Intel Internship Interview

I got shortlisted for Intel Internship from out of 116 people who initially submitted their resume with CUIC(Centre for University Industry Collaboration). The interviewer told us he selected those resumes that were different ,interesting and got his attenation, when asked. We knew the shortlisted candidates are going to write some test initially and then the face interview which is on some other day. But the shortlisted teams were asked to come the same day for face interview. We had to run from the lab which was still 12.10 to the CUIC for interview. I was the first person to be interviewed. My first personal interview, I should say, was really great. I was not at all frightened which my seniors told me that we would be. I was really freaking out in the interview place. The interviewer finally told me he found me really good. But since I was the first person, he told the results would be relative. So I guess the 2 students who got selected did well when compared to me. I was upset at first, then encouragement from my family and friends, gave me this new short term goal, to get a internship offer from the next company be whatever it is. I am going to attend all the interviews and going to be busy this summer. I will sure, write about the next experience soon.

Kurukshetra '08 - Dalal Bull :)

Well what can I say about Kurukshetra '08. It was a huge success. Its just the second year but it had reached all corners of India. After coming to college, the day I felt really proud about myself was the two days I spent with my Dalal Bull team. I dont know I had this urge to work for kuruk and as per the saying "where there is a will , there is a way", I got lot of works. First thing that happened was the Website creation job. One day Bhuvana and Suki stormed into my room and told me they wanted some people for website creation. Since I had no prior experience in website creation, I was little hesitant, then what the heck man, If you dont learn in college when are you going to learn ah? So enrolled my name and we all 6 rolled our sleeves and entered the web desinging world. We spent like a month and every weekend formal meetings to discuss about the progress was held(:D). 6 were divided into 3 teams of 2. My partner was Subashini, who is working with me in almost all projects till now. The final work gained many appreciations from seniors. When they hosted it, we were all flying in the sky. Then came the maketing work, we worked under Niranchana 4th year ECE. We have to call up the list of students given to us and explain them about kurukshetra and to ask some questions and to get some feedback. It was so nice talking to new people like professionals ha ha.. but hey its my second job. Then came the final bonanza, the organising post for the prestigious, DALAL BULL. In the first year Kurukshetra, I volunteered in Dalal Bull, all the 3 days I saw no event than this. The second year I planned to visit all programmes. One day my classmates Rajesh and Thanumalayan, asked me to assist them to organise the onsite Dalal Bull event. I was so excited about it and spent some quality time with the team. Our event was to take place on 2nd and 3rd day.
Okay the day before the first day of Dalal Bull, our coordinator, 4th year mechanical,Kapilesh called all three of us and showed us the venue ie hall no 13 where the computers and LAN has been set up. Rajesh and Thanu has to remain there and install softwares ie PHP and set up the server, since my hostel closes by 9, I came bidding them aideu. Thanu asked me to get some backup softwares the next day , I was to come by 7.30 in the morning to the venue and relieve the others. The next day morning I got some 12 missed calls and messages asking me to come immediately to the hall with windows XP cd, php Xampp installation cd. I called them and found out that the server had windows vista and Xampp is not properly installed in vista. Then I rushed off and found the night was a mess for the boys.
While Thanu went home to get his computer and Rajesh to find some xp system from hostel, I was trying to install Xampp in vista. By simply changing the drive from C to D. The Xampp was up and running in no time. We had some nice laughs afterwards and some appreciation from seniors. That felt good.
The LAN wires were old, but the person assured it will work. When the event started, initially everything went so smooth, that we had no work and were sitting simply overviewing the server activities and the database entries. Then after 3 or 4 hours, everything started to create problem the projector's LAN wire got stomped so had to find new one for that, the server got disconnected from the LAN. But overall the first day had some ups and downs. The ups were there was some 700 to 800 registerations for the event. Really huge turn out at the hall. Volunteers (first and second years) had to work some extra shifts to operate the computers and to manage the crowd.
The second day, same 7.30 but no problem with server this time but with the projector again and its LAN wire. Second day was hectic and everybody got tired pretty soon. But finally the utlimate comedy was the final 1 hour of the game. There was some sudden change in the normal flow and a CEGian got first in the game. Some people started disagreeing with this, but coordinator solved the problem smoothly.
Seniors again gave nice comments about our work. The entire experience gained from the two days was Really a great one. This story only inspired to get the Coordinator post for DalalBull next year. No matter what happens or who coordinates the event, I will make sure next year, Dalal Bull gets the spotlight right from day one. I will write about it next year.

Kurukshetral Terms:
Core - 10 decision heads of Kurukshetra Team, these decision makers are first in hierarchy.(always the 4th years. the selection process is crucial, I am not interested in this positon)
Coordinator - For an event, Coordinator is like core and does all decision making. (usually 4th years. I am so much into getting this positon for Dalal Bull next year)
Organiser - For an event, Organisers are the workers. We are responsible to write the software and to handle the crisis. (I have been this and had a quality experience)
DalalBull - simulation of stock market. There was both online and onsite event. I organised the onsite event.
Volunteers - The people who helps all the above personnels. (I have been this and enjoyed working )