It has been more than a week since I left BITS!
Just wanted to pen a quick post about well.. the title of this post :)
1) Eating random food and random times of the day (and night) Example: Mangoes @ 2AM
2) Walking alone in the dark going where your feet take you
3) Meals in the mess (not the food, the company)
4) 100 Mbps download of the latest TV episodes and Music
5) DC AdminChat
6) Pizzas, Burgers etc. @ Monginis and Iced Tea, Maggi (esp. post-Computer Graphics) @ Nescafe
7) Chat and Pav Bhaji at Miramar with BMD Sir and Bedekar Sir
8) Knowing that a friend was always just a door-knock away
9) Always finding people to listen to my random observations and comments
10) Knowing that there would be one more day at BITS
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
BITS - The Last Day (Part 3)
The last in a three part post is finally here! I'm sure all my juniors are cursing me by now...
Sorry, but I've been kinda putting off writing the last one coz then it'll all be over for good, if you know what I mean. Anyway, my pre-new-year-resolution is to finish this last post before the New Year begins, so here I go.....
First of all, it has been kind of unfortunate that I did not get to interact with most of the 2009 batch. If anyone, I'm to blame... I have been kind of 'underground' this last semester, mostly due to my laziness, the dearth of classes to attend, the almost non-existential placement interviews, the lack of an assistantship (or the lack of interest therein owing to other aims) and absolutely no administrative responsibility.
Please note that the list of names the follow or in any of the previous posts are in no particular order. I just put them down as they came to the forefront in my mind...
I have written DC Nicks for juniors whose names I do not know... and I have no way of mentioning the countless juniors I have known by face but I cannot recall their names right now... Add me on Google Talk people!!!
I would like to express my gratitude to...
Rasagy Sharma for being my fellow BITSian contestant and a winner in CSI IT Idol of Goa Competition
Vineet Dhanawat for running TITAN last year and keeping me an Admin (although I had practically no active contribution to the hub (to be read 'new downloads'))
Macbook for the same this year
Purvali Chaudhari for being a fellow TITAN Admin (one of the few whom I could chat with in Marathi without other Admins understanding a word!)
Adya Jha for being an amazing dancer
Abhijith Reddy for keeping the passion for coding alive in me by frequently informing me of upcoming Codejams
J C Keerthan for running the Gnome Hub
Amit Sarangi for the awesome new mail server
Kusum Kumar for administrating the CSD
Chetan Bansal for being one of the quickest web developers I have come across
Ajax, L!e for being DC AdminChat buddies
OPHIDIAN for her ('her' right?) well categorized and large DC share
SiriusWallace for keeping his share updated with the latest TV series
This basically sums up everything I want to say...
Goodbye all!
Have a good life!!
and Goodbye BITS!!!
Sorry, but I've been kinda putting off writing the last one coz then it'll all be over for good, if you know what I mean. Anyway, my pre-new-year-resolution is to finish this last post before the New Year begins, so here I go.....
First of all, it has been kind of unfortunate that I did not get to interact with most of the 2009 batch. If anyone, I'm to blame... I have been kind of 'underground' this last semester, mostly due to my laziness, the dearth of classes to attend, the almost non-existential placement interviews, the lack of an assistantship (or the lack of interest therein owing to other aims) and absolutely no administrative responsibility.
Please note that the list of names the follow or in any of the previous posts are in no particular order. I just put them down as they came to the forefront in my mind...
I have written DC Nicks for juniors whose names I do not know... and I have no way of mentioning the countless juniors I have known by face but I cannot recall their names right now... Add me on Google Talk people!!!
I would like to express my gratitude to...
Rasagy Sharma for being my fellow BITSian contestant and a winner in CSI IT Idol of Goa Competition
Vineet Dhanawat for running TITAN last year and keeping me an Admin (although I had practically no active contribution to the hub (to be read 'new downloads'))
Macbook for the same this year
Purvali Chaudhari for being a fellow TITAN Admin (one of the few whom I could chat with in Marathi without other Admins understanding a word!)
Adya Jha for being an amazing dancer
Abhijith Reddy for keeping the passion for coding alive in me by frequently informing me of upcoming Codejams
J C Keerthan for running the Gnome Hub
Amit Sarangi for the awesome new mail server
Kusum Kumar for administrating the CSD
Chetan Bansal for being one of the quickest web developers I have come across
Ajax, L!e for being DC AdminChat buddies
OPHIDIAN for her ('her' right?) well categorized and large DC share
SiriusWallace for keeping his share updated with the latest TV series
This basically sums up everything I want to say...
Goodbye all!
