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tryst wid Google :)
hi all,
been wanting to post about this for a long time, found the time only now..
whew, wat a week tat was.. got a mail saying Google is looking for interns from my coll.. sent my resume and the phone interviews were scheduled for april 20..
only one took place on april 20, the other was rescheduled to april 23, but i never got that call.. maybe they dint want to waste time on me after tat miserable performance in round I 
i was asked only 2 questions.
snip snip!!! questions deleted after hearing that one of my seniors got a mail from Google asking him not to put up questions on blogs..
Got the expected ‘NO’ on last friday.. and wasnt feeling that bad about it until i read that ‘Programming pearls’ book.. oh gawd!! both questions were in that book, with different solutions.. had wanted to read that book for some time now, but WHY dint i read it before Google’s interview?!! atleast i could have received a second call.. Duh!
So, thats two down– versata & google. Seems Microsoft is coming for interns next month.. lets see if i am third time lucky.. 
cheers,
anusha
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SoP – week II
hi there..
hmm.. i started this ‘SoP -week’ set of updates so that these wud make me serious once in a while.. but to no avail.. i still spend time wid some simple spoj prob, code an outrageous solution, get a WA and switch off the system .. 
Many companies were rumoured to come for interns but i guess i am simply not prepared for placements.. shd spend the time properly..
not to mention this fyp ‘thedal’ as mam put it.. heard the word virtualization somewhere and have already started dreaming abt the future of my fyp.. the truth is i am simply doing everything i can to avoid searching for this (like updating my blog when i am to meet tomorrow with 2 ‘proposals’ !!! 
)
ok, must get going.. and results will be out any time now (shudder!!) Easily my worst sem .. and like all other semesters, this sem again i’ll really work hard towards getting some really good gpa..!! 
cheers,
anusha
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logged on!!
hi all,
am back from trichy.. and as usual my fyp mate has some other work to do, and we cant meet mam today and my mother is scolding me for pestering her to return by today
and have logged on immediately… created my visual portfolio at imagini.. will paste the html here, let’s see if it works:
Read my VisualDNA™ Get your own VisualDNA™
ok, u only get the link, the full page is not shown.. follw the link 
went thro let us c++ by yk.. was good, have to do ira pohl, then have to read python, weiss, tanenbaum, os, dbms, revise the prog langs, read ajax (simply becos i like the name ) and much more.. and install fedora.. whew!!
lets c what i can do..
cheers,
anusha
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SoP – week I
yup, a worst performance in c# signalled the end of semester 6 and the start of perhaps the most important hols in my college life..
and one of the ambitious plans is to do a grp study at coll.. had one session on monday, which we spent on reading the known probs in dp chapter of cormen… but have postponed all preps to next week and am starting to trichy tonight..
the annual religious trip to trichy.. gonna see oppiliappan, sri renganathar (two of my fav gods ), samayapuram and madurai meenakshi, if possible..
catch ya later
cheers,
anusha
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last one b4 exams..
hi,
comin back after a long time i guess.. have been busy with mipt for two days.. solved 24 as of now, much more to do..
finally all project submissions are over .. got an A+ for our ‘alien invasion’ XNA game.. and semester starts from this thursday.. two days to go
meanwhile i have started looking at interview questions for placements and internships.. pretty interesting thing to do, too bad i dint start last summer.. there is simply so much to learn..
just came online to receive birthday wishes.. yup, turned twenty today.. year of placement.. should get into a DJ
happy bday to me!!
MS questions calling me..
cheers,
anusha
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that versata intern question
found this on the net.. Haroon sayed’s blog:
public void PrintInSpiral(int [][] numbers, int size)
{
for(int i = size – 1 , j = 0 ; i >= 0 ; i–, j++)
{
for(int k = j ; k < i; k++)
Console.Write(numbers[j][k]+ ” “);
for(int k = j ; k < i; k++)
Console.Write(numbers[k][i]+ ” “);
for(int k = i ; k > j; k–)
Console.Write(numbers[i][k]+ ” “);
for(int k = i ; k > j; k–)
Console.Write(numbers[k][j]+ ” “);
}
}
if the array has a rank of 4 and contains elements as follows.
