REALIZING YOUR DREAM

9:23 AM / Posted by garima / comments (1)

REALIZING YOUR DREAM
Love for your country can take on many dimensions. For some, it exists at the superficial level, for the sake of identification, for some a fact of life that is passively present, an identity which is present somewhere around, whereas for some, it is a part of who you are, your family, your blood. Whatever level one is on, the fact that you owe your country for whatever you‘ve achieved cannot be denied. In this era of globalization, the concept of nationhood seems to be dwin-dling in stature. But our country still holds a deep significance to our identity, our existence. India, the name itself brings a varied sense of emotions, a feeling of pride, a sense of belonging to something magnificent. So, why not give some-thing back? Why not pay back our dues in whichever way we can to the country that has given us so much?
With this thought in my mind and an already present admiration for the armed forces, I decided to give a shot in choosing defense as a career. Reaching an important juncture in your life, where the path you choose becomes your identity is a particularly difficult time for many. The balancing of the various factors that account for deciding your career path will rival even some of the complexities of nuclear science. On one side, you would have your life-long dream, the most-cherished ambition that you wanted to achieve and on the other side, the lucrative salaries and the ‗safe bet‘ option chosen by all those around you. The urge and temptation for the latter is too big to overshadow the former, at least for the most of us.
And this is exactly where I found myself, having to choose between the two. The initial opposition from parents and others almost bogged me down and I began having second thoughts over my decision to join the armed forces. It is quite a difficult phase to be in and it tests your determination to the hilt. The ini-tial doubts then turn into anxiety over whether I‘m good enough, dedicated enough for the job. Then comes the ‗What if?‘ scenarios where you begin to go into a spiral of negative thoughts. What if I don‘t get it? What if it was not worth it? After a plethora of questioning and cross-questioning, you tend to get stabi-lized in your thoughts and come out either satisfied and aware, in some cases or still, confused and doubtful, as in most cases.
Still, trudging on in spite of all these thoughts, I went on to give and clear the written examination for armed forces (CDSE) and was called by the Air Force selection Board. After a grueling week of tests and activities, it was a pleasant surprise to hear my name being called out in the recommended list.
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It was a great feeling to move one step closer towards my dream. But, there are more obstacles yet to be crossed, more steps yet to be taken before the final dream gets accomplished. Till that time, one cannot rest but must work on tire-lessly.
I write my experiences because I want everyone to know that your dreams, if not already, are well within your grasp. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise. The struggle that one undertakes in achieving the dream makes the journey a much more memorable experience. So, when the time comes to make a decision, a decision to pursue your dream or let it slip away for the sake of a safe, bankable option, remember this saying ―Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.‖
―Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.‖
-Suraj nair– B.E. Computers

THE GREEN TIGER

9:23 AM / Posted by garima / comments (0)

