So many things have happened in the past few months...it was like a hurricane..moving at lightning speed...the gud,the bad and the ugly :-). So now I'm blogging about the close of chapter TWO in my life..the life @ NITC..the college life..almost the best 4 yrs of my life. The last few days were memorable...celebrated my 1st and last birthday in LH and it was the last midnight birthday party in LH of the 05-09 girls batch @ NITC...one rocking batch with the fewest memos possible :P
We had procession,csea farewell,branch treat @ sea queen..and sandwiched between all this was the running around for the "no dues certificate"...loadz n loadz of stuff. It was quite fast...a blur was what the last few days were.
So now comes a new beginning(yea yea..:P)...a different world, no matter how much i want to still cling to chapter TWO...we have to stride to chapter THREE in our lives...uncertain of wat lies ahead in store for us...
PS:spending a good vac @ auh meeting old frnds, tweeting and facebooking(i know there's no such term..but heck..who cares!!)
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Saturday, February 07, 2009
world getting way too high tech
Just the other day, i read a post that would definitely evoke different sentiments in different people...chk it out:
prodigy kid
It's about a 9 yr old kid writing iphone applications :O.. Must be a child prodigy. Anyways we are 21 yr olds copying codes for lab assignments. That's okay..in my opinion, the guy(9 yr old) is missing out on a lot of things that normal 9 yr olds do...
"What you focus on decides what you miss". It's all a matter of choice and of course the amount of effort varies depending on what we focus.
Seriously, I'm wondering--> can a 9 yr old be passionate about programming??!
Developing such an awesome software is definitely mind blowing...frankly the kind of stuff he has done..I'm sure most of us would not even be able to imagine coding for it...even if he was an 18 yr old!
prodigy kid
It's about a 9 yr old kid writing iphone applications :O.. Must be a child prodigy. Anyways we are 21 yr olds copying codes for lab assignments. That's okay..in my opinion, the guy(9 yr old) is missing out on a lot of things that normal 9 yr olds do...
"What you focus on decides what you miss". It's all a matter of choice and of course the amount of effort varies depending on what we focus.
Seriously, I'm wondering--> can a 9 yr old be passionate about programming??!
Developing such an awesome software is definitely mind blowing...frankly the kind of stuff he has done..I'm sure most of us would not even be able to imagine coding for it...even if he was an 18 yr old!
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Last Sem...
So this is it. It's nearing the end of a 4 year saga at NITC. haven't written anything for the past few months. Notable events are quite a handful!On the technical front, we finally installed moodle server at NITC.. all thanks to "hash" :-).Moodle is supposed to be a course management software, which is free and open source! Anything you want to do in a course.. like conducting quizzes,assignments,grading etc.. u name it.. it's there in moodle.
I had just taken a seminar/presentation/demo of moodle for the faculty. I sincerely hope all of them use it... considering the time and effort put into it by so many people like Deepak sir,hanoosh etc... I started enjoying the LAB admin work. I actually have fallen in love with the LAB.. though it would probably never reach as much as Hash's love for LAb :P. Another reason I love the lab os the fact that we do not have NEt in the morning in hostel.. yea! only for girls :(.from 8-2 p.m. We hav complained to everyone possible.. written petitions, verbally complained what not!...but all in vain :(
On the personal front... past few months have been quite a struggle.. trying to get over an addiction... movie addiction.I sit in front of the computer for more than 5 minutes.. and LO! switch on lansurfer and see as many movies as possible.. till i finally get a headache.
Coming to college, life is just the same.Class is the same. Though we hardly ever meet our classmates much thanks to different electives and just one core subject.Some of us actually have fridays off since electives are in a such a way that 1 and 1/2 hour each in 2 days a week rather than 3 hours a week. So that makes it a 3 day holiday in a week!Thankfully I don't have it that way..i say thankfully coz seriously after a few weeks.. i bet it would start gettin boring.. plus 1 and 1/2 hr continously is too much.I slept through my first ever 1 and 1/2 hour class, thanks to the timing in the afternoon...We might hopefully go on some trip this semester considering that we are probably the only branch in 4th yr who have never ever gone on a trip.. excluding of course what we call the "bangalore trip" :).
