Why I hate my Educational system?

I have few questions to those who designed the educational system..

No one is perfect so am I. Then why do you expect me to learn everything?

Ok I agree that my college has good professors. Everyone is specialized in certain fields. But Algorithm professor is not good at Multimedia systems. Wireless networks professor is not good at service oriented architecture. If they can choose what to teach, why can’t we choose what to learn?

Some students don’t like math from their childhood. Then why you insist mathematics in every semester?

Some students are very much good at designing. But you are insisting Service oriented architecture, Electronics devices and circuits to them. Why is it so?

Grade Point Average!!! What is it for? To judge a student that’s ok. How can you judge a student without knowing what is he capable of?

There are many sports players in our college. If they are not insisted with all these Engineering subjects they can even be an Olympic winner. Now you can ask then why they took Engineering. These students want Engineering as an extra knowledge. But your GPA system makes him his most loveable sport as his extra-curricular activity. Why your college system restricts student’s interest?

Why do the student who wins at National level Robotics competition gets an arrear in his “Applied thermodynamics” subject?

Why do half of the mechanical engineers get placed at IT industries? (I do have proof http://www.annauniv.edu/dme/index.asp)

Why don’t Google and Microsoft hire people with the qualification of GPA?

Ok.. Now you are about to ask do I have a solution?

Yes. I have few suggestions.


*If students can choose the subjects what he/she is interested in

*If students can learn whatever they like

*If professors acts as friends (very few are)

*If professors teach engineering and not the definitions in the text books

*If there are no written assignments and lab records

*If GPA is awarded based on practical applications

*If Professors support the student’s idea and creativity

*If HOD trusts the student

*If Laboratory hours are more than lecture hours

*If universities won't restrict the students to attend placements because of GPA lacking

If all these changes happen I like your educational system

CEG Birds

Main canteen, WIFI tree, Chemistry dept, SNH, Gallery, Thiruvalluvar statue, Gurunath stores, Mech dept..

wait.. by now you must get the connection between these places. These places are over populated only at un-peak hours. Yes, these are the best places for the birds to put kadalai. These birds usually occupy these places as fast as possible because these places are alloted in first come first serve manner.

Knowingly or unknowingly the girl bird will always arrive before the boy bird. So the boy bird should ask sorry everytime. As a punishment that innocent boy bird has to spend for whatever that girl bird eats.

I seriously still can't figure out what a boy bird and girl bird can speak for 4 hours continuously. As far as I know there are only stuffs like movies, songs, studies and food which are common between these birds. I think those birds discuss about politics, Indian economy, India 2020 and Global warming. Even Abdulkalam can't talk 4 hours continuously.

Starting at 7AM in the morning other than class hours till 2AM these birds discuss over phone seriously. They start with questions like "ate huh? what ate?.. oh.. I ate briyani, chicken in our mess :P " which continues as "Our mess food is the worst food. Lets go out somewhere for dinner" and so on. Then suddenly the girl bird starts to tell some great stories which the boy bird don't even cares. Bored of it, the boy bird again starts to discuss about F1 race, Horse race and all and that girl bird gets bored. So both of these birds got bored and by now they must cut the line. But they won't. They look around what's around them and start talking about it. In most cases, the boy bird's room mate acts as an object for those birds to discuss and lollifying. Dei itha mattum niruthungadaaa please :@ :@

How to get started with topcoder algorithm competitions?

Prerequisites :

You need the experience of solving 2 problems in any online judge (like Sphere Online Judge (SPOJ), Lightoj, Codeforces) in any programming language of your choice. That will give you an idea about how are your programs tested online. After getting some idea about how online judge works, you can very well start with Topcoder.

Getting into Topcoder Arena :

1) Register at TopCoder and login.
2) Download this applet : Topcoder arena.

3) Install JDK.

4) Now open the applet. It will download some updates and start the applet. You can now practice and compete!
5) If you face any Java security issues, follow these steps

You can know the timings of SRMs at Topcoder events calendar.

More about SRM :

Topcoders are divided based on their rating as Grey coders(Beginners), Green coders, Blue coders, Yellow coders and Red coders(PRO's). Coders are divided into two categories Division 1(where Red, Yellow and Blue coders compete) and Division 2(where Grey and Green coders compete). You can register for an SRM from 3 hours before the contest time to 5.01 minutes before the contest time. There are two phases in an SRM

1) coding phase 2) challenging phase. More explanation can be seen here.

Your base rating is 1200. Your rating changes according to your performance in SRMs.

You can get a complete idea of rating by looking at these graphs

venkateshb's graph, cegprakash's graph, dcp's graph

You can see your graph by typing the replacing your username in the above link.

Hope this post helps! Have a happy coding!

For more..
http://topblogcoder.com/tutorials/how-to-begin-in-topcoder
http://thevc.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/getting-started-on-topcoder/

Odd vs Even semesters at CEG

Odd semester Life

• is when you get more number of treats and birthday bumps
• is when you feel Saturdays and Sundays are boredom
• is when you sit opposite to Vivek audi from 8pm to 9pm
• is when you feel mess food sucks
• is when you start studying even before 2 days of exams
• is when you refresh the homepage of facebook again and again for no reason
• is when you admire at freshers enjoyment at AGNI
• is when you spend most of the time on FIFA, Counterstrikers or DotA
• is when you crave for next semester

Even semester Life

• is when you never sleep before 1AM
• is when you spend more money for Egg briyani and Egg dosa
• is when you think Techofes + Kurukshetra > 10.0 GPA
• is when you stare at your crush came in saree
• is when you feel Educational system sucks
• is when you sleep frequently at boring hours
• is when you get more number of OD's & proxy attendances
• is when you download benchmate notes for last night preparation
• is when you get closer to many seniors and juniors
• is when you work in a team with unity
• is when you dream as you are a hero every night

Addiction to PC games

Dear girls.. if a guy pauses a video game just to text you back, marry him!

In my words the definition for addiction is a thing which gives entertainment without which one can't eat, can't sleep, can't relax, can't enjoy and so on. Such a thing for me was the World of Warcraft III, The Frozen Throne.

To the people who laughs at me playing this game..

Warcraft III is

• The #3rd most played game in the world with 12 Million players worldwide
• The #7th best real-time Strategy game in the world
• The #1st best selling strategy game in 2011
• The #4th most addictive games ever
• The #1st Massive Multiplayer online Strategy game

The game is not just a war game. Then what you learn from this game?

• Positive attitude
• Team work
• Co-ordination
• Sacrifice
• Timely action
• Never to give up

When you play this game

• you forget where you are
• you forget all the things happened in the real world.. everything!!

After playing it

• you feel relaxed
• you get back to whatever your job is with full of interest

Now some of you are thinking to say that this is not the only game with which we can get all these entertainment.

Blizzard entertainment answers to this:

Twelve Million people can't be wrong. Try it!

Some of you are gonna leave reading this and I know it. So I conclude this with what I think of game addiction.

If you are addicted to PC games, you will experience a great difference in your life. You start not to worry about anything around you like your dreams, your job, your family, your friends, your school, your college.. you will be slowed down and never think of what the time is, what the day is. If you experience any of the above symptoms don't touch your PC for a week. For the first two days it seems very hard without it. But you'll realize what you really missed in the real world. There are lot of funs and entertainments in the real-world rather than PC games. So shut the **** up! I'm quitting WARCRAFT III!