My 64 days of life in CDAC

I joined FPGDST course at CDAC Bangalore on 6th August 2007. As I was new to the city, I had come a bit earlier i.e. a day before the joining. I made a special attempt to come earlier so that one day I could go around the city and familiarize my self with the city. Accordingly, I spent my day on 5th going around the city. I also visited to electronic city to have a look at the facilities that are available in the neighbor hood. I visited the hostel and various other locations.

On 6th I came in to CDAC at the scheduled reporting time i.e. in the morning at around 9 A.M. I was highly impressed by on that day by observing every thing was being done as per schedule indicating the importance being paid to the punctuality that was maintained in every task

At 10 A.M we had an inaugural lecture. The lecture was nice enough except for the harsh realities spoken in few words by Raman Sir which at that point of time seemed to discourage a fresher from pursuing the course. The words spoken were,” if any time you feel that you cannot cope up with the course you must leave and go”. The actual lectures were delivered on the right on the first day itself.

Right from the first day we had started implementing what we learned. Every thing had to be done on time. We could not be even a minute late for our tea or dinner or the only answer we would get is over form the person present there.

We had already started sitting at nights till about 1. Initially I found a lot of difficulty in sitting at night as I did not have the habit of sitting at nights. I used to work the whole day but would never wake up
at night. The reason for this was that I have migraine problem so it was suggested by the doctors to have ample sleep. But slowly I started adjusting and within a weeks time my sleeping time had changed from 10.30 in night to 1.

I had already done java in my graduation so initially I did not find difficulty in making small programs. But as the programs started getting complicated I some times would have the feeling that I would never be able to do those programs. The main reason for this was that my friends used to make those programs very quickly and it took me a lot of time thinking logic for these kinds of programs. The thing behind this was that we had never been doing such kind of programs before so it took some time before I got adjusted to such a level of programming.

By this time our MGPAS had started. I easily cleared my first MGPA. After this the trouble and a period of frustration started. I could not clear any MGPA from second to fourth. I felt so disappointed and often started feeling that I would never be able to see the magic figure of 4 MGPAS. But fortunately with God’s grace I could clear the next 3 MGPAS to reach the target figure and then I cleared one more. That made my total to 5. With the MGPAS running we also had maths exams and tcom evaluations. This was the first time in life that we were having such a lot of work load. There are still a lot of topics that I have still not covered and I am struggling to complete some subjects....

I have learnt a lot in this trimester. A lot about life..... And a lot to learn is still left in coming period

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Regards
Prashant Tandon
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My Future Dream...

Often a question comes in my mind what am I going to do in future? In the first instance life seems to be a dark tunnel. I then feel a ray of light appearing from the farthest end of tunnel. I always think that tunnel is equivalent to unknown part of life. At the end of the tunnel there is a source of light. This is the goal of the life. One has to move with the help of the ray of the light.

Our hard work and sincerity is nothing but this ray of light to achieve the goal. It is therefore of utmost importance to set the goal. Means can be found to achieve the goal. Efforts to achieve the goals are nothing but the means.

In line with the above philosophy I am trying to find the answer to the question I have put at serial number.

• I have set a goal to become successful man in life।

• To me success means not to be only a successful professional but also a person of set principle.

• For this I have set certain principles like truthfulness no-drinking, nonsmoking.

• I have tried to learn from the life of great people.

• On the professional front I want to be a successful entrepreneur.

• The route to be followed is first do internship with some leading concern.

The area of interest for me is software development. This is the reason for me to first pursue a carrier in Computer Applications. Subsequently, I have taken admission in this course. In the beginning I felt very uncomfortable in the atmosphere here. The schedule was very tight. The food was not of the kind we are used to. We have to put exceptionally long period in class and lab.

To me it seemed that I am cut off from the rest of the world. Slowly I started adjusting with the surroundings and life style. I started enjoying long period of working in the lab. Not only this I found that the feeling that though the names of course are repetitive there is a lot to learn. I have also become more confident now. The best thing I have found here is the method of communication. This method of communication is through blog writing.

I am hopeful that if I can complete the course successfully, search for the job shall be automatically over. In such an event of my becoming an entrepreneur after facing real life situation can be met. This will be coming out of tunnel to light. The light of joy and happiness which like any young man is also my dream. I request every one to pray the almighty for successful completion of the course to enable me to achieve my goal.

Youth....

