It’s (not) Alright

I so wish to write the part 2 of my lost article… about Sayeed, Jin, Penny and Desmond, Charles and Ben… Claire and Jack… Kate but because of many reasons, I have not been able to do so and all of them are here in the heading.

I have got my internal exams from 20th to 22nd. I have not studied at all, but I can’t keep on writing like this… else I will surely PHAIL. :p Then we have some guests (dad’s sister and her husband) here so… Party on Dude…

Besides that, my friend finally got me those AVRs. I did a simple LED blink S/W and then jumped (too high) to a binary clock. And made a mess of it. Finally, I ended up building the circuit on a general purpose board and wasting 2 days in it. But it WORKS! I am feeling good…

Outcome of this all is, I have to read 300 pages today (such that I will be able to write in paper) then 300 tomorrow, then about 250 the next and then only a 100 on 21st. (HUGE backlog)… So, I am off till 23rd of this month… Seeya.

Aditya

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After what seemed like a not so long holiday, the college has begun again. Finally I am in the third year of electronics engineering, bachelors degree course. As usual I don’t like to attend lectures… any one of them. BUT, this year, the subjects are a lot interesting (or so they seem for now) than the last year.

I had been busy with results, admissions, gearing up for college, etc. I will come back with some more things to post about, but right now, I don’t have any content.

I will be back with something. I had also been busy with watching Prison Break. Finally I got the hold of seasons 2 and 3. And I completed season 2 in a 2 day marathon and 3 in a 2 day marathon, but with a little rest. the series rocks. Definately on my favorites list now…

Next might be 24, X-Files or something like that… Prison Break and Smallville returning September… Looks like good times ahead…

Aditya

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Finally the painful period of the 10 everlasting days has ended with quite a positive note. I can say that except the first paper which was crash and burn, I did pretty well in the remaining papers.

As usual, I thought that the first paper, actually the subject was easy. In fact it is very easy, but the problem was I took it too lightly and missed out on 2 very VERY simple formulas. Mixed them up and it cost me 10 marks. That was really crash and burn. Even the crash in Lost looked pale in front of it. But I am confident that I will pass it.

As for the rest of the papers, the first one worked as a wake up call and the next 3 papers were very good, except for my usual silly mistakes where I knew the answer, but thinking that “So easy and 8 marks?”, I did experiments and I fear that it will cost me marks.

The last paper also, I took very lightly. I feared that it will be bad, but my ‘purvapunyai’ (all the good deeds I did (:-|) in the past) helped me out and I emerged with a good paper. Now it is time for enjoyment. All the work that I had to leave behind like the website project, a new project I am starting with Tushar Gokhale. (Or atleast we are saying that we will). Plus I am learning python. Many things to do. More and more blog post to follow.

I am soon going to write about the configuration or rTorrent and little info about irssi also. Once I am through with conky, I will write about that too. Keep watching the space for updates.

Aditya

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Whoa… you might be wondering what am I writing a post with such a title right after my exams… It is not that the exams went bad or something, but I really am amazed at what can happen.

I went to the exam dreading of a particular experiment. It took us 11 people and 2 batches of 2 hours each to finish it when we first performed it. It was the RC Coupled Amplifier with a negative voltage series feedback.

Now a little flashback. Last semester we had a subject, called Electronic Devices and Circuits. In that we had to perform a practical on a sinngle stage RC coupled amplifier. And just before the start of the practical exam, my friend had said that Aditya (me) is the only one who can perform that in oral. And (curse his bad tongue), I had to perform that practical last year. It was the largest experiment. I somehow succeeded in fooling the examiner and did a little scam with the readings and came out as topper in the class. Continue reading »

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