and thats how i graduated!

Date: 18 / Jun / 2011

Hey everyone! There has been a long gap between the last post and this one and I do have lot to divulge to my pensive.

Today happens to a very special day, as of 18 - March - 2011 I am no longer a engineering student but a COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING GRADUATE (Technically, I am stilling awaiting my results and convocation dress, and lets not to forget the degree!). Anyways, I had an amazing time over the last week, as i completed my project review (in style!) and had farewell parties for 3 continues days! However, today is most of the most special day as it was the official final farewell day hosted by the college.

Yesterday, we had a marvelous get together at Radiant Resorts where we danced, swam, gossiped, played variety of indoor and outdoor games and even had a very memorable game of truth and dare!

The below video is the final project demo. We remodeled the study lamp by adding a mini projector and a web cam to it to make an "Smart Lamp" or what we like to call Assisted Learning device (Actually, this was our title of our project!). So hit the play button and check out how this lamp can help readers find more information from the web on words which they are not familiar with.

Spam, Detours and Revelations.

I am back again, after a very long time. Over the past few months a lot has transpired and some of which were life changing events.

On my previous blog post, which I have just had the pleasure of readin

g, i seem to have mentioned about my ambitions for an early MBA degree. Well, after due diligence,research and enduring spam from a lot of MBA money leaches and bit of soul searching I recently came to a conclusion that it certainly wasn't right for me at this point of time. Hence, my MBA plans have come to a premature end. Experience of the process is always fruitful in someways, however this experience came at a pretty heavy cost, due to ludicrous application fees. :(

During the last month I have made new friends, who are

now incidentally also my business partners and hence have rekindle my entrepreneurial aspirations. We (Will mention their names in the next post, after company registration) are all set to take the detour, so called unbeaten path and dive into the entrepreneurship soon which might leave with even little time for posting blog posts. I already feel that i have splurged enough of my life on facebook and am resenting the idea of crossing the line, by posting too much of myself online anyways.

I have just stepped into my final semester, the final chapter, of my - " extra or

dinary " engineering life. Firstly, I must give an heads up to any junior reading this blog - the final sem project is more than what it seems. At times you might feel over whelmed with whats been asked from you all of a sudden. You might crib for not having the perfect project, perfect skillet or the perfect team but I guess thats what makes it so interesting. After all life isn't perfect but one has to learn to deal with it. I guess the project in some essence helps you prepare for the extra ordinary life outside the campus. If anyone claims to have h

ad a breeze through the project they are probably lying. I am reminded of what Stephen Hawking says, " Life and universe exist because nothing is perfect" - indeed a huge revelation to me. Fortunately, I have been blessed with the perfect project, near perfect skill set and perfect team! ;) We presented our project infront of a panel yesterday and received great response which is certainly motivational. Few others are even skeptical whether we can pull it off! We'll show them.. :)

Been having lot of fun lately, since i have been working on things a like and taking things slowly, YEP! I growing old, darn it! I guess my happiness will be short lived as boot strap season is upon me!

Proposed Infosys Campus In Kuwait.

Oh i almost forgot, I am one amongst 260 students who were selected by Infosys on day 1 of campus placements. It was pretty memorable 2 day event. On the first day we had a written test and on the second an interview. Truck load of HR's descended to grill students or so i thought. My interview lasted 3 minutes, 60 year old man asked me 7 questions all of which were on Football! After waiting the whole day in kickass formals, we got to know the results. Surprisingly enough, I still don't know how i feel about this! I guess when one has options one can underestimate how lucky one is! But only time will tell.

Thats a picture of me on my family farmland in AP. I had recently been to AP to attend paternal uncle's marriage and also pay a visit maternal uncle who unfortunately suffered major heart ailment. Fortunately, he is on speedy recovery.

I am really looking forward to the last semester and experiences it has to offer. I would promise to post more often, but somehow i feel the last semester might not be that generous and allow me live up to that promise. Sorry, Furture Avi! I know you want to read more about your engineering experience from this pensive of your 21 year old self. I shall certainly try my best! :) Now to watch the season 6 and episode 15 of How i met your mother.