An analysis is often carried out about the antecedents of the members of the winning team. On the analysis of the cricket team which won T20 world cup, it was found that a good number of members belonged to tier cities. Even the members of Metros belonged to lower and lower middle class cities.

Similar is the case of the winners/top ten members in various reality shows. One of the jury member of recently concluded popular show of Indian Idol has said again and again that the participation of the entire country has proved to be threat to the monopoly of the metros. As a matter of fact, it will be appropriate to say that the glory being achieved by the country in recent past is due to spread of awareness in tier II and tier III cities.

This is still to be spread to ton and village areas. The reason for awareness seems to be revolution in the field of communication. With the introduction of TV even at block levels, information has not remained the monopoly of a few.

Earlier the opportunities used to be grabbed by few powerful people. Since the persons representing in various fields were there not because of capability but because of resources, the country was lagging behind in all fields. Spread of means of communication like TV, telephone, internet has not only spread awareness but also has worked as binding force among different region. Through various TV serials, the constraint of language has been overcome. Respect for the tradition and values of different community are now being appreciated by one and all. All this has resulted in the cordial atmosphere in the society.

The children and youth being more adaptable have given a new direction to the country. As a result noticeable progress has been made in all areas. Number of persons living below poverty line has come down substantially.

There is tremendous creation of wealth in the country. A lot of this has been created by the youth who have come from urban background but belonged to lower middle class family. In spite of this the dream of our freedom fighters of making the country as Ramrajaya has remained unfulfilled.

The meaning of Ramrajya is a country where basic facilities are available to every one. Even today, there are many villages which are not connected by road There is no water, electricityand sanitation facilities in these places. There are no medical facilities. People go without food.

What is the solution? The solution lies in making the facilities to farthest end. How is it possible? It is possible by changing the attitude. Changing the attitude from living under any circumstances to live in the best. It is possible by increasing the expectation of one and all. For this efforts are to be made to follow the policy of involvement instead of exclusion. Involve the youth from all corners of the country in developmental work. Involve the youth in decision making. Evolve the feeling of belongingness. Develop team spirit.

This will give new direction top the country. There will be peace and prosperity in the country. New heights shall be achieved.

Blogging Habit

In this blog of mine I will like to bring light to one of the habits that I have learned from CDAC after joining the FPGDST course। I used to write blogs even when I had not come here. But the entire motive of those blogs was different form what it had been here.

Earlier I used to write blogs on some topics which were of my interest and some of those which were in my course. I would usually make some notes on the topics of my course and post them on my blog so that everyone in the class can benefit from those. We had various kinds of subjects like some were computer related, other were management related. I would always prefer to surf the net and make notes for the computer subjects and post them on my blog space from where everyone could just access them. I return I would take management subject notes from my friends. Also some times I used to write about some topics that interested me.

My blog writing was confined to just getting some interesting topic of my choice and then searching about it to increase my knowledge and then write my own views about it.

After coming here I followed the same practice of writing the blogs with topics that interested me by searching about them and writing my own views about those topics.

One fine day we had our MGPA(machine graded programing assignment test), after coming out of the exam hall I found that many students had gathered around the student notice broad. So naturally I also proceeded towards to find out what has happened. Our TCOM grades for the blogs evaluation had been put up. Mostly everyone was shouting that they had failed. I thought I might have passed in the subject as I had been doing this for quite long now. But to my surprise I had also got a FAIL grade.
Also along with the grade I had a remark stating that I had copied. Also the name of the web site from which I had taken the points of my last blog was written there.

Later in the evening I located my TCOM faculty and discussed with there that what was wrong with my blogs that I had completely failed in the entire evaluation. The only thing I was told that because I had copied something in even one of my blogs thats why the whole evaluation will be
considered as a big zero.

I felt so frustrated for failing in the evaluation even though I had not copied much as compared to my fellow colleagues some of whom had copied the entire pages. I also stood on the same ground as they were on.

Since then I thought of writing my blogs more sincerely and with some better topics. So that I may pass in my next evaluation. I chose some topics of interest and till now have written on them hoping for a good result, till one fine day we nearing our term-end and I happened to question my faculty that how many more blogs I have to write in order to satisfy the needs for the evaluation. The answer I expected from here was to be some particular figure. But the answer was 'You have to Write blogs all your life now so that the world will know you and know what You think.....'

I have read a lot of Raman sir's blogs. I am deeply impressed by the way he maintains his blogs even after a tight shedule and is able to convey his views to the world.

I would also like to inculcate such a blogging Habit in me so that people can know more about me....