Saturday, May 17, 2008

Relying on Luck.

Now a days, I am doing only one thing, looking for BE project ( A last year project to be done for 6-8 months which is in general sponsored by company ) .
But I am damned confused.
Reasons are

1 ] Luck factor
2 ] ( Not )Knowing my field of interest.

1 ] Luck factor --

I guess almost every senior told me that guide for the project is the most important thing.
Now to select our project the most biggest problem is we have to approach a company or some times company approaches us ( College :P) .
So the guide part is hidden, you will be lucky if your guide is good enough.
The general equation is if a company is good enough then chances of getting a good guide are more.

2 ] ( NOT ) Knowing my field of interest --

This is a big issue for me.
In the first year we were not introduced to core subjects. So I did not went for any project as such.
In second year,
We started working on application program, like flash or at the end of second year WEB.
In the third year,
I worked on Network project. I also worked on " C " language in third year.

Now the problem is which field to select for BE project.
As I am working on WEB since last 1.5 years, it is a well known field. I know it's pro's and con's compared to other field.
But subject like Parallel Computing, Operating System , Network are always very fascinating to work on. They use all the core concepts than using a set of API.

So now switching to basic like assembly language or parallel computing, system related project might be losing edge that I have in WEB. But I guess it is the best time to try hand in some other technology.

Lets see what happens.
By the way , I was thinking of a good solution why not approach the guide directly ?
any ideas / suggestions ??

5 comments:

Harshvardhan Pande said...

this project dilemma is worse than any other faced so far. the projects u get easily r those we dont want. where we want projects, the 'apti' comes as a kabab main haddi ;)

but eventually, just like all phases of engg, things will work out.

vijay said...

yeah.
Project we are really interested in ask for some experience in that area.
So the question is from where we can take that experience.
AS time available is less we should go according to our intuition I guess.

vijay said...

Finally I got the project for which I was just dreaming for, project @ Computational Research Lab. Till now I think I have made correct decision , I went for parallel computing project.

Sameer said...

sometimes i really wonder, do we need to think so much?

vijay said...

@sameer,
According to me it depends, if you have some expectations from something then you usually think about that issue.
If there is something that you really don't care you will never think about the same, for example my last semester elective subject :P
I never thought too much before selecting it !