Semester III

Takshashila

The compulsory course work was done in first two semesters and we had to work on a project for one year during Sem III and IV. One could choose some audit subjects but need to fulfil attendance and marks criteria to get a course certification.
Plenty of free time, and only one project to concentrate on. Initial months of Sem III wasted in just browsing some of the technical journals and papers. My guide was busy all the time and I got little guidance from him.
When asked, he would say,  "come up with your own subject for project" and I had no clue.
I finally converged on some project which involved some baseband processor implementation on Xilinx FPGA.It was no new thing and I was not good at it.

Ravi, Girish, Vamshi, Sujit , Bala and me were given computers in Takshashila.

I should mention one of my friend Shiva - "Cycle Chain". Thats his DC++ ( s/w for lan sharing ) name.He spent most of his time in sharing and organizing downloaded music, movies and videos.
( My roommate Ravi comments that he spends time in copying and renaming them with his tag and then share them :P )
I should also mention about one of my best buddies - Sujit Jos.

Sujit and Me

Famously been called as SJ for his PJs and the tricks. Our friendship started from a misunderstanding and after exchange of words over some petty issue. This guy is great source of enthusiasm and one would never get bored in his company.One of the Einstein minds with around 6-10 IEEE papers published during the M..Tech course. This number is greater than what Ph.D students would publish. He is a great fun-lover, Badminton player and a martial arts student. Hope he teaches one of his Nun-Chakoo techniques to me someday. :)

We daily go to our respective labs in Takshashila at around 9AM, browse internet for an hour or so and have tea break for half an hour and browse internet again and go for lunch break.

After lunch break, take a nap, come back to labs at around 3 pm browse and then have some more tea.

My Desk @ MSPC lab in Takshashila

I only remember more of tea breaks in labs than the work we did :)

Age of Empires was the next time consuming activity at campus.
During this semester we started preparing for the placements which would come at the end of SemIII.
We formed a small group among ourselves and started conducting mock test and interviews which helped us a lot in final placements.

-Vish