I have always been modest in my dreams except possibly when I wished for a seat in this prestigious Computer Science Department of NITC. When I look back , the fact that I could achieve almost all of my dreams , is something which surprises me .I cant figure out at least one , which I had to compromise with.
So this gives me the courage to dream bigger.So here I goes...I am just penning it down, without any details, since my sessionals starts tomorrow..
I dream of a day when I could establish 14 hospitals across Kerala , 1 in each district. I dream of a day when I could establish 14 schools across Kerala , 1 each district .And all of them will be in the name of my sweet loving mother.
Signing off
RK
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Bravo !!!!!! I have found him out...
This post is in continuation with my earlier post An ideal proffessor
He has all the qualities attributted there except that he takes attendance.So we are forced to attend his class..But he comes to the class quite rarely..He speaks quite rarely..Even if he speeks, not more that 2 people (who sits right under his nose),can hear. He shows the slides faster than what would have been in an automatic slideshow- and as a result 40-50 slides per chapter gets covered in 5 to 8 minutes. Then comes the attendance, that roughly takes about 15 to 20 minutes.Altogether the class finishes in 30 minutes.And we are all left to our own world of freedom.And all this happens in this prestigious institute of National Institute of Technology.
True to my heart , I should say that I would have loved him had he not put a test
which contained the following questions.(Test had 5% weight age)
1.A computer system has _____________ parts.
a)2 b)3 c)4 d)5
2._________ and______________ are....(I forgot the remaining part.But it is irrelevant.See the options)
a)Synchronous b)Asynchronous c)Both d)None
Signing off
RK
He has all the qualities attributted there except that he takes attendance.So we are forced to attend his class..But he comes to the class quite rarely..He speaks quite rarely..Even if he speeks, not more that 2 people (who sits right under his nose),can hear. He shows the slides faster than what would have been in an automatic slideshow- and as a result 40-50 slides per chapter gets covered in 5 to 8 minutes. Then comes the attendance, that roughly takes about 15 to 20 minutes.Altogether the class finishes in 30 minutes.And we are all left to our own world of freedom.And all this happens in this prestigious institute of National Institute of Technology.
True to my heart , I should say that I would have loved him had he not put a test
which contained the following questions.(Test had 5% weight age)
1.A computer system has _____________ parts.
a)2 b)3 c)4 d)5
2._________ and______________ are....(I forgot the remaining part.But it is irrelevant.See the options)
a)Synchronous b)Asynchronous c)Both d)None
Signing off
RK
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Chill down plz.........
Its 3 am in the morning now. I am not feeling sleepy and hence thought of writing something. I don't have any topic at hand..so its will be quite blah blah blah.
I just have an advice for myself, don't over work.
The last one semester was really hectic. Bulls and bears absorbed nearly 100% of my free time. I remember that I was in hostel even during the onam holidays ,coding the software for it. The fact that event had to be called off in the previous edition was in fact increasing the pressure. I remember the sleepless nights I had,thinking about how to make it better. It was a constant struggle for perfection and a lot of effort had been put in its design.
Added to it was the hectic compiler lab. When looking back , the lab was not that difficult. But a lot of misconceptions lead to mere waste of time.
Programming is really an art. But one has to really master it so as to enjoy it.Perhaps this was the first lab which introduced me to real programming.
And along with that, my inexperience in C really coasted me a lot of time in the Networks lab. I remeber wasting hours so as to debug silly mistakes.
Then came the Tathva. The registration software was again under my responsibility. The people who were assigned the task of developing it really messed the things . It required two consecutive night outs before Tathva to get the things working.
Altogether I was left with no time. And as a result I failed quite miserably in the sessionals.So it was a hard end sem . I remember that I studied for more than six hours on the days before the exam.That was highly unprecedented in my life.
I should confess that I had my results. An SGPA of 8.2 was highly unexpected, courtesy Relative Grading.But I strongly feel that I heavily over worked in the last one sem . Even the vacation was worser with the work of mail server. I remember it was a 20 hours work on those days. It clearly have drained me out.
All these had presented me with sleepless nights and my biological clock has got changed irreversibly.Now I am finding it extremely hard to fall into sleep during night.Along with a lot of personal satisfaction this is the cost that I had to pay for doing two works which were really beyond me.
Signing Off
RK
I just have an advice for myself, don't over work.
The last one semester was really hectic. Bulls and bears absorbed nearly 100% of my free time. I remember that I was in hostel even during the onam holidays ,coding the software for it. The fact that event had to be called off in the previous edition was in fact increasing the pressure. I remember the sleepless nights I had,thinking about how to make it better. It was a constant struggle for perfection and a lot of effort had been put in its design.
Added to it was the hectic compiler lab. When looking back , the lab was not that difficult. But a lot of misconceptions lead to mere waste of time.
Programming is really an art. But one has to really master it so as to enjoy it.Perhaps this was the first lab which introduced me to real programming.