THE GREEN TIGER
From the title, I‘m sure that the instinctive reaction that most of you‘ll would have is that this article might just be a metaphor or spoof of the Booker win-ning ‗The White Tiger‘ by Aravind Adiga. However, what I‘m referring to here is one of the biggest hurdles in India‘s development- CORRUPTION.
Corruption has spread its evil wings to every strata of society- be it at the grass root level, or at the Government level. By corruption, I mean political corrup-tion, which is the dysfunction of a political system or institution in which govern-ment officials, political officials or employees seek illegitimate personal gain through actions such as bribery, extortion, etc.
Its many ill effects in various fields are:
1. On politics, administration & institutions:
Corruption erodes the institutional capacity of government as procedures are disre-garded, resources are siphoned off, and public offices are bought and sold. In elec-tions, it reduces accountability. People lose their trust in the ruling bodies, which affects representation. Corruption in the judiciary compromises the rule of law.
2. On Economics:
In the private sector, corruption increases the cost of business through the price of illicit payments themselves, the management cost of negotiating with officials, and the risk of breached agreements or detection. Corruption also lowers compliance with construction, environmental, or other regulations, reduces the quality of gov-ernment services and infrastructure, and increases budgetary pressures on govern-ment .
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3. On Environment & Society:
More often than not, a lot of projects and factories are audited without any Government objection, despite them having flouted several laws. On the other hand, the one who refuses to pay under the table is unfortunately the one who‘s at loss. Officials often steal state property. In Bihar, more than 80% of the subsidized food aid to poor is stolen by corrupt officials. Simi-larly, food aid is often robbed at gunpoint by governments and criminals and sold for a profit.
On health, public safety, education, trade unions etc.:
Bribes made by suppliers of safety equipment, etc are hardly uncommon. To-day, corruption has become widespread in the field of education, where in, parents literally PURCHASE seats for their children. Corruption can also affect the various components of sports activities (referees, players, medical and laboratory staff involved in anti-doping controls, members of national sport federation and international committees deciding about the allocation of contracts and competition places). Match fixing is yet another form of cor-ruption.
The most glaring of all corruption related offences, however, is compromise in secu-rity related matters. All of us are aware that no terrorist attack can succeed without an inside hand. Take for instance the 1993 Bombay bomb blasts. The perpetrators could not have even got the weapons through to the Indian shores had they not been assisted by the Naval commandos and small time henchmen, who for a paltry sum, risked a nation as a whole. Not once did they flinch at the thought of selling their country for the sake of money.
Citizens do not report crimes to the police, fearing action against them for having charged powerful/well to do individuals.
Cash for vote is another scandal, which has become quite prominent of late. Several politicians, actors and businessmen bribe Income Tax officials for tax eva-sion.
Contractors bribe employees of companies in order to receive lucrative con-tracts without having the merit to serve with honesty and efficiency.
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It is thus not wrong to say that the system itself is corrupted.
Examples are endless and occurrences- infinite!!
So why am I calling Corruption, The Green Tiger??
Just as a tiger waits to pounce on his prey, corruption is laying its hands on everything that it can possibly find. It is a hungry animal which can attack anything it can sight, and if not curbed, can lead to the complete failure of democracy.
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual; the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
SAY NO TO CORRUPTION; SAVE YOURSELF FROM THE GREEN TIGER!!
-Kavitha G T.e. etrx

HOW TO BE A RICH PERSON?

9:22 AM / Posted by garima / comments (0)

