Showing posts with label nitc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nitc. Show all posts

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" :).

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Boring sem ahead??

How true is the fact that anything done in excess turns out to be an addiction... from the beginning of this month I've been sleeping so late into the night...or rather the wee hours of morning after watching movies on the LAN...and now we supposedly have "high speed " net... so chatting has become another favourite pasttime. I just wanted a break from the "NITC" life. So I hibernated into the virtual world for almost 2 weeks. Probably created a record by watching 6 movies in one day.Now comes the "BANG" -->reality... just a year left..quit the virtual world and come into terms with reality. I love this place and I'm sure I'll miss it.So I've taken a decision ...Want to actually talk(as in vocally ;) ) to all my batchmates(lets start with classmates first) and get to atleast know all of them by their name.Rather far fetched eh?
It's rather grim that most of us do not even know many of our own batchmates.Maybe we ought to have some 4th yr party. How many of us have actually spoken to all our classmates...even if it's just a word? Some of us have quit trying... thinking that it's no use.. so get stuck with the same gang in class or another gang outside class.I've decided to actually go ahead and break the ice(in case it exists) with my classmates. Easier said than done.. but It's worth the effort.If we never live atleast the last year of our college life enjoying every part of it,then we'll only regret it later. Guess we'll have some exciting stuff this year..now that we have elections :) ...after a gap of one year ..

Monday, June 16, 2008

The Best Alternative…

I have wanted to write testimonials for quite a few people, but the idea of logging to orkut and firing off testimonials rather puts me off, apart from the fact that I would hav innumerable friend requests to accept/reject and umpteen scraps to reply to…nah I’m not blowing my trumpet. It’s just that orkut’s blocked in Abu Dhabi …where I had spent my vacs for a month.
So here goes:
Gayo : I’ve promised her to write a testi for quite some time :D.
My 1st year roommate, so full of energy and enthusiasm. A great friend and a mobile phone addict (each call duration is in hours…never minutes..Neethix n me always wonder where she gets so much topics to talk on!!). Well known for her laughter. She has reached the limit of answering phone calls with her laugh, chucking the traditional “hello”. A great food lover, anyone gets anything from home, Gayo’s always there :D. She’s too good that way…she’ll eat almost anything. A good listener and an impulsive person. Short tempered at times…

Jamz: A very understanding friend, who’s always been there thru’ thick and thin(however chiche it sounds…). Given thoughtful advice and encouragement. Can’t write more…she’s just such a sweet friend.

Neethix:This is for my testimonial which she accidentally removed from orkut…or so she says ;)… Lots have changed since the last testi i wrote for her. My adjacent floor mate who’s one of the coolest girls I’ve met. Someone who has been there during “troubled times”… Well,I guess this is a bit too cryptic, but can’t mention more about it. A brilliant girl who’s given me a rather flattering testimonial in orkut :D.

Paro: An all rounder… a phodu in nitc lingo…a very friendly girl with a great social network….mind u it’s WAN not LAN(okay PJ…).Impulsive by nature. Might lose temper at times ;). Fun to b around with.

Meenu: Well, Meenu is one person who there’s no words to describe.. the most methodical person I’ve ever met. A very practical girl who’s been a great counselor… stopping me from taking impulsive decisions which might hav been catastrophic  .
You can easily identify her room… it’s got lot’s of post-it scraps stuck on her door with everyone asking her to wake them up…she’s a good alarm ;)

Loads of people to write about…the list continues on…Nami, V. Kavi, Kavi Mohan, Neethu.
Ps: 3rd year girls note: This time Nami would surely have to jump from the parapet. She’ll surely get the best actress award one day … 

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Another sem over,we are final years!!