I had just taken a seminar/presentation/demo of moodle for the faculty. I sincerely hope all of them use it... considering the time and effort put into it by so many people like Deepak sir,hanoosh etc... I started enjoying the LAB admin work. I actually have fallen in love with the LAB.. though it would probably never reach as much as Hash's love for LAb :P. Another reason I love the lab os the fact that we do not have NEt in the morning in hostel.. yea! only for girls :(.from 8-2 p.m. We hav complained to everyone possible.. written petitions, verbally complained what not!...but all in vain :(
On the personal front... past few months have been quite a struggle.. trying to get over an addiction... movie addiction.I sit in front of the computer for more than 5 minutes.. and LO! switch on lansurfer and see as many movies as possible.. till i finally get a headache.
Coming to college, life is just the same.Class is the same. Though we hardly ever meet our classmates much thanks to different electives and just one core subject.Some of us actually have fridays off since electives are in a such a way that 1 and 1/2 hour each in 2 days a week rather than 3 hours a week. So that makes it a 3 day holiday in a week!Thankfully I don't have it that way..i say thankfully coz seriously after a few weeks.. i bet it would start gettin boring.. plus 1 and 1/2 hr continously is too much.I slept through my first ever 1 and 1/2 hour class, thanks to the timing in the afternoon...We might hopefully go on some trip this semester considering that we are probably the only branch in 4th yr who have never ever gone on a trip.. excluding of course what we call the "bangalore trip" :).
Monday, September 15, 2008
Hamara Bharath Mahan (!?!)
Disclaimer: Firstly this is personal opinion, I just thought it's high time we spent some time in retrospection on the current state of affairs in India. Bharath here implies INDIA ;)
On a serious note, whats happening in India? Secular India... We are the engineers of our country, but how is the knowledge put into use, making bombs using ammonium nitrate, hacking into accnts and sending mails, sending mails from fake accounts. Shame on us. We see movies like rang de basanti... we see the news with blood splattered bodies lying around crying for help, we VOW to bring about change in our country, we talk ILL about our politicians, frankly what else do we do? n yes we write essays on our vision for INDIA... even if it's purely for the credit;).
Extremism exists in all religions. Tolerance has gone down too low. Atrocities against christians, recent ones being in Orissa, has been on the rise. The hindu-muslim riots can be traced back to our independence. We blame Jinnah and Pakistanies blame Ghandiji/Nehru.
The recent bomb blasts in Delhi with IM claiming responsibility for it is THE final straw. The most depressing fact is that these terror attacks have their origin from Indian soil, the devil is within our country itself. B'lore,Hyderabad, Jaipur and now Delhi. Mumbai and karnataka on red alert... frankly is it time to declare emergency rule here? like during the time of Indira Gandhi, clean up the dirty politics and bring the terrorists to court.
On a serious note, whats happening in India? Secular India... We are the engineers of our country, but how is the knowledge put into use, making bombs using ammonium nitrate, hacking into accnts and sending mails, sending mails from fake accounts. Shame on us. We see movies like rang de basanti... we see the news with blood splattered bodies lying around crying for help, we VOW to bring about change in our country, we talk ILL about our politicians, frankly what else do we do? n yes we write essays on our vision for INDIA... even if it's purely for the credit;).
Extremism exists in all religions. Tolerance has gone down too low. Atrocities against christians, recent ones being in Orissa, has been on the rise. The hindu-muslim riots can be traced back to our independence. We blame Jinnah and Pakistanies blame Ghandiji/Nehru.
The recent bomb blasts in Delhi with IM claiming responsibility for it is THE final straw. The most depressing fact is that these terror attacks have their origin from Indian soil, the devil is within our country itself. B'lore,Hyderabad, Jaipur and now Delhi. Mumbai and karnataka on red alert... frankly is it time to declare emergency rule here? like during the time of Indira Gandhi, clean up the dirty politics and bring the terrorists to court.
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