Have a good life!!
and Goodbye BITS!!!
Monday, December 21, 2009
BITS - The Last Day (Part 2)
Back in Mumbai!
It's a refreshing change to see "Restaurant and Bar" rather than "Bar and Restaurant" here :)
Anyway, back to the list...
Thank you,
Akella Krishna Mahesh for being a sincere and honest friend
KSV Rajesh for always having a cheerful countenance
Avanti Kshirsagar for... well... just for the sake of it :)
Arup Mandal for always revising concepts with me only a few hours before the exams
Indroop Singh for being a die-hard DOTA fan
Abhimanyu Vatsya for recovering data from my Mac when it was not working
Abhinav Asthana for being one of the BITS360 developers
Sakshi Verma for congratulating me when I topped the MuP course
Mohit Verma for running Linux off a pendrive for a semester
Sambhav Galada for always being his cheerful self
Ankit Nassa for returning my TT ball (on the last day) I had completely forgotten about
Lokendra Singh for being the unnoticed-but-smart one
Achal Mall for being an Anime fan!
Shardul Lavekar for being the best mime actor I have seen
Sivasankar for not pulling one of his impostor pranks on me :P
Abhay Patil for his strange but funny use of the Marathi language
Dhruv for being a person with a Mac before me
Arvind Krishnan and his PC for consuming more electricity than 5 hostel rooms put together
My seniors,
Aalap Tripathy for asking me if I do not trust the hostel room allotment software on the first day of BITS
Roshan Sumbaly for considering me worthy enough to be a part of the GridOne project
Nimit Mehra for personally answering all my queries about BPGC
Hari Sudan for setting up the first LDAP server in campus
Madhan Darwin for being a great team leader in our Cypress project
Abhishek Kumar for mentoring me while writing Natasha
Shubham Malhotra for his weird DC chatting style
Gaurav Paruthi for being one of the founders of the phenomenon called DC
Angad Singh Gill for his admirable photography skills
Meet Singh for being the most dedicated RJ on campus
Rohan Pillai for competing with me to be the worst ever RJ
Rohan Gandhi for being an electronics guru
Vishrut Shukla for being the coolest person I've met
Ankit Govil for his managerial skills
Bharath R. for being the coder I look up to
Vivek Premkumar for his well organised DC share
Rajesh Bhasin for helping me write my SOP (and making fun of it too!)
Mohammad Kazi for giving me an idea about the life of a Grad student
Jyoti A R for being VictoireWeasley and for getting a PS in New York!!!
Ganesh Vernekar for his easy-go-lucky attitude
Siddharth Agrawal for his..... well.... DC share (ahem!)
The entire bitzone.tk team for helping us with the admissions process
And the countless other seniors who helped me through these three and a half years, selling books at throw-away prices, offering valuable advice every step along the way and just being there!
To be continued...
It's a refreshing change to see "Restaurant and Bar" rather than "Bar and Restaurant" here :)
Anyway, back to the list...
Thank you,
Akella Krishna Mahesh for being a sincere and honest friend
KSV Rajesh for always having a cheerful countenance
Avanti Kshirsagar for... well... just for the sake of it :)
Arup Mandal for always revising concepts with me only a few hours before the exams
Indroop Singh for being a die-hard DOTA fan
Abhimanyu Vatsya for recovering data from my Mac when it was not working
Abhinav Asthana for being one of the BITS360 developers
Sakshi Verma for congratulating me when I topped the MuP course
Mohit Verma for running Linux off a pendrive for a semester
Sambhav Galada for always being his cheerful self
Ankit Nassa for returning my TT ball (on the last day) I had completely forgotten about
Lokendra Singh for being the unnoticed-but-smart one
Achal Mall for being an Anime fan!
Shardul Lavekar for being the best mime actor I have seen
Sivasankar for not pulling one of his impostor pranks on me :P
Abhay Patil for his strange but funny use of the Marathi language
Dhruv for being a person with a Mac before me
Arvind Krishnan and his PC for consuming more electricity than 5 hostel rooms put together
My seniors,
Aalap Tripathy for asking me if I do not trust the hostel room allotment software on the first day of BITS
Roshan Sumbaly for considering me worthy enough to be a part of the GridOne project
Nimit Mehra for personally answering all my queries about BPGC
Hari Sudan for setting up the first LDAP server in campus
Madhan Darwin for being a great team leader in our Cypress project
Abhishek Kumar for mentoring me while writing Natasha
Shubham Malhotra for his weird DC chatting style
Gaurav Paruthi for being one of the founders of the phenomenon called DC
Angad Singh Gill for his admirable photography skills
Meet Singh for being the most dedicated RJ on campus
Rohan Pillai for competing with me to be the worst ever RJ
Rohan Gandhi for being an electronics guru
Vishrut Shukla for being the coolest person I've met
Ankit Govil for his managerial skills
Bharath R. for being the coder I look up to
Vivek Premkumar for his well organised DC share
Rajesh Bhasin for helping me write my SOP (and making fun of it too!)