We have finally come to the end of a "long" sem at NITC...s6 Btech..long and hectic.Our seniors are leaving and we are goin 2 be the 4th yrs...a.k.a the "jobless" 4th yrs..wonder how it's going to be,coz until now we had all revved up days,in the sense loads of work,labs and submissions.Everyday there was something or the other...next sem we have just one lab.
Tis sem was different in a variety of ways:
Firstly,this sem was a pretty long one in the sense...many activities got postponed...due to unfortunate circumstances...had loadz of holidays too...due to all this.
Secondly there was a start to new things,some startling revelations,some really sad events, so many new couples ;) and many more.
Thirdly,in Lh, we managed to convince the authorities to renovate the Basketball court...now it's cemented and has a ring,though I must confess that the court is being used for many other activities other than basketball...
Fourthly,normally at the end of the sem,when the end sems are over...everyone tends to be in a happy mood...but this time...all my friends and me...all of us were feeling very wierd and sad.Reasons being different ranged from seniors leaving to we being 4th yrs(leaving within a year).
Fifthly, we went on a trip to bangalore.
The best part is even in 4th year we are staying in the same hostel.I love this place...have been in this hostel since second year.As I have mentioned in one of my earlier posts...none of have any intentions of shifting to the new hostel...it's like dungeons,though the rooms are more spacious.The current first years are shifting there.
Finally, I hate to admit this, but I'll miss this sem,I know many of my friends will disagree on this point,but I can't help it. There are many reasons like I had my many "firsts" in this sem and I loved it.
This sem was pretty fast too,very fast with not many instructional days. One more year in this college and we are leaving...it's hard to imagine. I still remember my first day at college, me sitting with thanu.I remember my first year days with my dear "roomies",gayo n divya.Since there was absolutely no change in the classrooms...always stuck in the main block,there are no memories of the DB.
Before I get too emotional thinking about past stuff, I'm signing out :)
cheers
Anna

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Ragam 08...My Muse,My Canvas

Ragam's back again this time...Today was the inauguration and performance by a band Raghu Dixit...mostly hindi pop. Tomorrow is the much awaited choreo nite.. that's one show i don't wan to miss! friday night is the Pro Show by Karthik (tamil singer) and finally on sat is the "creme de la creme" (read it as Fashion Show for the uninitiated). I guess this time Ragam is quite a low key affair considering the current scenario in our college. The accident of the Joint Convenor of Ragam was quite unfortunate.I guess our OAT(open air theatre) would be jam packed for the choreo nite. The last time when we had the pro show by Shaan, people were sitting on top of the walls of the OAT and wherever they could stand! That show was one of the best things that happened in NITC.
Chal then
Cya @ NITC during Ragam 08
After all it's all about U
For details check out the site ragam.org.in
Signing off
anna

Saturday, March 08, 2008

Changes...

