Happy Birthday IIIT

After reading Maroo's post I too have decided to join the bandwagon of writing a b'day post for IIIT. In 2004, foundation day was celebrated properly. Sadly there isn't much hulla this year. I would usually write what we should do and look forward to and some more pranav-ish blah, but I'm deciding against it :) Somebody recently asked by somebody to give me the highlight of each year I spent at IIIT. I think it's a wonderful thing to do.

The best thing from my UG1 days would definitely be all the hell raisin that was done in GHEB. GHEB was a unique hostel. Imagine a completely isolated building with only ug1 guys :) The awesome part was the birthdays. Birthdays starting on one floor would eventually spread to all three floors and end with pepsi/mirinda and cake all over the place. It was the purest chaos I have experienced. Highlight: Birthdays in GHEB

For me second year was about football. I became part of the college team and our batch officially went football crazy. The year ended with an amazing come from behind win against UG2k3 where we came back from 2 goals down to win 3-2. Highlight : Inter-batch football finals

Third year did not start well at all, but we eventually started to get over it. The first half of the year spent frequenting Ohri's for midnight biriyani and also included a certain record 19 slices at the pizza hut iftar meal :O Then came felicity and lots of work. Highlight : Making an amazing new Felicity

My fourth year was not a usual one. I spent more than half of the year in Bangalore doing an intern. I loved the excitement that placements generated but only because i didn't have to sit for them :P . Every day we used to have a bunch of people coming back with big smiles on their faces knowing they now had jobs. I also got a job this year. I became a Sysadmin. It's a job that perhaps entails only abuse from other people but I found it to be an awesome challenge. Highlight : Seeing all my friends getting placed and kicking them in the aftermath :D

My fifth year was all hard work. I got my first publications. And the best thing for me this year has been the why I've been able to run every morning and play. I've managed to lost quite a bit of weight actually (I know it's a drop in the ocean....) Highlight : Writing papers with 3 people from 3 different areas and being the glue that keeps it all together.

This might be over-nostalgic, but it's a neat exercise. I tag SKP, ORB, mythalez, Sultan of Samarkand, @nks, Daka, Turbo, Raina, Bordeaux, Aniket, Maroo, Himank, Zenwalker and Bitgeek to all write similar posts. Some of you could really do with a post :P

Rats

Yes Rats.... They chewed up the link between the NBH-GH and the rest of IIIT. 

PS1. At times working in the server room is a real education as to the flexibility of the protocols of TCP/IP and the amount of abuse cisco hardware can take.

PS2. I am happy ganguly and dravid managed to get some runs.

PS3. After a long time(6~7 years) I played four continuous days of badminton. It felt good.

PS4. I saw kulbir saini's cam. The auto click(when you smile) thing either doesn't work or I don't have a happy enough smile :(

ps5. Played far cry all over again. Not in the mood for "research" these days.

ps6. My gfx card(7800gtx) is totally and utterly useless. I need a new machine. Donations please :)

ps7. I think most of your batchmates leaving makes for a very lonely and boring existance. I think the life in the OBH is kinda dull these days. No longer see people out in the corridors BC'ing. 

PS8. Somebody download some good series .............

Amitabh Bachchan's blog

Yes I wrote a post! After almost a year in hibernation I wrote a post! And what drove me to write about it?? Amitabh Bachchan. I was going through his blog. It's more like a press release web-site rather then a blog. But when you are Amitabh Bachchan you can do pretty much whatever you want :)

For the un-informed I am in bangalore interning at RSA Data Security! (That's why you don't see me in campus...mystery solved!) It's a nice place to work. Will write about it in some future post.

Found out today that, pretty sadly two of the brightest students of our batch are passing over the chance to study at Stanford and Colombia respectively because of a lack of funding. That suks big time. For all those alumni out in the industry earning big bucks: Considering all the college has given would you like this to happen? and are you sure you can't do anything about it?

Congratulations to the following people

Shashank J - IIM Ahmedabad
Joy Bhakat - IIM Calcutta
Samba(sreekanth p) - IIM Calcutta
Abhay Kesharwani - IIM Calcutta
Arjun A.V. - IIM Calcutta
Ranjai banerjee - IIM Lucknow

donno about anybody else sorry if I left you out :)