Mohammad Kazi for giving me an idea about the life of a Grad student
Jyoti A R for being VictoireWeasley and for getting a PS in New York!!!
Ganesh Vernekar for his easy-go-lucky attitude
Siddharth Agrawal for his..... well.... DC share (ahem!)
The entire bitzone.tk team for helping us with the admissions process
And the countless other seniors who helped me through these three and a half years, selling books at throw-away prices, offering valuable advice every step along the way and just being there!
To be continued...
Saturday, December 19, 2009
BITS - The Last Day (Part 1)
Today is my last day BITS Pilani Goa Campus. I have mixed feelings about leaving this place. At first, I was happy that I would finally complete all the courses here, no longer have to endure the electricity cuts, the water shortage in summer, the constant struggle for grades, the overly restrictive internet connection, etc. But then, I realised all the moments I spent with my friends, be it Tejas' inappropriate and unintentional misuse of language or Amol's terrible timing for expressing his opinion. It has definitely been a wonderful experience.
A lot has happened in the last three and a half years. As our previous AH7 Hostel Assistant, Manas Bhaiyya put it, I entered BITS as a boy and now leave as a man. There's a lot of people who touched my life and changed me, right from the first year, till today.
I believe that the best way to thank all the people who made my life in BITS tolerable, fun and interesting is to write a sentence each about them and how they influenced my life.
First off, my teachers.
A Big Thank You:
To B. Deshpande Sir for being the best teacher I have been taught by, and whatever!
To R. Joshi Sir for his passion about the open source movement
To M. Bedekar Sir for his innovative ideas and guidance
To Neena Goveas Ma'am for making me distribute answer sheets in class
To D.M.Kulkarni Sir for giving me an opportunity to help the campus
To Imran Ahmed Sir for motivating me to achieve greater goals
To V.Sreejith Sir for being my Team Coach for ACM ICPC 2008
To Gireesan Sir who made my interest in Computer Science grow even more
To All AH7 Wardens for giving me leave whenever I needed to go home
To All other teachers for teaching me whatever I know today and not punishing me for sleeping in class
Now my friends...
I would like to thank the following people without whom BITS life would have probably been really dull
Siddhartha Wagh for waiting for me for more than two hours so that we could be allotted adjacent rooms
Amol Walunj for suggesting awesome movies whenever I wanted to watch one
Tejas Pradhan for helping me a lot during my apping
Nilesh Kulkarni for teaching me what quick learning actually is
Swapnil Dhamal for "Sure aahes ka???"
Vikrant Dhamdhere for entertaining me with his mimicking skills and for not knowing that I have a blog :)
Sohan Kale for allowing me to fix his laptop and install Ubuntu innumerable number of times
Sourabh Bodas for, well, teaching me the art of selective deafness :P
Mihir Mehta for his cricket gyaan
Ninad Puranik for teaching me what being a good boy is (in PS 1)
Vaibhav Shinde for being there to vent my boredom on
Aditya Yadav for hatching plans for projects with me one day before every examination
Rahul Sengupta for reminding me to look at the most obvious things, gifts and friends in life that we take for granted and tend to overlook
Karan Gaikwad for his dancing and his awesomeness
Kavya Meyyappan for being a source of inspiration to me
Sireesha Yakkali for getting me interested enough to read 'The Fountainhead'
Juthika Dabholkar for being bored, sleepy, hungry and tired, all at once ;)
Pranshu Sharma for her Tandoori PJs
Kartik Ukhalkar for participating in Codejams with me and helping me in all my endeavors
Rakesh Ganatra for being an awesome team member in Codejams and being extremely helpful whenever I needed favors
Rohan Anil for writing Natasha with me and helping me with Linux problems
Sujay Jain for leading the chorus all around the campus after the ASCII farewell
Ankit Panchbhai for entertaining me with his antics during PS 1
Anupam Mitra for TeXing with me and staying up with me till 5am singing Christmas Carols and completing the COP report
Yogesh C. for teaching me how to go from being a complete newbie to a network security professional
Hitesh Mantrala for being so active with the Linux User Group and for running the Gnome DC Hub
Starakjeet Nayak for being a friend
Ankita Kejriwal for being a great team member during Nettech
Abhik Lahiri for always being a step ahead of me in all my CS courses
Mansi Verma for showing me what dedication is
Prakash Murali for showing me what a great Resume is
The CS students of 2006 batch for being so awesome
My corridor mates for not smoking
AH7 for being a multifaceted and multitalented hostel
The TITAN DC Hub Admin Team for keeping the MainChat and AdminChat alive and interesting
The Woodstock DC Hub Admin Team for downloading the latest episodes immediately as soon as they were aired
and the entire 2006 batch for just being there!!!
