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Quote from Infosys Service Agreement:
AND WHEREAS The Engineer recognizes and accepts that at the time of appointment as Software Engineer, except exposure to academic knowledge, he/she has received no formal, effective, technical or practical training enabling him/her to independently function as a Software Engineer thereby becoming commercially viable to the Company.
Isn’t this what I’ve been [...]

George wrote about the Bachelor of Engineering course under Anna University and the less fortunate who are burdened with it. Read it here and then come back to this post.
First off he talked about organised protests. We had that a few times. It was nice. Two years ago our seniors were annoyed with the poor [...]

My classmate Arun (Yeah it’s another Arun… hard to keep track of them all isn’t it? We call this one ‘Poochi’.) bought a new ‘iPhone’ and he said it was a great deal since it was cheap and sound quality was great. These cheap phones from Korea and China have invaded the market and they [...]

The fact that the engineering course is in much demand makes colleges treat students like shit. They conveniently forget that we are the customers paying them money. Here’s an example of how ridiculous things are when trying to access the Internet at college.
Me - Marc
LA - Lab Assistant
HOD - Head of the CSE Department
L - [...]

Oh wow, the second and last day of college for this week is over. I look forward to another five days of peace. Ah…!
College is tiring and is even more so now that they’ve changed my bus route to go via Kovalam. That means another 20 minutes on the bus before I get home. (That’s [...]

Arun and Harikumar alerted me to a Times Now news item about engineering colleges in and around Chennai passing off their bullshit rules as Tamil culture.
Regressive separation of the sexes?
In 21st century India, if you thought we had done away with archaic ideas about men and women, thing again. TIMES NOW has found that certain [...]

I have to college tomorrow and it sucks so much! Usually we’d have 5 days off before we had to endure it again but this time the second project review and monthly tests wiped out most of the week and got only Friday and Sunday off.
The worst part about college is getting up in the [...]

I’m so tired. Monthly tests have started and this means we have to go to college on Wednesday. And since everyone did the first test so badly they’ve asked us to write the test again on Thursday. The second project review is on Thursday and Friday. All this means that pretty much the whole week [...]

The Campus Connect program started by Infosys is a n effort to bring the students in engineering colleges up to industry standards to make them more employable.
While the initiative is commendable, it looks like the program isn’t working as intended. Read more about it here.
Are engineering colleges corrupting this program or is Infosys dumbing [...]

The results for last semester are out. You can find them on the Anna Univ site as always. If it isn’t being overloaded by thousands of engineering students, that is.
I’m quite happy with the results, for the first time ever. I passed both my Math papers (arrears). I did flunk one subject - Total Quality [...]