1 , 2 , 3 , 4
5 , 6 , 7 , 8
9, 10 , 11, 12
13, 14, 15, 16
then the output should be 1 2 3 4 8 12 16 15 14 13 9 5 6 7 11 10. So run the above code and do dry run it on any N*N array 
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cheers,
anusha
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time to get seriousss…
the title should be clear enough.. most classes of sixth sem ended today..
have 3 lab exams next week from mon to wed and semester starts on april 19.. this sem is easily the worst in 3 years, my internals are all well below what i had in prev sems.. very poor performance.. would attribute it to my unwavering overconfidence
well, more than anything else, this is the pre placement sem, this gpa would be taken into account for placement cgpa.. so am looking at nothing short of 9.5 ( atleast fantasizing as of now..) Managed to get an A+ for the chatbot submitted for web tech project.. gr8 team effort
still have graphics, C# and graph projects to do.. that wud keep me occupied this weekend..
cheers,
anusha
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blah blah..
am back after a loong time..
third assess is goin on and have scored the least possible marks in the second assesss .. wonder why i have lost that seriousness and become so over confident, especially in this pre-placement sem.. wonder where this attitude will take me in three months’ time.. ( 
)
but speaking abt the projects i have moaned about for a long time in my blog, most of them are near completion:
my graph proj computer chess seems to be a minor hit with the other girls of my class, even though its still buggy and only 20 % of the computer part is complete… ( ) hope we put on a good show b4 mam on tues.. this weekend will be spent on that, i suppose.. and as of now, jus planning to find code for graphics proj from the net ( ).. shouldnt be difficult ( ).. and the Chat Bot i did in the fifth sem hols will be my web tech proj.. am really angry at having had to use all those nice ideas for such sem projects 
..should spend this summer on doing something really big..
*wrote this post simply bcause i hadnt come here in a long time..
cheers,
anusha
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just the routine update..
well, am back after more than a week i think.. finally this second assess is coming to an end tomorrow [ reminds me, should go and learn xml.. ]
whew, what a week this has been.. so much for this final year project which we will be doing in the next two semesters..looked up something about swarm intelligence and ant colony optimization for the proposal that i am to submit tomorrow.. am not sure if it will be accepted, but anyways.. its my fault, should have started looking up ideas as soon as i heard ppl were looking for teammates..
and coming to those other 6th semester projects, well, two more have been added to the list.. we now have graph theory(computer chess.. i think mam is pretty satisfied with the topic.. she gave us a chance to redo the second phase report rather than giving the ZERO it deserved;) ), graphics and multimedia (my idea is sure to be rejected:D ), digital signal processing (gonna borrow from the it people, one week is the given time..), web technology (am happy about this one, i know jsp.. ) and C#.Net (Xbox game.. to be shown by march 12th ).. hmm..should complete them all..not like the toc project i did last year around this time.. i got a (very poor) 11 , even though i had started looking it up about one month before..
so thats about it.. should get hold of a nice faculty (read one with a PhD).. march 9 is the deadline for submission of proposals.. hope everything goes on well…cant take it if life at ceg ends with a project under any other teacher [ ]
and now to dive into XML…
cheers,
anusha
p.s. i just changed my theme..this new one is called ‘dusk’..
p.s.II i googled ‘anusha r blog wordpress’..this page dint turn up .. wonder who will find this out unless i disclose the link
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adieu, NCC…
march 18, 2007.. i have completed my three years with the 4[TN] Naval Technical Unit, Anna University.. let me recollect those never-again-in-life opportunities i had as a naval cadet..
2004 -
the admission form in my hand had a column for extra curricular activities and students had to choose one. one of the options was ‘Ncc Navy (for girls)’ .. i had no idea about the NCC at that time..i just imagined being taken to visit ships and ticked it on an impulse.. the girl next to me (Srividya.. ) said that NCC would be tough and that NSS would be less straining.. before i could think again (thankfully ), i was called to the front and directed to the NCC table (and only in my third year did i realise the efforts that went into this recruitment drive..). was happy to see my school senior (Prasanna anna) there.. he asked me the reason for choosing NCC ..and as usual i just smiled in rply, thinking it would be too childish to say ‘i thought i would be taken to visit ships’ he just smiled back and let me go..
the day was a friday , the last day of the 3 day orientation for freshers..the announcement said that all students willing to join the NCC had to report at 8 the next day near the NCC unit..was happy to learn that my schoolmate Sarada (later, the GI topper) had taken NCC too..(it later turned out that i was one of the very few who had taken NCC without knowing what the routine was.. ) . We were asked to run around the ece dept (one of the regular routes for warmup for the next two years).. dont know how i was able to hold my own that day, without having been interested in any kind of sport right from school.. thinking it over, there have been numerous occasions where i have held on to the NCC without just coming out.. wonder why!!
then started the 20 parade year- uniforms issued, basic commands were taught, the usual “punishments” (until now it has been ‘run until the eee dept and come back’ and i guess it wont change in the near future too ), “absenteeism will be dealt with severely” (heard the word for the first time here ) , the breakfasts at the canteen (yummmy.. ), the technical classes (we had a lot of them as first years, when compared to later batches.. our fault?), the cultural activities before these classes (again, something which has not been held since – thanks to our ex – CO? ), the punishments i received for absenteeism – twice: sep 11 and jan 30 or 31 ( i dint even know there was a parade going on.. lol), the RD parade practice in the evenings before jan26, the visit to INS Rajali at arakonam, the ATC camp period, firing (one of my favorite activities) and finally the 8th NTAC- Naval Technical Attachment Camp 2005 ..
