21 February 2006

Project rant

Since I am doing engineering (in the final year), I have to do projects. The good (or bad) thing though, is that we can do the project in college, or in any company. So, I can’t do the project in a company, coz we don’t really have even 3 months. And it is so not possible to cope up with 4 subjects (yes, we have 4 subjects in the last semester!), AND do a project. So we have to do it in college itself. All that I have to do now is to decide on what subject to do it in, and then decide what to do in that subject.

So I am trying for a project from 3 weeks, and still nothing has been finalized. My group had decided on a nice project. We thought that we could do this one. Then we find out that the seniors have already done a project on the same lines. So we can’t do it. And we are right back where we started from. Now this is really irritating, coz we were one of the first groups who started searching (and researching, apparently) for projects, and now we have nothing.

Ughh this is so complicated. I was so happy when I found out that we had only 4 days of college. But looks like I’ll be busy all days in a week because of this.

Oh, and “eternal sunshine of the spotless mind” was coming on TV a few days back. So, I thought of watching it coz of the reviews that it has got. Jam Carrey even said that his best performance was in this movie. So anyway, I started watching it, and there was a power cut. So I’ve seen the movie, except for 15 minutes in the middle. And I have not understood the movie. Makes no sense at all. But it did seem similar to vanilla sky, like raj said. It was not funny. When Jim Carrey is in a movie, I expect it to be funny!

43 comments:

XVSA013 said...

those final yr projects are totally useless ... trust me.

greensatya said...

(It is now 4 hours of my meeting and totally exhausted and commenting right from the conference room. )

I agree with Mowgli, those final year projects are like that only.If you project was similar to your seniors then you could have just changed the wording of the objectives or even used few jargons and it could have gone through..hehe..

greensatya said...

And the story of 'ESSM'

Carrey mets Winslet- both fall in love- found out one day that they were earlier in a relationship and had cleansed their memory- as fate would have it they met again

okay,

Freeze said...

[mowgli]
lol, yeah. i knw. but still. i get marks for it.

[greensatya]
commenting frm conference room? wow.

and we DID change the name of the proj. then when ma'am asked us what the proj does, we told her. she told us that a "similar" proj was done before and that we cant do it.

i understood what the story is. i dint get the point of the movie, and whats the big deal abt the movie.

killer is i said...

haan ji
look ... let me tell ya reason that u r not able to do final yr pro ...
all grls in a grup ... NO guys ...
ask some guy to b in grup like "a"...
and wat happened to ye IEEE pro ,ha ha ha ...
now do 1 thing ... ask yr frnd frm other colls to take some pro of seniors .. which is already done .. u knw wat i mean
and eternal sunshine of the spotless mind ... it is one of 4 movies i m downloading

Freeze said...

[killer]
coz of no guys ? thats dumb.
IEEE proj? huh?

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. dont see it. u wont unedrstand anything. :p

killer is i said...

see .. u need brains to understand gud movies .. .
and pplz like u can understand all bakwass crap only :p

Freeze said...

[killer]
like u can understand everything! HA!

killer is i said...

i will ...
let me dwnload and watch ...
m not dumbo like u :p .. he he

Freeze said...

[killer]
w/e

killer is i said...

ha ha ha ...
matlab its true ..lolz ..
u accepted dat :p

Sara said...

u r complaining of 4 subjects and 1 project while we had 6 subjects and one project...so u r not in a really bad situation :)

regarding project...we did urs only in the last week of the semester...considering the general attitude of the professors in mechanical department...that was a little too much...

and then again they dont really matter...use some words and phrases that would make them feel that u know the subject (get to know a little on the subject too...and also the internal and external examiners...) then u r thru...(i got 90% for doing nothing ;))

Raj said...

I too had six subjects in the final sem. And tihs project is a s/w project, right? If yes then its no big deal :P

If its not, I don't know anything about it :)

ESOSM is not that difficult to understand!

Didn't you think that Jim Carrey looked like a normal human for the first time in the movie?

Akanksha said...

havent seen ESOSM so no comments abt that!
but now just to appear inte i'll hav to watch it ;D

Freeze said...

[sara]
I'm complaining, coz our seniors had only one subject and a project. so compared to that, this is sooo much!!

hehe, thanks. will do that! and some of our internals are cool. depends whom i'l get alloted to.

[raj]
no, i'm doing a h/w project. not that tough... thanks anyways :)

ESOSM- i've understood it, but like i already said, i dont know y it is SO good.
and yeah, jim carrey looks too normal.

[akanksha]
yeah, watch it. :)

greensatya said...

I hope one day you will understand what ESSM is all about ;)

One project and one subject !! which college is this ? I wanna do engg again. :p

Freeze said...

i have to watch the movie again, to b sure as to what it is.

u wud want to do engg again, but that was LAST year. NOT now. now there are 4 subjects! :)

Y said...

That movie is a green satya fav. I have not read the comments but he sure wud have something to say.

Regarding projects...I bought the project. There was one shop in Chandigarh run by a 'jobles', who used to help the students this way. If u r looking at software projects, the web is full of it.
I with no knowledge of C++, designed an operating system based on that. Well, thats what my resume states and ironically no one doubted that I didnt make it. If u want the same. Look for a book operating system design and implementation by Andrew S Tannenbaum. The CD in there has the full code and the executable file.