And along with that, my inexperience in C really coasted me a lot of time in the Networks lab. I remeber wasting hours so as to debug silly mistakes.
Then came the Tathva. The registration software was again under my responsibility. The people who were assigned the task of developing it really messed the things . It required two consecutive night outs before Tathva to get the things working.
Altogether I was left with no time. And as a result I failed quite miserably in the sessionals.So it was a hard end sem . I remember that I studied for more than six hours on the days before the exam.That was highly unprecedented in my life.
I should confess that I had my results. An SGPA of 8.2 was highly unexpected, courtesy Relative Grading.But I strongly feel that I heavily over worked in the last one sem . Even the vacation was worser with the work of mail server. I remember it was a 20 hours work on those days. It clearly have drained me out.
All these had presented me with sleepless nights and my biological clock has got changed irreversibly.Now I am finding it extremely hard to fall into sleep during night.Along with a lot of personal satisfaction this is the cost that I had to pay for doing two works which were really beyond me.
Signing Off
RK
Friday, January 23, 2009
Attendance
Well,its the same mundane topic.Attendance!
I hate going to the classes and listening to the "------- " that are uttered.
Should attendance be made mandatory ? Clearly the answer is No. And here are my reasonings........
1) The Attendance rules are made by desperate professors who fear, that there wont be any students in the class once the rules are waived. So thats an act of cowardice. Well, I simply feel pity on them. There are quite a handful of them in our colleges and their numbers are increasing.Its a social cancer which needs urgent treatment. I have found quite a few professors in my life who have the courage to say that he/she would not be taking attendance.
2) After all , I am 21 years old. I had been undergoing the so called "Education" for the last 16+ years. So I am a veteran as a student. And any one with so much of experience will be able to learn by oneself. Thinking otherwise is really an underestimation of the capability of the student community.
3)Learning is an art and it should be an enjoyable experience with enough freedom to experiment. I have spent nearly 99% of my class timings for day dreaming. So all the experiments where done on the topic :"dreaming".
4)There are a few number of lecturers who do not even have the right to step into a college campus. Asking the brilliant and vibrant minds of the country to listen to such foolish "idio.." is worser than killing them.Its a personal waste, a social waste and a national waste.
After having made so much of allegations, I wish to look into it from a neutral point.
As far as I am concerned, perhaps the only purpose of a lecture hour is to give an introduction to the topic.The introduction should initiate the spark needed for further studies.It may give an overview of the subject, so that when one start to read the topics on his own,he is ensured that he will have a smooth flow.Reading something , after having listened to its class , reduces the effort considerably.It gives him more time to think deeper into the subject rather than wasting time to understand the basic concepts. Clearly , that is what expected from an lecture hour.
But unfortunately ,not many knows this fundamental rule of teaching.And hence learning has become a routine process before the exams, purely aimed at getting grades. I simply feel sorry for myself and for the student communities of the present, past and future generations.
" A cigarette shortens your life by 1 minute, alcohol shortens your life by 10 minutes but a lecture shortens your life by 1 hour. ". Well, its a nude truth.So start bunking your classes if you don't want to lose any more .
Signing off
RK
I hate going to the classes and listening to the "------- " that are uttered.
Should attendance be made mandatory ? Clearly the answer is No. And here are my reasonings........
1) The Attendance rules are made by desperate professors who fear, that there wont be any students in the class once the rules are waived. So thats an act of cowardice. Well, I simply feel pity on them. There are quite a handful of them in our colleges and their numbers are increasing.Its a social cancer which needs urgent treatment. I have found quite a few professors in my life who have the courage to say that he/she would not be taking attendance.
2) After all , I am 21 years old. I had been undergoing the so called "Education" for the last 16+ years. So I am a veteran as a student. And any one with so much of experience will be able to learn by oneself. Thinking otherwise is really an underestimation of the capability of the student community.
3)Learning is an art and it should be an enjoyable experience with enough freedom to experiment. I have spent nearly 99% of my class timings for day dreaming. So all the experiments where done on the topic :"dreaming".
4)There are a few number of lecturers who do not even have the right to step into a college campus. Asking the brilliant and vibrant minds of the country to listen to such foolish "idio.." is worser than killing them.Its a personal waste, a social waste and a national waste.
After having made so much of allegations, I wish to look into it from a neutral point.
As far as I am concerned, perhaps the only purpose of a lecture hour is to give an introduction to the topic.The introduction should initiate the spark needed for further studies.It may give an overview of the subject, so that when one start to read the topics on his own,he is ensured that he will have a smooth flow.Reading something , after having listened to its class , reduces the effort considerably.It gives him more time to think deeper into the subject rather than wasting time to understand the basic concepts. Clearly , that is what expected from an lecture hour.
But unfortunately ,not many knows this fundamental rule of teaching.And hence learning has become a routine process before the exams, purely aimed at getting grades. I simply feel sorry for myself and for the student communities of the present, past and future generations.
