On a Sunday

     At last, fed up of my procrastination to start my personal blog, I have finally managed to put myself in front of it’s post editor. I did a lot of noise and nuisance to my friends while selecting a domain name for this blog. This is before (more than) 12 months ago.
Just a day before one of my friend remembered that and asked, “what are you doing with it?”.
I was organizing my words to answer that question while another blurted out, “The home page is ready. You can check out the lonely blog.”
I kept my mouth shut, for I believe in action than words (or so I think at least).
To tell you the truth, I was waiting for a big day to inaugurate my blog but, that day never came.
I initially thought of posting the 1st post on my birth day but, the day got over before I could close my facebook page and keep my cellphone away from me. Then I prepared for The New year. The day came and passed before I could think of something to write. So I decided, ‘before the week ends, there would be a post in my blog’. Any day can be a big day. So why not a Sunday? Hence the title.
Hopefully I will be able to stick to my Sunday regime. So that my blog doesn’t feel so lonely. See you soon.

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Moving ahead with my final semester project

Finally I have made it to the last semester. When for the 1st time I saw the syllabus for my four semester course, I always wanted to be in the last semester. The obvious reason is, we don’t have to attend a single lecture this semester, because there are none 😊. We still have to complete a project in the due time though. The syllabus mentions it as dissertation, but I like the name project. It sounds less bombastic and comfortable.
We are said to form a group of maximum two members and submit the topic for project for approval by the committee. I found forming the group is rather easy than selecting a topic (not all my batch mates ’ll agree with me though). After banging our head to search for an excellent topic, we finally realized it’s not our job. Why there are teachers after all? But again we took too much time to realize this. Up to the date of our scheduled meeting we hadn’t any fixed project idea in mind. We had asked all of our teachers for a suggestion (but all we needed was a concrete project topic 😉 ) with no luck. All have advised us to read journals, papers, books then search then read and continue till we find a topic of our interest(or give up, they haven’t said it though). Now this is called luck. Just before the meeting we again met one of our teacher and she said, ‘you can consider this’ before leaving for the meeting. I could just read the topic before we reached the meeting and guess what, we’re called first. We told the panel the topic we had a few minutes ago and it was accepted. They just asked us to present a detailed synopsis in a few days. Many of the project ideas are rejected after us. That day my belief on luck got another example to fight my reasoning brain.
The topic that got selected was “Design and comparative analysis of time stamp based packet scheduling algorithm”. Pretty long huh……Before the final meeting we made the topic a bit shorter by removing the first two words, for we(our teachers too) knew those words can create problems afterwards. The final topic was “Comparative analysis of timestamp based packet scheduling algorithm”. The synopsis was presented by my partner Gaurav alone, for I was then enjoying my holidays at home 😄 .

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