HOW TO BE A RICH PERSON?
If anyone asked my brother, when he was small, what he wanted to be when he was big, he would say in clear, unhesitant, fierce and assured tone , ―mujhe ameer banna hai !‖ I want to be rich. The old relatives would then laugh hysteri-cally unaware that my (dare I say it!) intelligent brother chose the easiest profes-sion on earth: to be rich.
Experienced men and wealthy people themselves claim that to be rich one must have qualities of hard work, sincerity, virtue, determination, persistence and blah blah. That‘s good enough as an advice…good enough only as an advice.
I have done a great deal of research observing quite a few wealthy chaps and being a very benevolent person I will tell you the real secrets of becoming rich.
The first secret, the one that can never fail, the easiest, most convenient, abso-lutely full proof plan to richness is inheritance. Be born in a rich family. Simple. When the angel of child-allocation in heaven sits with his notebook and pen in hand, assigning babies to human couples (obviously human! What‘s the use be-ing a rich poodle! All you would get is a fancy hair cut and pink chain. What a waste!) make sure you flatter the angel enough to assign you to a rich man‘s house. If you are a prodigy sweet talker it would be an icing to the cake to be able to convince the child-allocating angel to make you the only child. Then you are all set for life. No need to even read this text. No worries…no issues just get up in the morning spend some money… sleep at night spending more money and keep doing this till you die after which it does not really matter how is left or gone. All you would have to think is how to convince that child-allocating angel again (Ha! Good luck with that now!)
If you aren‘t born rich then be sure you are born poor. (Biting the child-allocating angel‘s wings should do the trick). All the rich people of today, were at some juncture poverty stricken, loony chaps with scraps of money in their pockets. Am serious. Really. Look at any millionaire‘s interview. He was born in a financially wobbly household and by the age of 15-16 runs away with a few hundreds to spare. So on an urgent basis, be poor. If you aren‘t, start pretending to be one. Having adequate money now will not make you rich in the future. Be sure to take the train by the time you finish school (we are already late for that now! So hurry…! Kurla station is 10minutes from college)
To be rich embrace the richness, be a part of the culture and imbibe its qualities. The early sleepers and risers can kiss money goodbye. All that funny business of turning down the lights at 10:30pm and hauling yourself out of bed at 6:30 like the lark needs to be stopped right away. Sleep with the owl & rise at a decent 10:00am enjoying the lurid warmth of your cozy blanket. Have you ever heard any rich bees barging their work places before noon? Huh? Tell me! Call at their bally offices and you will be greeted with an absurdly sweet voiced lady, slowly
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10:00am enjoying the lurid warmth of your cozy blanket. Have you ever heard any rich bees barging their work places before noon? Huh? Tell me! Call at their bally offices and you will be greeted with an absurdly sweet voiced lady, slowly lowering the axe on your plans by callously announcing that Mr. Richie Rich won‘t be checking in before lunch time.
You have to be apt at understanding semi-funny, meagerly-funny, not-at-all-funny and that-was-sad-enough-for-me-to-kill-you-so-help-me-I-will business jokes and laugh at them in a controlled but booming bear-like sound.
At least five cups of expensive coffee must be consumed everyday each- half drunk and half thrown on account of it being nasty.
By law, the phone should never be answered by you and even when received by your absurdly-sweet-voiced lady it must be transferred only at the third attempt of the caller. Exceptions however can be made to this rule (I mean if your mother/spouse/mother-in-law throw you out of the house for making them wait an hour on the phone, then don‘t coming whining to me!)
This is as far as social norms are concerned.
In matters of business too, there are certain things that are worth replicating.
While placing proposals sport the stern no-dilly-dally expression on your face; keeping the statement- „1000 bucks a piece; take it or leave it‟ at the tip of your tongue. It‘s not the sentence really. It‘s how you say it. It must sound like you wouldn‘t give a joker‘s hat for the money even though your insides are screech-ing otherwise because in reality you would probably have to be recruited as a pirate‘s ship sweeper if your client left the ‗take it or leave it‘ deal.
My father is a business man and this has enabled me to catch enough interesting conversations of rich blokes to safely conclude that theses richies care about lit-tle money as much as they do about their big money. A penny saved is a penny earned.
I once witnessed two men sitting in a café, sipping coffee and muttering in hushed voices. (God knows why they have to ‗mutter‘ in public places. It‘s not like a family eating donuts on the next table would take a sprint to their broker, with open mouths & donut still hanging in air, the moment they eavesdrop on your conservation. Tchah! What vanity! But I guess that must be another es-sence to richness or most of them wouldn‘t be croaking like they have almonds stuck in their throats every time they discuss business in cafes. )
First man asked second man: ―How was the meeting with Mahindra?‖
They do this all the time- call people by the name of the company they work in. Absolutely ridiculous, if you ask me. Just imagine how many Microsofts and Walt Disneys there are in this world!
Second man to first man: ―It was alright. I put forth my budget for the proposal- One million. Not a penny more, not a penny less‖
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See…! They are very sensitive about one penny. Doesn‘t matter where the One million go, the penny is the nub of the situation. So I think it would be prudent potatoes for 50rs a kilo, not a rupee more, not a rupee less‘. Oh and please call me when you do this. I'd like to bear witness to the priceless expression on the vendor‘s face who was most probably about to offer you 30 for a kilo. (Haha…!)
Bankruptcy has to unavoidably occur in your life. Every rich person has gone bankrupt at least once. It would be a good idea not to pay your income taxes compelling a raid whose consequent would be you behind bars. For instant rich-ness do all of it -- swindle other people‘s money, never pay taxes, go bankrupt when asked to pay anything , get yourself into critical criminal offence then pro-long it for years till every other businessman, employee, secretary, driver, sweeper, chai wala, paan wala know that you‘re an absolute goner. After this, make a miraculous entry into the business world exploiting an old wasted invest-ment you once made, as a mistake, but is now the pinnacle of financial earnings. To mask your self-conceived notoriety image engage uselessly in social endeav-ors. Protest against deforestation, even though you dwell on a land which was once abundant with greenery, strive for the uplifting of poor humans, even though you haven‘t paid your domestic servants 10 months worth salaries, sup-port women‘s progress and education, cleanliness drives, garbage collection, cultural encouragement, gift blankets to orphans, kiss babies, feed sick animals so on & so forth. You won‘t really have to do much. Just say that you‘re doing them, get a few fancy photographs taken with a smug smile and the paparazzi will go crazy! (Oh! that rhymes!)
Above all, there is one thing which if not instigated will force your plans to col-lapse faster than the leaning tower titled a wee bit more. It is wit. You should and must be exceedingly, unimaginably, exceptionally, absurdly and awfully witty. Smartness and intellect must be in your blood corpuscles. You have to be intelligent enough to deal with air headed humans, understand & judge them correctly, know their worth, how true or false they are and how much to rely & believe. You must be able to see right through them in the same manner as you must be able to see right through this article!
Good luck!
May the force of Richie Rich be with you!

