Finally…Some relief :)

Hi,

The last few days were the most torturous for almost everyone in my college. Probably not so much to the first year and second year students, but definitely for the rest of them. It was the time of our main technical festival…INC 2010.

Firstly the groundwork, I have never been a big fan of INC. For the last four years I have always had a strange feeling of loneliness during this part of the academic year. The festival to me is just not complete enough. I have never liked the judging at INC, I bet a lot of my colleagues and past PICTians will surely disagree with me (I bet they will all tell me to stop being a cry baby since I did not win a prize). Although I must say that a lot of highly qualified judges do review a lot of projects and offer a lot of suggestions for improvement in all aspects, I have never really liked the perspective with which the projects are reviewed. (Some are exceptions) Any ways, since I don’t have any better suggestion and neither would my opinion count a lot, I will better stop right now about this.

Personally the B.E project has been a mixture of emotions for me.Firstly, If someone asks me about the B.E project, I will have to tell that its probably the worst project that I did. Not that I don’t believe in the idea (maybe I think it might be a bit incomplete) but I am absolutely critical about its implementation. Before starting it out, there were a lot of things that I promised myself to do but over the course of time I failed to achieve my goals.Yeah I did win a few competitions here and there but overall the project always left me unsatisfied. The team dynamics and its functioning also often left me wondering if I had done everything right in this regard.Frankly, I think a lot of my decisions that I took over a year ago backfired.

But there are also a few positives that have come from the B.E project. Since my project was related to compilers, now I have at least found a love for something that is quite challenging and also know a little bit more about GCC than the rest of the people here. It has helped me to fall in love with open source and the way it all works especially the way GCC’s community works and I cherish the wonderful interactions that I have had with the folks in the community and with my mentors. Hopefully in the future I will be able to contribute to GCC in a meaningful manner.

For the B.E project we still have some time before we officially complete it but I doubt myself If I will be able to find the motivation and the time to take it forward and significantly improve it. Hopefully I do.

About INC 2010, If any of the third year students do read this, I must congratulate them all for organizing the event in the best possible manner.It was a decently well organized event and, as was the case with us, I think you must also have experienced a lot of sleepless nights during the event.A good job by all of those who were involved.

Finally…A lot relieved now.

cheers

X

Sandy