" A cigarette shortens your life by 1 minute, alcohol shortens your life by 10 minutes but a lecture shortens your life by 1 hour. ". Well, its a nude truth.So start bunking your classes if you don't want to lose any more .
Signing off
RK
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
So that was a happy ending..
The mail server work is almost complete..And I don't have words to express my relief..Thanks to Sumesh Sir for entrusting us this work..Thanks to his company
through out the period..He is such a wonderful person .
Its the attitude that differentiate people..and I have not seen another person here with better attitude and dedication . He could have sit idle in his position as the faculty in charge of CNC. But he did many things here, the most important of which is the internet connectivity in hostels.Had that not occurred , 'Bulls and Bears ' would have been a tragic episode.And for that single reason, I owe a lot to him.
It was really an exciting period.I got to work with plate servers, for the first time in life. I had a glimpse of the wonderful world of open source technologies. It certainly charged up my entrepreneur spirits .. Certailny I can see the gaps in the demand and supply chain in the IT field which are too small for established companies to fill, but which is more than enough for a young chap like me who just want to make a living.So thank you sir, for presenting something which may eventually be termed as career defining moments.
Signing off
RK
through out the period..He is such a wonderful person .
Its the attitude that differentiate people..and I have not seen another person here with better attitude and dedication . He could have sit idle in his position as the faculty in charge of CNC. But he did many things here, the most important of which is the internet connectivity in hostels.Had that not occurred , 'Bulls and Bears ' would have been a tragic episode.And for that single reason, I owe a lot to him.
It was really an exciting period.I got to work with plate servers, for the first time in life. I had a glimpse of the wonderful world of open source technologies. It certainly charged up my entrepreneur spirits .. Certailny I can see the gaps in the demand and supply chain in the IT field which are too small for established companies to fill, but which is more than enough for a young chap like me who just want to make a living.So thank you sir, for presenting something which may eventually be termed as career defining moments.
Signing off
RK
Monday, January 12, 2009
The great slokha from Bhagavad Gita
"No matter what conditions you encounter in life, your right is only to the works--not to the fruits thereof. You should not be impelled to act for selfish reasons, nor should you be attached to inaction."
Its the one that starts with "Karmanye Vaadikarasthe...", something which I had posted before.But now only I found out a perfect translation.RK
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Happy New Year
This blog post has got some peculiarity...Nothing special.Only that i have ventured to type it in vi.An extremely powerful editor , they say.
I havent written anything after the start of the 6th sem.First two weeks have passed.The pending works of the mail server had kept me occupied these
days.But I should say that everything have gone fine.And I am happy and to a certain extend proud to be a part of it..
I still have in my mind the day I sat at Arybhatta , hoping to get a seat in the CSE department of this prestigious Institute.I still have in my mind ,the sleepless night before the counselling.The moment when Suresh Babu sir called my name as the last one in the list of students inducted to the CSE Btech Batch, the Sayanapradhakshinam at Guruvayoor,then the first class by Dr. G U Unnikrishnan,the day I met my present room mate Kishore (National Second Rank holder in 10 CBSE Board Exams),the day I came out of the drawing hall after completing the drawing end sem,the day the first sem results were out,the second sem when I had the sleep of my life everything is crystal clear in my mind. It was a struggle for existence in the first sem . I always had in my mind that I was not made for NIT,but now I should say that I have every reason to be happy..I dont mind the placement that I may get after this sem,I am not at all worried abt the grades that I may have while I step out of the college ..I should say that i am enjoying each and every bit of this college life.
So thats the end of my first typing endeavor in vi.First impression:- Its not bad..Check it out if u havent done so.Bye
RK.
I havent written anything after the start of the 6th sem.First two weeks have passed.The pending works of the mail server had kept me occupied these
days.But I should say that everything have gone fine.And I am happy and to a certain extend proud to be a part of it..
I still have in my mind the day I sat at Arybhatta , hoping to get a seat in the CSE department of this prestigious Institute.I still have in my mind ,the sleepless night before the counselling.The moment when Suresh Babu sir called my name as the last one in the list of students inducted to the CSE Btech Batch, the Sayanapradhakshinam at Guruvayoor,then the first class by Dr. G U Unnikrishnan,the day I met my present room mate Kishore (National Second Rank holder in 10 CBSE Board Exams),the day I came out of the drawing hall after completing the drawing end sem,the day the first sem results were out,the second sem when I had the sleep of my life everything is crystal clear in my mind. It was a struggle for existence in the first sem . I always had in my mind that I was not made for NIT,but now I should say that I have every reason to be happy..I dont mind the placement that I may get after this sem,I am not at all worried abt the grades that I may have while I step out of the college ..I should say that i am enjoying each and every bit of this college life.
So thats the end of my first typing endeavor in vi.First impression:- Its not bad..Check it out if u havent done so.Bye
RK.
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