My College days - 4th year

Prologue

Note: Before reading this blog, you must go through this one My College days -3rd year

Story!

I am now in my Final Year of engineering course. In our class everyone is big now and so we have less number of subjects and so more time for case studys & projects. We are supposed to submit a term paper by the end of our first semester and  a project work is awaiting for the next semester. All this is to be done as a team and not in single. So our class is divided into teams  and because of this only our class boys and girls got some interaction. Here is my team with whom I should work further.

Y3CS265 - Sandeep Kolli

Y3CS279 - Sowjanya Tadepalli

Y3CS285 - Sruthi Chandaluru

Y3CS319 - Sneha Jain

Team mentor would be VKR - Vuyyuru Krishna Reddy

A list of topics were kept at our notice board and we need to choose one for our case study. We opted for "Image Compression Techniques". Every week we need to give a presentation on how much we proceeded on the case study.

All this would happen only with the help of  internet and so I convinced my parents to get a computer and net connection at home.We used Google search to collect the information and yahoo chat will help to do the work as a team. The day before to give the presentation I used to prepare the slides, when i get any doubt I used to check with Sandeep. After completing the presentation I used to take a deep breath and circulate the same to everyone in the team. Next day I will explain the slides to the team at lunch session. Before that Sneha would check with me weather I had completed the ppt and used to assure me not to worry on how the presentation would happen that day. Every one in the class used to wait for Sneha's turn to come to give the presentation. She used to make a lot of comedy on the dais.

We are done with the term paper. Completed the formatting as per the mail sent by our HOD( SV ). We ordered it for printing and book is ready. We need to get it signed by our HOD now. Some print mistake on the book cover which we noticed only before entering HOD's room. He completed our VIVA and about to sign the book. Oh my god tiger SV noticed that mistake on the cover. He shouted us but gave us one day time to get it corrected. Finally Term paper was submitted successfully under the supervision of VKR by our team though some confusion has happened at last moment. 

Internet at home should be utilized well by students, but that rarely happens as students like to chat and spend lot of time on networking websites. Same happened with me too. I already had a job in my hand and so two horns already on my head always saying enjoy now, enough of studies. I started spending lot of time on Orkut. 15K were my scraps count. Special one's like 1000th, 5000th, 10000th were done by Swathi. Sometimes me and swathi use to chat in orkut instead of yahoo to increase our scrap count. Because of Orkut & Yahoo I was able to make some friends in boys also. We are in scraps mania while many of my classmates are busy preparing for GRE/GATE. That year Chandana, Sujana and Swathi had presented me a hand made greeting card which resembles my orkut profile. It was very beautifully done and still it is safe with me now. 

My mom was vexed up with my internet usage. She gave me two options;

One - preparing for GRE and go for higher studies

Two - Getting married after my fourth year.

First I felt option '1' is better, but god GRE preparation means I have to by-heart a book full of meanings. I got the GRE book. On day one I learned my first 100 meanings. Day two I need to start from 101 but I forgot all the day one's learning. I then decided option '2' is better and gave-up my GRE studies. From then I used to admire Usha's brain for remembering so many meanings.

Added to internet addiction, I had Sony Ericsson W550i mobile in my hand which was a gift from my parents. It was like "a coconut in a monkeys hand". I loved listening songs and even singing them too. I used to download latest songs into my mobile and enjoy the music when ever free time in the classroom also. I also had an experience where I was caught by a lecturer in the class for listening to songs during his lecture. Still our batch of seven enjoyed the same way as in third year. Bunking classes & going to movies on the release date are the additional things we had learned this year.   

Our final year project time has come now. Me and Sandeep went to Vision technologies to get some project ideas. We selected our project to be as JAVA IDE. We will get the project kit also if we pay 6000 bugs. It contains every thing Abstract, Documentation, Flow-charts, Use case diagrams, Test cases, Code...etc. I improvised this kit a lot. I completely scraped the code given and started developing it my-self as I had good interest on coding. All Diagrams, test cases were re-done according to my new code. It came out quite well than the one provided by Vision. Sandeep used to help me in reviewing my work and other things as he is not much interested in the coding stuff. We need to give weekly presentations here also. I tried involving Sowjanya and Sneha also where ever possible. Finally we are done with and submitted our project successfully. This time our HOD was VKR. Every thing went on smoothly this time.

I sold out my improvised project kit for 3000 bucks at Vision. They did not agree to pay more than that because the whole idea of JAVA IDE belongs to them. Ok I am convinced. But after all this process Sandeep owed me 500 bucks and Swathi is the witness. So dear Y3CS batch if any one helps me getting that 500 will get half of the share :-).

Regards

Sruthi

Epilogue

Farewell day was the most memorable day. Every one attended in a traditional wear ofcourse for boys itz not possible. Sujana received MISS CSE title. Lecturers and juniors organised the event very well. Every thing I remembered during my college days makes me happy except that, the time wasted by me on Orkut. I could have utilized that time in a better way.