— Saanjhi L S.E. ETRX

India Inc

9:11 AM / Posted by garima / comments (0)

India Inc.
The promenade of sanguineness
Talk about our nation and we find a can of worms; worms of corruption, illiteracy, unemployment, higher prices, weak infrastructure and a bunch of social problems- worries, botheration and glitches everywhere! Moreover, external threats merely ex-tend the list of challenges confronting India (Let‘s not get started on terrorism!). En-ter the various arenas of agriculture, business, technology – the box of worriment keeps expanding in volume, thus making the future, ultra-mosaic! Amidst such sinis-ter clouds, India has a zealous set of young work force and a resourceful population too! With an astute cluster of B-schools like the IIMs, XLRI and MDI, and their B-dexters, our business is surely going to boom! Commingle this ingenious and avid youth class and you find a spark, the one which aims at reinventing models for India, radically! These very ‗business creators‘ not only ascend the country‘s opulence but also place India competitively in the global marketplace. Thanks to such Einsteins, the business design principles in India have undergone a reform- a shape for the good of the common man, and they have been ameliorating day by day. Today, inde-pendent of the special market conditions, India exhibits the Westerners a pivotal source of inspiration; the design principles which everyone should consider…. (At least, once!)
The 10% Rule:
India has been good at revamping constraints into creativity and adroitness. The 10% rule states that the goods and services are delivered to the market at a price which is 10% of the western world‘s average price. This could raise competitiveness to altogether a new level. Take an instance of Seva Foundation‟s Clinton Global Initiative Commitment whose sole vision is to eliminate blindness in spite of the bar-riers of indigence, remoteness and ignorance. The motive is simple: one million more eyes will see again every year by 2015. In the past year alone, it has performed over 500,000 eye surgeries and screened over three million people for eye health. So, it is necessary to lower the costs instead of assuming big budgets so that every common man has access to such awe-inspiring goods and services.
Mass Mobilization:
This principle draws out a model to ‗employ‘ the unemployed rather than ‗pay‘ the unemployed. India has cogently tapped human networks to deliver both, marketing and social services. (A bizarre, yet a blooming combination!) Rings a bell? 9
The Mumbai Dabbawallas! Having delivered over 200,000 lunches to people in offices and schools from their home every day for decades, they have set up a gilt-edged paradigm to this principle. This delivery system is zappy yet simple-
You employ a swarm of scantily literate delivery men to manage deliveries in a cost efficient manner! So, while we can recurrently talk about the perils of nesting a huge population, mass mobilization can be the tour de force behind serving a large consumer base.
Technology as infrastructure:
An effective use of technology instead of physical infrastructure can improve the delivery of social and commercial services efficiently and effectively. ITC‘s ‗E-choupal‟ system depicts how efficiently technology can be used to establish a spread-out infrastructure. The E-choupal is designed to tackle the problems faced by Indian agriculture characterized by weak infrastructure and involvement of nu-merous intermediaries. ‗E-choupal‘ services today reach out to over 4 million farm-ers in over 40,000 villages across ten states in India. It solves the problems of infra-structural inadequacies by deploying several innovative solutions like power back-up through solar batteries, upgrading BSNL exchanges with RNS kits, 24 x 7 help-desk, etc. Through internet kiosks, it provides the farmers with information on weather, and access to wider markets. This not only generates economic value but also transmits a flow of links from the business to the social world!
Broader Platforms for collaboration :
It is necessary to pursue more cross institutional collaborations and joint ventures; collaboration is an efficient means of enhancing the delivery of development pro-grammes. The Andhra Pradesh Government has introduced an online citizen ser-vice portal, APOnline Limited, a tie-up with the Tata Consultancy Services Limited. It provides services in the areas of agriculture, health, education, business and gov-ernment services which have helped the government in improving transparency and reducing delivery cycles, thus reducing the cost of compliance with governmental regulations. Such examples shake the roots of the naïve belief that cross institu-tional collaboration is an unwanted means of extending the reach and capacities of any given institution.
Retracing the model:
Sketching new models requires the status information about the current model, the cream activities of the current one and the novel ideas that would match up the old ones. Besides, rethinking on ideas that would bring values and redesigning errors (may be, faults!) in the earlier model, form an unavoidable part. And this is not like making a duck soup!! 10
With a lagging education system on one hand and a whopping emerging man-power on the other, India has completely rethought the ways in which it can re-cruit and train its workforce. These will handout India to capitalize on its re-source and become a major global R&D hub. (By 2020, India will have the larg-est labour surplus in the world—45 million people.)
Imagine an ad interim educational system that considers workers with wobbly educational backgrounds and turn them into R&D specialists- sounds filmy? Well, it isn‘t! The Indian industry has worked out a codified industry-based skill development program draping rigorous training programs. With this resourceful new model, offshore R&D has become a booming business in India, and is ex-pected to grow over 20% a year, to a $21 billion industry in India by 2012. So, now, it need not count on a multitude of PhDs to make way through an educa-tional system to serve the commercial agenda!
The above designs canvas new models of enterprising brushed from the princi-ples of a blossoming business! Such examples are worth challenging the status quo and asking ‗What if?‘ One never knows- more radical possibilities indeed stimulate a nimble reality; these models might give rise to a few aristocratic Mom and Pop and spawn a country full of Biz pundits!!!
Abhishek Manian, TE EXTC
Roma Kalani, TE CMPN