“Nothing in this world is constant or forever except Change...”
Just the other day I was having a serious discussion with my friend about the changes in all our lives at the end of 3 yrs of our college life...There are so many changes and four years is a pretty long period in this college,but how fast it has gone none of us can grasp. Starting with 1st yr E batch , 2nd yr and 3rd yr comp sci has gone so fast...all that is left is memories. All of us have changed ..some for the better and some for the worse but nobody is the same.Most of us have done stuff we would have never done in school and would never do after we leave college. Many things had been first time for many people...
Initially when we started bunking class....we would feel guilty.. but later there's not even the guilt...classes have been bunked for reasons ranging from lab work to catching on sleep to plain laziness.
All the whacky stuff that we did in our 1st year for sangam, debutante, adrenaline ... some things make us laugh even now.. where as somethings make us turn red with embarassment.
I cannot imagine how “well” comp sci had performed for the ADZAP in 1st yr...n loadz of other events where we do wacky stuff...reaching the limit of our creativity. In LH we have this “ 300's “ group ...that's the ppl who stay in the 3rd floor of 3rd yr block in LH. One crazy gang of people.. who have many things in common other than being on the 3rd floor... we tend 2 be extremely creative duriing exam times (read as “hyperactive”) ...celebrate “FP” days (facepack days where v have photo shoots) and solve ABC puzzles(somethin to do with people being A B and C.. n guess them.. from our colg.. n mostly from our yr...it leads to startling relevations ;)...) and loadz of other similar stuff just 2 days before the exams. Once celebrating an inmate's b'day .. one of the 300's ..Supi ran with the whole cake and the rest of the 300's running behind her.. it was 12:15 and the rest of the hostel was quiet... soon the gaurds came running thinking that some robber had crept into LH...what they saw made them mad...they cursed and went back... :) One crazy gang of ppl.. n i'll miss evyrone of them.. we were thinkin what wud have happened if we hadn't ended up taking rooms in the top floor in the 2nd yr... (we have single rooms) ...being in any other floor and with any other set of ppl wud never be the same...never the same fun... ervy single one.. nami , supi, viddi , anita , shane , meenu , paro , neethiks , gayo , jamz , krishna , kavi , cini , sheba , nematho , neethu , ria , reshmi , reeni ...hope i have included every 300. Always before the exams every single 300 would have to discuss ervythin under the sun except for studies...which comes as part of the discussion somewhere. While every other floor would be quiet only the 3rd floor would have ppl talking and laughing...ofcourse by 9 the talks die down since the next day would be the sessionals. A rumour about exams getting postponed would be enough to start a celebration...I remember when the college had an epidemic of chicken pox.. the day before the exams someone said that exams are postponed..n ervy1 started celebrating...the next day came to know that the 1st yrs and 2nd yrs have leave for 2 weeks and we have the sessionals the next day!! Even this time before the 2nd sessionals someone said something about sports day.. n there was a huge uproar...which was later never spoken about.
I'm sure that if there's anything i would definitely miss in this college it would be the LH(ladies hostel for the uninitiated). Everything else comes after that. Our comp sci class has grown closer after the b'lore trip... unfortunately all were not there... but the trip would be a memorable one for quite a few.
About the trip in another post...
till then
adieu

Monday, December 31, 2007

Goodbye 007

thats another year gone by,n tomorrow is the beginning of a new year, a new day. Turning a new leaf has been my new year resolution many a time. Last year on 1st Jan I remember having a lab... had class from morning 8 till evening 5... this time it's not that hectic. One thing I noticed about 2008 is that there are very few holidays... most of them happen to fall on a sat or a sunday.. how tragic, that reduces the number of days we can fool around!
So what is special tonight? As usual planning to have a party but this time it's with the fourth years...our dear seniors :)
bidding adieu to the year gone by... the fun filled days,the troublesome days, the 3 month long vacation, The "ragam" and the "Tathva", the LH farewell organised by us 3rd years which was unanimously agreed upon to be the best LH farewell ever.(i'm serious .. our seniors complemented us )...IT WAS PURE FUN,a great year!
Wishing everyone a happy NEW YEAR 2008!!!
goodbye n goodluck
signing off
anna

Thursday, December 20, 2007

ITS begun...

Unfortunately our vacations have come to an end.. and I had to return back to college for another hectic semester..probably the most hectic sem.our project last sem had gone rather well.. we managed to host our HomePage Generator(HPGEN) in our department server.. for ppl within colg pls chk out..
http://192.168.40.99/~b050402cs/
You can create your homepage and add your link to our software... so that people within NITC campus can view your homepage.
it is hosted on our athena server..(the server for computer sceince department) planning to make a few more changes.. improvise on it n release version 1.1 :)
Now it's Christmas time and we have a short break of 6 days.. thanks to our class rep who managed to postpone classes to another day.
Going home in a day's time.
Merry Christmas...
signing off
anna

Monday, October 22, 2007

dilemma...what next?

hi folks.. i'm back.. needless to say,i've been in standby mode(trying to portray my comp sci traits) for a long time... thanks to the overwhelmingly hectic work load and other activities...
Having a lab like Nachos along with a full fledged project work...i know it begins in s6.. but for us, it's software engineering project work.. which we have to submit this friday, a presentation on our Home Page Generator for faculty and students on CSED..I have absolutely no time, but still i am in a dilemma regarding my future plans after BTech..
Everyone around here are going for CAT classes .. yeah the TIME centre near Lovely Foods.. and i wonder what do I do? I defenitely believe in working for sometime.. but then i wonder if i'll ever be able to bell the CAT with the strenuous work load!! that led me to think about MS or MTECH.. but still i'm confused...after NITC what?
okay have 2 go back to my project work.. as i have plans of completing it...hope it goes well.. anyways it's hundred times better than having to mug up Somerville..Phew..!!

