I've been experiencing an incredible streak of good luck over the past few days. It's as good as anything to blog about, so here goes...
First off, universities have finally started replying. I've only got two replies so far, but one of them has been incredibly positive. The University of Central Florida wants me in their CS Ph.D program, and what's more, they're giving me an assistantship too! It's a pretty good program, so unless something even better turns up, I might just be in Orlando half a year hence. My childhood ambition of visiting Disneyland might actually be possible now...;)
Of course, it is a Ph.D, so I'm scared out of my wits. On the other hand, one look at the stuff I'll get to learn sends my enthusiasm levels through the roof. Besides, I'm not exactly dumb, and it's a fun way to spend the next few years...
All this exultation is somewhat premature, since I still have to hear from the rest of the univs, but it's good to have something in the bag, so to speak.
At this point, a few people will be wondering why I haven't mentioned the reasons that they would undoubtedly find most convincing for going to Florida. For their benefit, I'll mention a bunch of keywords which should keep them happy. Here they are: tropical weather, theme parks, beaches, babes. Putting these together is left as an exercise to the reader.
Ok, that's it for the first piece of good news. On to the second...
Remember Code4Bill? Well, it turns out that despite my useless performance in all 3 rounds, Microsoft is convinced that I'm among the top 5% of all Indian students(their words, not mine). So either next week or the week after that, I'll be going over to Delhi or Bangalore to be interviewed by a bunch of Microsoft people. They're only picking 20 people for the internships, so I'm probably out - after all, there have to be 20 people in this country smarter than I am...Still, it looks great on a résumé, eh?
I finally made it to USACO section 3.3. The problems look rather scary now, so I have a feeling it's gonna be slow going.
I just hope this streak of good fortune doesn't suddenly reverse itself(to preserve balance or some such thing). I'm rather terrified of that happening, especially since the results will be coming out soon...Anyway, there's no point in worrying about that.
Half a day of boring lectures tomorrow...thankfully I have several USACO problems in my head to occupy me. Time now to hit the sack. Toodle-oo.
Monday, February 13, 2006
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Congratulations!
Do you know the area in which you want to do PhD?
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I'm still thinking about that. I'm afraid research is practically nonexistent at the undergrad level in my university, so I'm hoping to get a better idea of things before I make a decision. I'm still fascinated by AI, machine translation, graphics, algorithms, and so forth, so it's highly probable it'll be in one of those areas.
Of course, this is assuming that I don't get an MS offer from a better university, in which case I may decide to go for that and put off the PhD decision for a while.
I see. I was curious if you intend to work on something similar to what I do (applied formal methods). It seems not.
Anyway, good luck!
Congratulations! bro! Its sad that you won't be visiting delhi. Spoke to Ujju phu.
KH
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