the NTAC is the highlight of NCC Navy.. the preparations must have begun as early as january ,but our first muster about this was in march.. suddenly our third years were not there and second years seemed to be in charge ( i never knew until much later that the third years’ tenure had ended ). we were taken for the reservation on a tuesday in april.. it was raining heavily that day.. i came back fully drenched to attend the evs assess.. we had our CO’s briefing on april 15th evening.. of course, i was more worried about my semester which began on may 6 and was wondering why everybody was so serious about a camp that was more than a month away ..
then came the semester holidays.. a 10 day gap before the camp began.. throughout march and april we had been told about the physical activities at the camp and asked to practice seriously.. i had planned quite a few things like walking upto the station everyday, etc .. finally i ended with having a half an hour skipping session for a month as my preparation for the camp..
NTAC 2005 – may 30 to jun 14 – ND(V) and INS Shivaji (Lonavla) – my NCC notebook would give a more detailed account of the happenings, so i will write a separate post about the wonderful time i had at the camp..
and after camp, it was ’shramdhan’ (cleaning), inspection of the unit ( who could forget the ‘flag areas’ done by the SW ) it was the most wonderful time in all my three years .. just our seniors and us.. not to mention ‘Operation Agnikand’, a play about first aid and fire fighting, conceived by our CO and CCs(i guess) and enacted before the Group Commander.. he liked it so much that we staged it once again before the DDG of our directorate..
we had to do the ID parade without first years, as their counseling was also delayed like our batch was.. then came the recruitment and selection, the same 20 parade routine, though we dint seem to have as many parades or activities as we had in our first year..poor batch, they dint get a chance to do firing or attend ATC or visit INS Rajali..but they did get a chance to sail on board INS Amba , something we did only in our camp.. One of the most enjoyable events was the Boat Pulling event we went for in Dec 2005.. with just our seniors and CO..what a wonderful time it was.. Jan 2006 was hectic as usual, with RD practice. We had our B certificate exam in Feb 2006, followed by C certificate for seniors in march.. and before i knew it, we were called to the unit and the camp preference list announced..!! thus began the preparations for NTAC 2006…
NTAC 2006 – deserves a special post, complete with pictures
finally, my third year with NCC.. the same routine, only this time i had to be on the other side, facing the cadets .. We had inspection sometime in August and enacted the same Operation Agnikand.. we were taken to IIT almost every evening to practice and it was just great.. the mistakes we kept doing after so many rehearsals, the way we kept substituting new people every rehearsal.. finally they ended up with a ‘not so good’ performance on the D Day at IITM on Aug 25.. the second years cadets who were not willing to continue for the second year officially had this as their last parade (though almost all of them decided to bid adieu without prior notice much before this parade..)
we had an anti-tobacco awareness campaign (oct 2006) and firing early in the year (sep 2006).. but try as much, we just couldnt accomodate a visit to INS Rajali in the routine.. Boat pulling was held in Dec 2006, but i couldnt attend as i was at coimbatore then, participating in the Asia Regionals of ACM ICPC…
Jan was taken up by the rifle drill for RD, and we being third years, managed to stay away from rifle drill .. that has been one area best left to the SD .. But then we third years managed to stay out of all warm ups, punishments (most of them) and drill of any sort..something our seniors never did . Then came the B certificate training for the second years and after that.. this thursday, friday when we had classes for C certificate, followed by our practical exam yesterday and written today..
it was an atmosphere of celebration when we mustered at the unit after the exam.. SD lifting their Cadet Captains by their arms and kickingthem , cadets taking photographs with the DK Whalers of the unit, the Group Commander’s black ambassador , someone collecting everyone’s email ids..
the Group Commander, Group Captain A K Singh spoke for a few minutes about the strength of these relationships and how we should nurture them .. we met all the PI staff ( who are almost always scolding on the parade ground and turn out to be a great help during the exams, be it written or practical ) and with a final snap covering the unit, came out of the unit..
we might have a muster this week to properly hand over to our juniors.. and then my last visit would probably be when i return my uniforms..
i wouldnt have any more of those saturday parades, no more 8As, no firing, no namelists, no canteen letters, no more evening musters.. suddenly i would have time for everything i had wanted to do ( more time with acm, mipt, etc.. ). Nothing would come close to all those wonderful moments i had had as an NCC cadet.. but since my class overlooks the unit, i would be seeing most of the musters, i guess..
the show must go on… and it will..
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