A more aggresive, impatient and frenzy world!

Alas, The good ol' days are gone! The world has become obsessed about information, speed of delivery and efficiency by multitasking! I am starting to observe the first signs of stress and i really wish i do not burnout in this new impatient world. I miss my younger, more cheerful self! Reading back a couple of post reminiscing about how i had everything figured and the world made a lot more sense! (since i knew very little about it!) Made me want to catalogue my thoughts to preserve a small glimpse of myself at this juncture in life. Being a technology student i should be happy so see such prosperity in the field of technology however, i feel that this boom has started a negative spiral in the human society. Gone are the days, where you could while away your time sitting on the front porch or in the beautiful gardens of DSCE campus and talk to friends about irrelevant topics. Today, its all about sending emails, carrying work home, working through smart phones and laptops, having conference calls and tagging people on facebook! Digital life is very superficial! I think as people grow old the only reason they become more "mature" ( more boring to be precise ) is that they learn about processes and rules and that's where they start trying to fit i n and do what is the norm of the society. I am exhausted with all of it and am in dire need of a vacation.

I think the reason for the stress is due to the fact that for once i haven bitten more than i can chew. My headed has been polluted with career options, projects and constant bombardment of new information that the world is producing and streaming right infront to me. I have also registered for management exams of all acronyms possible (Probably my first mistake), on top of that i have no clue about Java and C# which are bread & butter subjects for computer Science Engineers. Well, you might say that the solution is pretty easy and you are partly right. Both of these can be solved if I spent some time in preparing for them. I hope what i say next will not lead you to judge me in anyway! But the real culprit is "Time" or gather the lack my skills to manage it well during this semester.

The semester too started off on a bad note with the CampusUnify project, which i was working on with my friends, hadn't reached its deployment stage as planned. There was a lot of activity and development but unfortunately the product itself hasn't yet seen the light of day! Its currently on hold and will probably be restarting it in jan. However there were a few bright and happy moments during the semester which i would like to highlight, for instance i had played host for the inaugural event of Coffee with CEO where we had invited Suhas Gopinath( Youngest Entrepreneur in the world ) and quiety recently, i won a paper presentation competition. I presented a paper on "CrowdComputing using SocialCredits" where i talked about how to create a cloud application which can leverage the new social fabric of internet (using facebook or google id) to provide new employment opportunities. What sought of applications, where to deploy and how to reward was what my paper talked about. It was a research paper which gave a an interesting observations about business process outsourcing will evolve over the internet by 2020. Fortunately, judges loved it and we were rewarded. I must acknowledge the contributions made Apoorva, who basically took care of the report writing and format. Its a great working alongside with her! The work just fell into place, intuitively we knew our responsibilities and executed it timely.

I have my TOEFL exam due in a week and GMAT due on Dec 2nd. Will let you know how my experience was and maybe even the scores as well provided they are worthy being published! :)
To how ever is reading this.. Cheers and have great day!

Yet Another Milestone to Write about!

6th sem coming to an end! 3rd year of engineering coming to an end! :)

Today was my graphics lab exam and i passed with flying colors! The program posed no challenge and neither did the project viva. The evaluator who turned to be a female lecturer from BNMIT (Probably from Andhra Pradesh) was extremely pleased with the work that we put into the project. She also recognised that it was homemade and not taken from the internet which was very satisfying.

The program which i had got for my Lab exam was to create what you see in the below image.



The below Diagram shows you my Graphics project. Its an interactive room where you can switch on and off the fans, tv and even lamp. When you switch off the lamp you will be able to enjoy the moon light coming from the window.

TITLE SCREEN


ENTERING ROOM.


So My internals marks for 6th semester totalled to 197/200 and now i am pretty sure i have scored 45+/50 in Graphics lab. Up next is System Software lab which will be held on Monday 1st june 2010.