MS 101

10:49 AM / Posted by Grafitus / comments (0)

This is a great guide to solve all your problems regarding GRE/MS. It's written by a VESIT/SFE Alumni Kunal Atitkar.

Download pdf here

Hope you've found it useful.
Deep Patel
dmpatel.1988@gmail.com

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Placements 101

2:11 AM / Posted by Grafitus / comments (3)

It looks like placements is the buzzword in VESIT once again. It’s bound to be chaotic, confusing and at the end ... cathartic. And as a responsible senior who has nothing better to do on a boring weekend afternoon, it is my duty to help you find some organisation amidst this disorganisation. But before I say the P word once again I’d like to clarify one thing – I’m no expert in this erm... field. There are probably people who are better suited to give away this gyaan. But as I said, it’s a weekend and there’s no good movie, so the onus falls on me to do what I’m doing. What I want to say is that you should reach out to as many people as possible with your queries esp. the generic ones. A single person might have a prejudice that could lead you to take a disastrous career decision.
So now that the disclaimer is done and dusted, let’s move on:

1) Why so soon?
Well, up until last year this WAS the period during which people got placed. Then came recession and along with it a premise for NASSCOM to pass the directive to defer campus placements to JAN 2010. Whatever be the reason, the sooner you accept it, the better.

2) Do I qualify? If not I’d rather use my time efficiently by catching up on some World Cup action!
The general criteria for companies vary and have to be agreed upon by BOTH sides of the bargain i.e. the recruiter and TPO cell. So it is generally observed that after the initial rounds of stringent cut-off for eligibility, the TPO relaxes norms to accommodate more unplaced students. However there are exceptions. For example, companies like Deloitte and Directi came with a ‘NO CRITERIA’ policy. So no matter what your aggregate is, you might want to pay Mr. RS Agarwal a visit.

3) Is this the only way I can get placed?
Definitely not! There are also other options like walk-in interviews or off-campus tests. Alternatively, you can appear for standard aptitude tests like NACTECH and apply to wide range of companies like Patni, HCL on the basis of the scores. However all this options require you to venture into the murky waters of researching and searching where you compete with a pool of probably thousands of freshers and experienced candidates. Also expectations are high in an off campus interview. So don’t let this opportunity go by without your best try. Luckily, VESIT has the repute that gets you the best of companies to come look for you rather than the other way round.

4) What is the process and what the hell is a stress interview?
The process again is pretty standardised for all companies with each company adding a minor tweak or two. In general, the process is like this:
Aptitude test (Quant, Verbal, Data Interpretation, Reasoning and C/C++ in some cases)
Technical Interview (Optional)
GD (Optional)
Presentation (Optional)
HR Interview (notoriously known as the stress interview, though in most cases its only a myth)
Apart from this there is the pre placement presentation which is very important to help you make the decision whether that particular company is worthy of having you or not.

