It’s CMU all the way!

After thinking over between Delft and CMU, I finally settled upon CMU as final destination. One of the main reason for this is choice of courses at CMU, especially in my area of interest (which is System level engineering for Embedded Systems), CMU has the best mix of courses in entire USA.
Life at CMU wouldn’t [...]

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Universities I applied for MS, Fall09

After deciding upon doing MS this year, next step was to choose universities based upon my area of interests. This wasn’t easy as it looks, I explored many universities in US, Europe (Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden), Asia (Israel, Singapore, Japan) and then finally settled upon 9 univs, 7 in US and 2 in Europe.
Following is the [...]

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Why I want to pursue MS

I have been thinking of going for higher studies in engineering (MBA isn’t my cup of tea) since final year at Trichy. Since then I have worked for more than a year in my field of interest which helped me to better understand industrial approach to everything. This coupled with deep thoughts, discussions and extensive [...]

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I need to write

For some time I was quite hooked to Twitter, and the idea of saying it in 140 characters or less. But I feel that blogging is better platform to share ideas and thoughts. I would try to update this blog as often as possible.

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Completed one year at NXP !!

Today I have completed one year working at NXP Semiconductors, Bangalore. Overall experience was really good; I like NXP’s culture, so much freedom. People are really talented, learnt many things from them. Each and every morning I look forward to go to office.

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Crush Calculator

Have you ever received a mail with subject Fw: Interesting love calculator;
Plz try once..it really works …i tried ….;)
If not then click on this link
(http://www.vinayakworld.org/lovecalculator/index.asp?c=315601)
Don’t ever get fooled by it.
I have asked many people about it, and almost every one entered correct details for the first time.
I got a similar mail tempted me to [...]

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Problem Solving

There are many ways to solve a problem. It all depends upon your approach and knowledge. For example consider the case of sorting. There are numerous ways to sort a given array. Take the case of well known method quick sort and bubble sort.
A bubble sort is the crude and primitive way of solve the [...]

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Tag game

Self tagging from alagu, so here it goes,
Last movie seen in a theatre:
Om Shanti Om
What book are you reading?
The Black Swan, by Taleb
Favorite board game:
It would be Business
Favorite magazine:
Safari (Gujrati)
Favorite smells:
Smell of frying Bhindi, after rain
Favorite sound:
My ring tone
Worst feeling in the world:
Not perform to my expectation
What is the first thing you think of when [...]

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Prof. P Jayaram

I had to write on this one
Sometime a single person can have impact on you, for your entire life. Prof Jayaram was among the one in my life.
He taught us 3 courses, Data structure and Algorithms (4th sem), Object oriented Programming(5th sem) and Computer Networks (6th sem).
I still remember his first class where [...]

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and all boils down to this

Dear Chintan,
We attribute these successful results to colleagues like you, who tirelessly worked hard and helped us to reach where we are today. In appreciation of your efforts and based on your significant performance during last year, we are pleased to inform you that your salary has been revised from 1st April.
Regards
So your salary is [...]

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