Another thing i am very excited about is the StartUp City event, which i will be attending on this Saturday! I hope will help spark new ideas since i am currently running dry on inspiration. :)

The 6th semester has been pretty hectic thanks to challenging subjects as well the college work which i took responsibility of. I have failed to mention one of my greatest achievements as a webdesigner happened this semester! I had the oppurtunity to create a website dedicated to our department which was extremely well recieved for the amazing intuitive design,collaborative tools and tons of the other useful features like forum, News Reel, Download Section etc. I am very proud of the work. Though i was little apprehensive of commiting to it initially, it proved to be a good learning experience as well as something that was so right to do. I feel like i have left a legacy in my institute which is absolutely fantastic!


I have also started thinking about setting up a company during the summer. So far i have built a team of 10, yet i feel the team does lack skill, experience but i guess startups are always built this way. I hope this Saturday i will learn more solutions to the problems that i am facing especially in the relm of organisational Structuring and figuring out the product packages! :)

Here is the first draft of the logo for the company.

That triangle is actually an impossible triangle. Its impossible because all the corners are at 90 degrees with each other. Its called a Penrose triangle.

"Simplest depiction of the impossible in real life"

Memorable Class trip to GOA

The whole event was cataloged by Bharat on his cell phone! Wrote round about 150 lines on his tiny cell! I thought his version would be a pretty acurate enough since it was done live! :) So hope your enjoy the read.


We started around 10pm from college on thursday.The journey was amazing.Had lots of fun in the bus,we were dancing,singing,stopping near every shop on da way in the night,for eating.Avinash almost killed me,while sleeping beside me.Took a room in mureleshwar and had bath.Then went 2 shiva temple,had free lunch there itself.The staue of LORD SHIVA was huge and beautiful.After that, went around the temple and took some pics.After that tuk a choco bar and got into the bus.I almost felt like heaven when i came into bus from boiling temperature outside.Then we started 2 ankola.On the way ,me and avinash couldn't control our sleep,while others were singing songs.We got down at preteesh's house.Had some snacks in his house.Some people had fun in his house.Next,went to beach in ankola,it was the most romantic and beautiful beach i ever saw.The nature's beauty was at its best.If u ever want 2 propose your valentine this will be an option for you.Some interesting things happened here.Avinash lost his sunglasses while playin in water, and some1 robbed his undy,main suspect being anush.Subhashini's cam fel in water,as f now not sure its workin or not.Most of our clothes got wet,even though we placed them at sufficient distance 4m sea,thank god mine were safe.At the end preetesh lost 1 f his sandal.Then he threw the 2nd one also into the beach.We seriously had a gr8 time here,but the most irritating part was durin changin our clothes,each part of our body was itchin with sand.Then had some omlets and boiled eggs in Ankola itself and then started 2 karwar.We got a decent lodge in karwar.I Had dinner outside in a beach side hotel with only ma best buddies(Anush,Avinash,Pavan),while others had in the lodge where we stayed,since they were not ready to come out.



Here is the photo album!

GOA TRIP 27 March 2010

5th sem results announced! Less than Satifactory.

Hey guys! A quick post. My 5th sem results were announced today. Secured 70 percent to the dot and scraped a FCD ( First Class with Distinction ). Though the results have brought a huge relief, as i cleared all my subjects. There was a lot of rumors running around about ludicrous Pass percentages for some subjects and that certain papers were misplaced.

Feeling very feverish. Lets hope, i get well soon by tom morning. Goodnight.

Registered for my first blogger meet!

Its a "Kingfisher IndiBlogger" which will be held in Indranagar! Way far way for guys from South. But i guess the incentive to meet Pro Bloggers and added to that Kingfisher is also sponsoring Beer! I know i being a wuss, but i hope they have drink options for Non alcoholics as well :).

Things is college are happening full throttle. There has been a sea of change in the attitude and method of teaching this year. Good practices are being adopted, lets hope the end results is great as well. I even heard that Dayananda Sagar featured 17th best college in India in one the Magazine ratings. Though these positions are bought, it nice to see DSI wanting to be at the top so badly. This attitude to be first will indirectly help us in some way or the other.

I am currently working on the first edition of the "Concept Papers" that we are launching this semesters under the name " THE PARADIGM ". Will be putting up more pics of it soon.

Well, hopefully will have something more ground breaking soon! :) All iz well so far.