5)Woah! Long list!! How do you prepare for it?
Well, the entire process is so designed to assess you on your capabilities in a wide range of skillsets. Understandably, resume building is a process that happens over a period of time. So something this versatile is difficult to be mastered in a span of a few days. Although planned preparation can do wonders to how efficiently and systematically you approach the tests and interviews.
Aptitude tests:
I personally think that for aptitude tests you should follow a two-fold approach .
• Get your basics right in your weakest areas
• Sharpen your skills in your strongest areas
Here I list some of the sources which may help you prepare for either scenarios :
Quant:
Basic: RS Agarwal, TCS Aptitude Papers, Test funda concept books, IMS BRM
Advanced: Arun Sharma(Only shortcuts, don’t solve examples), Test funda work books, IMS workbooks
Verbal:
Basic: TCS wordlist, IMS Verbal Reasoning BRM(Highly recommended)
Advanced: IMS workbook, TIME Verbal module on correct usages
DI/LR
Basic: IMS BRM for DI/ Reasoning , GRE Data Interpretation questions, TCS Apti papers
Advanced: IMS BRM / workbook
Technical
Certain subjects are very important for the interview like Data Structures, DBMS, OS and System Programming apart from the programming languages of course. Revise important programs like linked lists, fibo, etc. Also concepts such as processes and threads in OS , keys in DBMS, etc.
For other subjects you can just brush up whatever you had studied from reference books or class notes. Don’t try to go into a lot of detail. If you didn’t like the subject in the first place, chances a dim that you’d like it now.
Interview:
Loads of material exists on how to prepare for an interview. Just keep it simple , be polite , diplomatic yet honest and you should see yourself through. Just remember they want you as much as you want them.

6)All right! That’s it? Isn’t there something called the resume?
Yeah, the resume! Again, there is lots of stuff on the resume on the internet. I would like to add a few more pointers to it though.
a) Keep it short, very short and precise. Definitely not more than 2 pages
b) They hardly glance twice at your resume. So highlight the things you want them to see and discuss in the interview.
c) Know what you’ve put because only that gets discussed in the interview.
d) If your achievements don’t amount to much space , so be it! Don’t add irrelevant matter just for the sake of it
e) Prepare a rough draft with all that comes to your mind, then ask yourself ‘Which of these can I talk about the best’. Keep those things only!
f) Prepare separate resumes for separate companies. Gauge the need of the company and what you want to portray yourself as to them.

All this gyaan is no ultimate gospel of course. Please consult as many knowledgeable seniors as you can. Make a decision for yourself. Don’t get intimidated by opinions or reputations. Think straight, think right. Wish you all a great placement season 
Deep Patel
dmpatel.1988@gmail.com

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THe VESIT societies saga

12:52 AM / Posted by Grafitus / comments (2)

Hi guys, there is this post a senior wrote a few years ago on an orkut community about life of society council members in VESIT. It was way back when VESIT had 7 societies but the essence still holds. It was retrieved from a blog by some Vaibhav Kamat. It goes like this :

10:30 AM on the VESIT 4th flour

At 10:30 the bell rings, its break time .But no break for SCR(society council members)
Students looking so pathetic in the lecture , suddenly are the men of action.
Some run, some jog and slowly the random mob seems to forming n-sized groups . while few
still like to run dodging the fellows . In the pretty confined space of the corridor SCRs manage space , after all managing is their job. Discussions are in the air and the sound waves superimpose and distort.
Many time their are announcements and the SCRs force their way in a class , sometimes the students/SCR ratio is embarrassing , but adjustments are made persuading the outsiders.The groups move from one class to another and the PROs repeat the same stuff.Yeah SCRs are excellent time managers too!
At the peak time, people density is at its best. Many SCRs excellent dodging
skills rescue them. As they say "when going gets tough tough gets going".
Finally the ending bell rings , SCRs realize theres end to everything. groups slowly disperse and the men of action are again the dull guys in the classroom along with others...
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Very well put, Vaibhav. Its strange how being in the thick of things kind of rouses certain people's energies and channelizes them... Perhaps it's the sense of 'doing something' in this monotonous engineering life or maybe as Dale Carneige wrote, people just want to 'feel' important. Whatever it might be, this is the thing that makes VESIT what it is for me and I'm sure many share the thought. And no amount of cribbing on my part about non-funtional printers, slow-internet connections, lousy staff ,pain-in-the-ass faculty can take away the fact that many remain and many will be indebted to VESIT for giving them this pleasure to discover heroes within themselves.

