4.catch flight to dublin on 10th may
5.talk to her
6.go home
Anyways lastly did I mention that i have managed to get 'A' grades in two out of three subjects this semester(3rd subject's grades are still awaited!!).....:)
So i believe all is well that ends well...I think this was the most challenging semster in my whole college life and i am content that i managed to come out with flying colors in a serial of unending twists in plot of my 8th semester.....now i can say that i am true IITian !!
Listening : Ya ali(Gangster)
Mood: Optimistic
Thinking:Lots of work to do today!!
posted by maxi @ 7:13 AM
