I’ll try to keep this one short because I have an OOAD exam tomorrow and I haven’t really done anything.

Abhiyaan is Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering’s (Navi Mumbai) Technical cum Cultural Festival. I’ve not been attending for the past 2 years for different reasons but this year I had to, considering I was the event head of LAN gaming. We had over 165 entries for our event and that’s quite a lot considering not even the Technical Paper Presentation event, which is supposed to be the crown jewel of Abhiyaan drew that many entries despite what I believe was a Rs. 10,000 prize for each branch’s winner in that event (and there were 5 such branches I believe. Comps/IT, Electronics and Telecommunication, Instrumentation, Mechanical and Chemical). It was indeed hectic with 47 entries for NFS (an event I was in charge of).

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Tags: college, competitions, interview, SKAN

PRAXIS 07 Day 1 is set and done and I’m really tired after all the work. So let me just give you a brief summary of what happened today.

1. Me and Renuk finished first in Mind Benders.
2. Me, Renuk and Prasen finished third in the Open Software competition with Scribble Scrabble.
3. SaM, strider and motr_fresco finished first (tied) in the Open Software competition with Transperancy.
4. SaM, strider, motr_fresco and musicaltherapyworks finished first (tied) in the Open Software competition with expRSS.

So thus far the first day has been good. 3 certis bagged and a ton of cash The events I shall be taking part in tomorrow are SupremaC and Brainwave. Lets keep our fingers crossed and hope we can rack up as many things as possible

From what I heard, I was just one step away from winning the PRAXIS On Line Treasure Hunt (OLTH). Oh well Me and anna want to break our record with the first rounds of C Coding competitions.. lets hope we do

Edit: Seems some people want to see a screen shot of Scribble Scrabble. Lets show it to them. It might be just plain windows GUI for now but it will be spiced up in the end when all the back end for all the features are done. XAML (.NET 3.0) should show its worth then

Tags: AXIS, competitions

Praxis 2007 is almost here and its time to prepare for the Open Software competition. You know of What I’ve Done and the reasons why my project isn’t up yet. I should have, ideally speaking, been done by now but what I didn’t expect was the fact that this sem, the subjects would be so time consuming, each having professors loading us mercilessly with work. Sure, if I didn’t have to work on my project, I’d do my work with almost no arguments but in light of my current status, I really can’t do much. Solution? Simple.. Bunk a few days of college until the 26th of August (self set submission date for the Praxis package) and stop spending time on anything that will not allow you to work at least 2 hours during college days.

Here is to hoping I can pull off this entire thing and yet not get screwed in college.
Its time to get ready for PRAXIS. Time to win ’cause “If not now, then when? If not us, then who?“

Enjoy your evening and don’t drink and drive

Tags: competitions