Or if u r in electronics, buy a radio control car and disfigure it, tinker with it somewhat and your project is ready. Just make sure it is disfigured to an extent that it does not look manufactured by a company. Thats how the folks in the electronic dept readied their projects.

killer is i said...

hey freeze ..
don't lie ...
u din't understood nething frm dat movie ... liar ....
and abut project..now even i don't have any project :( .. :( .. :((
hey ANYONE plz gimme some project ..
My branch is IT ....

Y said...

Hey Killer is you.
you can search for a book 'Java by example'. It has a black cover.

Its a part of 'by example' series.

There you'll find a CD where stock market project is developed in Java for small investors. Its pretty cool.
And it looks real in the sense that a student could definitely develop it.

Freeze said...

[sher]
we can buy projects here too. and i wud have brought it too, but one of my frnd does not want to buy it. she wants to do somethin on her own, so thats what we are doing.

this Tannenbaum guy is pretty famous huh. i had a networking text written by him

yeah, am in electronics. we've decided on a proj using microcontroller. thanks anyways! :). i shud have updated that i already decided on a proj today.

[killer]
looks like yr prayers have been answered!

killer is i said...

thanx Sher-e-Jalandhar
thats gud idea ..
but i guess teacher must hav seen dat pro..coz its available in cd which comes wid book
neways ...thanx a lot ... i will definately look out for dat pro.
hor sunao .. kiddan?

Abhinav said...

I also had 6 subjects and a project ... well whatever u do in ur project is secondary what matters is how u project ur project that matters the most.. in short presentation...As its an all grls grp then i do not see there is gonna be any problems in presentation :D..Atleast this is what happened in our college..we did the hard work and the grls grp walked away with the highest marks for just reading few lines :(

XVSA013 said...

so ... how is the project coming along ...

Koi Pahailee said...

happens...happens

Freeze said...

[abhinav]
presentation huh? okie! will do it properly!

hey and thats not fair!just coz its an all grls grp, does not mean we'll get good marks!

if u had done SUCH hard work, then u wud have gotten marks as well.

[mowgli]
ummmm... project is coming up just fine as of now. just a day since we decided what to do!

[KP]
yup! :)

Y said...

Killer is you, bhajji appan bas waddiya...tusi sunao.

Thoda explain karonge Punjabi keevain?

killer is i said...

abhinav is ryt ...
u juss need grls and u get marks eaisly ..
and i dun hav any grl in grup and no project is decided
m in worst case ...

hey Sher-e-Jalandhar .. aapan vi vadiya ..
te explain karan di ki lood aa .. ;)

Abhinav said...

well every body knew who did the hard work and who got the marks :(..just to let u know our project cud be used as the Network adminstration for our college network while the grls project..well it was of no use they never implemented it.. yea not even a single line of code..thats called fair marking system esp in RECs'

Raj said...

freeze, I think your comments section is being hijacked by punjabis :O

Freeze said...

[abhinav]
well, that was just bad luck then.

[raj]
lol, and i am totally lost!

Y said...

Killer is you ,koi gall nai.

Freeze,pls dont mind.

greensatya said...

Freeze - ?????????

killer is i said...

yea ..
punjabiyan di shaan vakhri :p
u will neva get me freeze... as usual:p

Freeze said...

[sej and killer]
no no, y wud i mind!

but next time translate it to english, so that i can also understand :p

killer is i said...

hey .. this must b one of yr dream posts..
40 replies on nothing spl post .. he he
ok 1 more reply frm me
say thanx to me :p

ramu said...

after watchin godfather, good fellas and 'analyze this' when we sit to watch a robert de niro's movies we expect him to be a don. still we liked him in 'meet the parents'. when ur used to an actor doing stereotype roles and ur not able to accept him when he switches, there is somethin wrong in the acting part or the treatment of the movie. am sure there is somethin wrong in one of those 2 in 'eternal sunshine' but i cant give precise comments since i have'nt seen the movie

Freeze said...

[killer]
hehe, 2 comes after 1, u know?!
every post of mine is a dream post! :p

[ramu]
i have not seen godfather (but i've read it). so cant really say anything about de nero in that movie.

but i know what you mean. what was different in eternal sunshine, was that it was not a funny movie. As in, no obvious humour. Maybe there was something funny afterall, but i dint really watch it properly. what i meant was that Jim Carrey was not funny in that movie, but he is always.

Y said...

I have not watched the film, but what Ramu says about De Niro is so so true.

But I'll reserve a comment about the movie until I see it. Coz even an actor of the calibre of Pacino me feels has a tuff time shedding his image in most movies.

Freeze said...

[sej]
i dont know, i liked de nero in 'meet the parents', so i dont know if i can accept him in godfather! ha ha

Sara said...

freeze - probably ur blog has become a chat forum pls write a new blog else this would officially be announced as one by Blogger.com ;)

just kidding...pls dont take it serious

Anonymous said...

Hei..

what's new on ur side?!?
I'm simply agrree with you On Indian Idol...I dont watch a single episode this yr.
I wanna to see all those IDOLS after 10 yr where they would stand, then I'll coments..
but it's true it increase the craze of music in India..

I'm planning to write on this subject also..

all the best..
roy

Freeze said...

[sara]
yeah i know. but i wud not really mind if it becomes a chat forum.. hahaha. or do i? hmmmm

[roy]
nothing much going on...
all i knw is indian idol sucks. nothing more. i cant really comment on anything else, coz i dont really watch it.