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AMD Phenomenon

8:28 AM / Posted by neelesh / comments (0)

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Next to GOD is Google

8:27 AM / Posted by neelesh / comments (1)


Q. What do you do when you are in some big trouble and have no way out of it?

A. You either pray to God or you turn on the computer, log on to the internet and just GOOGLE your way out.

Google is not a problem solver or even a solution arena, it’s just a simple search engine with complex algorithms that work hard to provide you the right direction/guide you to your solution. Since the turn of the century, Google has been widely regarded as the best and the simplest of the search engines out there. Its popularity is such that it is seen in the company’s annual revenues, which show signs of profit even in the time of such an economic slowdown, not to say that Google is American and is IT-based.

When the duo of Hanna-Barbara ran their creative minds, the world got Scooby doo and the catchphrase “Yabba-Dabba-Doo!” So when the GEEKY duo of Larry Page and Sergey Brin ran their technical brains, the world got GOOGLE and the rest is history. Google, primarily a search engine has expanded vastly in directions multiple and has given birth to many daughter companies like ADsense, ADwords, Google Maps, Google Earth, Gmail, also acquiring many websites like YouTube, Orkut, Blogger etc. It also has its presence in the software industry which has given us software’s like Google chrome, Android OS and other Google LABS applications that have expanded the possibility of the use of internet.

“Google is a complete package, a guide, a SAVIOUR to all your problems on and offline”

Google, Non-Technically speaking has been into the industry since more than a decade now and has gone through various transformations; significantly the logo has always remained the same, except for it changing on special occasions like the Independence Day or other regional or international festivals, that show the companies cause toward a more friendly environment, which Google has very well incorporated with its unofficial tagline and work mantra – “don’t be evil”. This very approach towards the masses has helped Google become more popular than many of its competitors and it has thus become the most used home-page and why not? Many dictionaries today have the word “Google it” which they claim is now a synonym for the word “search”

Ease of use, friendly environment and simple looks apart, Google is more than just visuals, when you see the amount of time it takes, probably sum fraction of a second, it’s hard to believe that it has actually given you a billion search results already. With more than a million search queries to be processed each day, this call of duty has prompted Google to equip itself with the most sophisticated of the technical instruments and the latest of technology, so much that it easily handles the 1 Petabyte of approximated user data that it receives every single hour

Google can easily earn more through their ads if they know the needs of their target audiences. Thus incorporating the right advertisements at the right time for the right person will only result in – “Perfect Advertisement”, and that alone is enough to satisfy the company’s monetary needs.

So the next time you find yourself in the middle of some grave problem and you find that God is seemingly busy to pay attention to your prayers, work out your fingers over the keyboard and just type in your query at google.com, surely it won’t be a waste of time and who knows you might just be lucky. For more on Google, just try to Google it.

Weird Tech!!

8:26 AM / Posted by neelesh / comments (0)

The latest innovations in the fields of science and technology has led to the development of a number of mind-boggling gadgets and gizmos. While some are designed to make life easy, others seem to cater to the fancy of the rich and the famous. Apart from these, there exist a set of other gadgets which seem to be nothing more than the whim of their creators. Sure every child’s dream of getting a James Bond thing will be soon a reality. Heres taking a sneak-peek!

Ever wondered how weird it might look to have ur slippers glowing?Illuminated Car Slippers are actually cosy car shaped shoes that let you move in the dark comfortably. Fitted with bright LED lights, these extra ordinary slippers can light up the floor up to a distance of 30 feet. Surely a handy innovation to find your way in the dark!
CUT COPY AND PASTE-On the computer it’s so freakingly easy but what if u are nasty in cutting things just like me? Designed primarily to assist people who find it difficult in cutting a paper along a straight line. The laser scissors can help you to get the perfect cut. Just aim the pin point laser, follow the line, and you will never mess up with the perfect cutting. Made of stainless steel, these scissor blades have a micro serrated edge and provide a commendable finish to cut edges .P.s-don’t aim it anywhere else!!

Now here’s a byte that’s sweet to the eyes but not to the tongue. The Chocolate Portable HDD looks like a chocolate bar but that’s where the similarities end. Each piece of this high-tech chocolate is actually a modular flash drive. The central hub comprises of a touchscreen that helps you to view and organize your collective files.