I'm sure this list is incomplete (and includes only my friends from the 2006 batch for now) and a lot many names still need to be added. I will be working on it as and when I get time over the next few days.
More Later...
A lot has happened in the last three and a half years. As our previous AH7 Hostel Assistant, Manas Bhaiyya put it, I entered BITS as a boy and now leave as a man. There's a lot of people who touched my life and changed me, right from the first year, till today.
I believe that the best way to thank all the people who made my life in BITS tolerable, fun and interesting is to write a sentence each about them and how they influenced my life.
First off, my teachers.
A Big Thank You:
To B. Deshpande Sir for being the best teacher I have been taught by, and whatever!
To R. Joshi Sir for his passion about the open source movement
To M. Bedekar Sir for his innovative ideas and guidance
To Neena Goveas Ma'am for making me distribute answer sheets in class
To D.M.Kulkarni Sir for giving me an opportunity to help the campus
To Imran Ahmed Sir for motivating me to achieve greater goals
To V.Sreejith Sir for being my Team Coach for ACM ICPC 2008
To Gireesan Sir who made my interest in Computer Science grow even more
To All AH7 Wardens for giving me leave whenever I needed to go home
To All other teachers for teaching me whatever I know today and not punishing me for sleeping in class
Now my friends...
I would like to thank the following people without whom BITS life would have probably been really dull
Siddhartha Wagh for waiting for me for more than two hours so that we could be allotted adjacent rooms
Amol Walunj for suggesting awesome movies whenever I wanted to watch one
Tejas Pradhan for helping me a lot during my apping
Nilesh Kulkarni for teaching me what quick learning actually is
Swapnil Dhamal for "Sure aahes ka???"
Vikrant Dhamdhere for entertaining me with his mimicking skills and for not knowing that I have a blog :)
Sohan Kale for allowing me to fix his laptop and install Ubuntu innumerable number of times
Sourabh Bodas for, well, teaching me the art of selective deafness :P
Mihir Mehta for his cricket gyaan
Ninad Puranik for teaching me what being a good boy is (in PS 1)
Vaibhav Shinde for being there to vent my boredom on
Aditya Yadav for hatching plans for projects with me one day before every examination
Rahul Sengupta for reminding me to look at the most obvious things, gifts and friends in life that we take for granted and tend to overlook
Karan Gaikwad for his dancing and his awesomeness
Kavya Meyyappan for being a source of inspiration to me
Sireesha Yakkali for getting me interested enough to read 'The Fountainhead'
Juthika Dabholkar for being bored, sleepy, hungry and tired, all at once ;)
Pranshu Sharma for her Tandoori PJs
Kartik Ukhalkar for participating in Codejams with me and helping me in all my endeavors
Rakesh Ganatra for being an awesome team member in Codejams and being extremely helpful whenever I needed favors
Rohan Anil for writing Natasha with me and helping me with Linux problems
Sujay Jain for leading the chorus all around the campus after the ASCII farewell
Ankit Panchbhai for entertaining me with his antics during PS 1
Anupam Mitra for TeXing with me and staying up with me till 5am singing Christmas Carols and completing the COP report
Yogesh C. for teaching me how to go from being a complete newbie to a network security professional
Hitesh Mantrala for being so active with the Linux User Group and for running the Gnome DC Hub
Starakjeet Nayak for being a friend
Ankita Kejriwal for being a great team member during Nettech
Abhik Lahiri for always being a step ahead of me in all my CS courses
Mansi Verma for showing me what dedication is
Prakash Murali for showing me what a great Resume is
The CS students of 2006 batch for being so awesome
My corridor mates for not smoking
AH7 for being a multifaceted and multitalented hostel
The TITAN DC Hub Admin Team for keeping the MainChat and AdminChat alive and interesting
The Woodstock DC Hub Admin Team for downloading the latest episodes immediately as soon as they were aired
and the entire 2006 batch for just being there!!!
I'm sure this list is incomplete (and includes only my friends from the 2006 batch for now) and a lot many names still need to be added. I will be working on it as and when I get time over the next few days.
More Later...
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