The Lonesome Road

The last couple of weeks have been really, really hectic. What my seniors said about the final year is finally sinking in. Deadlines are going woosh all the time. It’s pretty fun though - prioritizing and dispatching all of the work that’s busy piling up all around. The last two weeks went in assignments and the project. Today is a holiday - not the whole day though - just a few hours.

The trouble with the project is that all the peripheral modules are ready. But these really do nothing on their own. They are called as and when required by the main module. This is what we’re trying to code now. The good thing is that our documentation has been systematically done. This basically means that all the class names, funtion names, variables et al are clearly defined and ready for reference. Even so, it’s taking time. We’ve finished the skeleton and are tacking on the most basic modules to check the integration. Will try to finish it off in the next ten days.

In the middle of this coding session, we have deadlines for journals and assignments. So from coding in java, we move to coding in C, doing shell programming, (D)HTML and VRML. Enough to make any head spin. But as I said - we’re (i.e my team and I) are still on the top of our game. Hopefully by thursday, the assignment work will be complete.

You know, I used to believe that visits made by politicians were of no practical value. But now I take that back. Yesterday, we had no less than six Union ministers visit our college. Over the last week, the college buildings (clean to begin with) were repainted, the compound walls were repainted, a new door (entrance) was erected, our parking was shifted and the best one of the lot - the approach road to the college was made remade. Oh yes - no one knows about my college road. Stupid me. You see the road to our college is made of three distinct parts. Part one is the main road. This has just undergone repair and concretization and is a very smooth road. Part three is the college owned road - which is very good as well. The problem was Part two. This road was *bad*. Rocky, stony and covered with gravel. Apparently, there was some dispute between the municipality and the local administration to who had rights on the road. However, all that went outof the window when the ministers decided to visit. Within a week, the road was laid and completed. God bless our leaders

Well, that’s all from me now. My coding beckons me and I am once again in thrall….