The Lonesome Road

Really didn’t have the time to post yesterday. Went to college directly for practicals - had confirmed earlier that the morning lectures were free. Went to the lab, only to find 5 out of 15 dudes in my batch present. Anyway, the prof asked us to sit and work. So, in 1.5 hours sat and implemented the FIFO and LRU algorithms for page replacement in a page table. Lectures after the pracs were off as from a class of 121 , six students were around.

Recommendation letters are coming along nicely. Two profs had agreed - we showed them the draft yesterday and they had no problems with it. all that remains to do now is to print them out on the college letterhead and get the college stamp.

Alok and I had submitted the request for official university transcripts last monday and we were told to collect them this monday. Those who have been following this post will know that the transcripts were not ready on monday. So, we went yesterday to get them. But - as my dad had predicted before we left , they weren’t ready. But we didn’t plan to leave without them. So, we stood there for an hour waiting as the marks were entered into the computer, printouts taken and the documents were sent to be signed. Then we sealed one copy in a university envelope and took the other copy unsealed. If you are wondering why it takes one hour to do this - it’s because the clerks who handle these jobs are more interested in the telephone, talking to each other and taking walks to meet long-lost friends in the department. Anyway, it’s done - so no complaints any more.

That done, went to a friend’s house for Ganapati aarti in the morning. Have put up pictures of the idol and the view from her house here. Then headed off for Compiler Construction where I learnt Intermediate code generation. Good fun all in all. Then at night, a bunch of us went to watch The Bourne Supremacy. In true style, I fell asleep at the end. One observation - Ludlum won’t even recognise any part of his book in the movie

That was all about yesterday. Nothing much for today. Spent all morning narrowing down my college selection. Have networking class in the evening and then compiler construction again - so busy once more..

Later all…