Plunger Helmet is a device that is designed to protect you not while driving but while napping. If you have a habit of falling asleep on the train, you might easily get one to keep you steady. The plunger helmet looks like the typical helmet that construction workers use, but has a plunger attached to its back which keeps your head in place. The device is actually more helpful for your seat mates rather than yourself as it prevents you from swaying side to side. Even if you don’t need one yourself, you might keep one in stock for use on a drowsy seat mate.

it’s the gizmo eat-attack for all those tummy-chubby people!!A transparent toaster enables you to keep a watch on your toast even while you are rushing around to get things done. Armed with a transparent heating glass technology which allows one to see the bread while toasting, this novel innovation has been designed to assist millions of hapless eaters.

Another useful invention for people running forever short on time. The Electric Shoe Polisher Buffer Machine offers a new and easy way to have shiny looking shoes all day long without bothering to use manual labour. This funky gadget can polish and shine your shoes and boots, allowing you to keep your hands clean and save precious time

Finally a way out to hit your friend with a snowball before he finds time to turn his back and run away. The Sno-Baller can churn out large numbers of snowballs in seconds, even as your gloves stay drier and hands warmer. What’s more, you can fire away continually without ever being afraid of running out of stock! This device is a must for family and neighborhood snowball fights!

With newer items adding on to the roster every passing day, the list of weird gadgets and gizmos are growing continually.

INTERNET IN SPACE

8:21 AM / Posted by neelesh / comments (0)

Internet has become the most favorable means of information interchange on earth and now our scientists at NASA have found that this same setup can be used to relay information to and fro SPACE! Though the technology involved will be a little different as on earth the distance between any two points is not astronomically large but for two celestial bodies these distances matter a lot. Due to these distances I.P. which is used on earth cannot be used as the information will have certain lag between the information being passed. The technology being developed here is called the Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN). Remote control is very hard when you have a 40-minute round-trip time. DTN was developed to address this problem.

A delay-tolerant network is designed to move data across rough networks--networks that have long delays and noisy connections. Concept of DTN is "bundling," a mechanism for a space network's nodes--probes, relay satellites, and the like--to hold data if the next hop in the network is unavailable. Communications specialists call this a store-and-forward network. This approach contrasts greatly with how nodes handle data on the TCP/IP-driven Internet. An Internet router doesn't keep track of the packets it conveys, nor where they are going beyond the next hop. Only the computer at the endpoint of all this hopping knows that a packet has arrived (and sends the acknowledgment back through the entire chain).

A DTN router, in contrast, keeps a copy of every packet of data sent; at least until the next node has sent a message that it has received it. That scheme ensures that no data gets lost en route, even if a node is offline. Should a relay satellite along an interplanetary Internet slip behind the other side of a moon, a router on a DTN network would simply hold onto the data that needed to be transmitted until that satellite reappeared, or until another one came into position to provide the necessary hop.

While the new protocol is hugely inefficient by earthly standards, using up a lot of memory to hold duplicate copies of data and needing orders of magnitude more time to send complete messages, it is a surefire way to get data to its destination. And it has some other benefits for a device in outer space, which, after all, has other things to worry about besides communicating with Earth.

From the Chairperson's desk

8:17 AM / Posted by neelesh / comments (0)

From the Chairperson's desk

Deep Patel
Chairperson,
Indian Society for Tehnical Education,
V.E.S.I.T.

With each beginning comes a hope of a new change. We foresee some of these changes while some others are just wishes we yearn for. Nonetheless the vision that goes into launching a new venture is built on such an imagination of a few inspired individuals. This is the fuel that drives us at the VESIT students chapter of ISTE. At ISTE-VESIT, we derive our faculties from the motto, IMAGINATION IS POWER.
We are a year-old student body of the prestigious national organisation, ISTE and we believe that our driving force is our novel purview towards age old issues. Moreover we inherit a legacy of illustrious feats performed under various contexts at this dynamic institute. A strong foundation having been laid, the only way we know is to grow.
Our objectives are multifold and successful accomplishment of these would ensure that our members improve as individuals and as professionals. We trust our ethics and abilities to deliver the best pool of opportunities to outshine competition. We hope you, our members sieze these chances as we explore new ways to highlight your achievements before the nation.
The ISTE council invites you all to dream with us as we embark on this exciting journey. For no joy is greater than the anticipation of a dream coming true. It is this anticipation that made John Lennon croon "Imagine..." It is this anticipation that inspired Martin Luther King Jr. to change millions of lives. It is this anticipation that guarantees irrefutable, irrevocable success. And it is this anticipation we hope you share with us. Come, dream along.

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