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

tathva..inspiring innovations

within a few weeks time.. to be precise, in 2 weeks, tathva our major technical fest @ nitc is going to start.. 28th,29th and 30th of september..this is one major event to look forward to.. considering the fact that probably ragam might not be there.. due to last years happenings during ragam... n the aftermath..
anyways .. life right now is pretty hectic and trying to fit in evrything... is getting quite hard ...as i said life is all about priorities and paradigm shifts...

nwayz signing off...
got to catch up with the PAD work
PS: pls chk out the site: http://www.tathva.org

Friday, October 20, 2006

tathva..grey matters

i'm feeling really low about not being able to blog for such a long time..and i seud to be reminded of this fact by a friend of mine.. who would ask me why i stopped blogging everytime he saw me.. n there r no points for guessing this person..hopefully when the person reads this.. he'll probably sent a msg in shout box! okay comin to serious stuff.. tathva...
for the uninitiated ..tathva is a AI TECH FEST organised by nitc...
its high level contests n also there are informals.. so folks.. gear up n try to win something.. the stakes are high.. n yeah like the old adage.. participating is more important than winning!
so ppl intested ..there are loadsa different competitions pertaining to different branches.. check out the site.. http://www.tathva.nitc.ac.in.. its really 1derful.. u can also join the forum there ..
n yes ppl form other colgs.. u can even come for just watching the stuff goin on here.. there will always be some stuff goin on...in the evenings will be the much awaited musical nites... n it is on the 27th, 28th n 29th of october..
chalo
cya during tathva..2006
signing off
anna

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

LIFE AT NITC

my name is anna thomas..studying in nitc ...CSE currently in 2nd year. ...yup 2 more years b4 leaving this place. here life is really cool. this place is always ..buzzling with activities be it cultural activities like Ragam..technical festivals like Tatwa...or even the (yawn) sessional or end sems. then we have the never ending musical nites.....n the same ol' borin movies screened at our gr8 Aryabhatta hall.
yup v did get to see rang de basanti...one of the screened movies.
then the timings of these great festivals..sangam..the 1st year 'unforgettable' event was just b4 the 2st sessional of our 1st semseter...then the basic rule here is "sessionals come n go..but these events are once ina lifetime events".....
people who can manage their time effectively between extra curricular activites n studies are the winners at the end of the day. there are numerous clubs out here...being junoir exes of these clubs is another thing. doing something worthwhile while we are still at nitc is up to us..instead of simply squatting our time at the 'LH' we could always do something like developing projects..taking part in industrial traning..not just for the sake of credits.
then another thing almos all nittians hate about this place is the 80 % attendance! that just implies we could miss just five classes for subjects with 5 credits and 10 classes with subjects with 4 credits.....the consequences of bunking more classes is really scary...you will end up NOT WRITING YOUR END SEMESTER EXAMS DUE TO ATTENDANCE SHORTAGE!!!
then ofcourse there is the medical certificate option..but you have to get it from the 'NITC Doctor'...certifying that you were genuinely ill..(still face the disbelieving looks on the faculty advisros face!) AND.... you can submit only 3 medical certificates in the course of 4 years! so if you are really a person with a stroke of ill luck and always have the tendency of falling ill just before your exams..goodbye...my friend ..NITC is NOT the right place for you.
then chaley chalo....if you still think you have something you can offer NITC ..or you can crack the AIEEE and get to NITC...way to go..my friend..cya soon ..n don worry about the ragging part..i can assure you this place ..rocks...just chill..whther you are in 1st year or fourth year...ragging is out of question...(yup there is a bit here n there...yaya just 4 namesake)...
tc