supershashikant : story of Mini-Bo

It was December 2008 when I was running sort of any good name for my ****** account. Actually I was in search of such a name that was unique or which give zero result or at least very few results on googling it. Then the word supershashikant triggered in my mind and I adopted it as my web nick name. The best part is that ‘supershashikant’ was completely free from the reach of any other web walker and thus I landed on a safer name. well…..exception exist everywhere  to create some dilution in the symmetry and so happened with my super name at youtube. But it’s not the juiciest topic to talk upon. So I will decompose this topic here and take a new route.
    My last two posts were dedicated to the Ojass : our annual techno-management fest. Now It’s over and it held very nicely. It is one of the few events which cost great deal of mental and physical labour of students. My last two posts were the combined spirit of a blogger and a P.R Team member of Ojass’11. Ojass enjoys large participation from NIT Jamshedpur and other engineering colleges of India including IITs and NITs every year. The theme of this year’s Ojass was “Going Green” emphasis was lain on using the Green Technology in everyday life. Three days; April 1 to April 3, were packed with the whole bunch of technical stuffs ranging from robotics to softrace. This year Ojass plugged many new events which were unique and still undiscovered by the tech-fest of other prominent engineering colleges of India including IITs and other NITs. For better grip, please land on the Ojass official website.
    Being a computer science student, I was ready to compete in prelims of the competitions of my concern but in addition to that I was tempted to create something physical and of course Robotics could crunch this desire. Three Shashi got together to build up our first Robot of our life. We were not placing our aim to win the event but to enjoy the building process and to play with it after its successful built-up. We all three were completely new in it and had zero experience in Robot development. After a few days we added another member to reduce the cost per person and to complete the team. We had a lot of fun in building it. There were many robotics events but we were participating in “Shape Shifter”. We were thinking freely and doing each and every job by ourselves but when we looked to the other teams, they were serious and they had big and beautiful plans for winning the event.   Contrary to this, we were tension free and we freed-up our thoughts to fly in any direction and worked according to our own thoughts. We also helped our friends in welfare for their fitness by giving them a chance to laugh after watching our Bot(Robot). When we finished with its development, it looked very strange to others. We had used very general things from our surrounding instead of buying special components and had done all jobs by ourselves to reduce the cost so that can save some of our pocket money from burning out in the Bot. We were confused in providing it a name. Since it was small, so I called it “Mini-Bo”. I got it after dropping ‘T’ from the word ‘mini Bot’. We used for our play in this process we had done a lot of practice with it. We handled it in all possible circumstances.
      Now we were in the Arena Hall. A large number of teams had participated and its count was still gearing high. We were feeling embarrassed after watching the neatly and beautifully manufactured Bots of other teams. Some Bots were looking so neatly build that i assumed it to be made by professionals of a company for the sell in the market. Anyway, we couldn’t hide our ‘Mini-Bo’ for a long as we have to get into the arena for qualifying round. We had seen many great looking Bots working so ugly that their owner could only dream to get into next rounds. Specially girls feel better to spend money than to get their hands dirty with the Bot. Few controllers were controlling their bots in such a way as they were riding a mad horse. At the arena I concluded that girls always love beauty. Their bots were looking beautiful and nice as they are crafted by experienced persons but very little work had been done on its mechanism. We were hating ourselves for not making our ‘Mini-Bo’ eye capturing, it was rather ugly.
   Our turn for performance came and we scored ...............the maximum!!!! It was not a luck but it was the result of our genuine hard work and great practice. We had worked for the thing and we got the fruits. We had watered the plant at its roots without worrying for cleaning the leaves to make it nice looking. In further rounds also we were at the top. Final was consisting of two halves. I first half we had scored much greater than our competitor and we required to just prick a single balloon to become the champion. We did more than the required and all finished for our favour.
   Later we came to know that the team which had reached in the final with us was winner of robotics event in many NITs. We were the most junior in designation, in experience and in knowledge but now, we have the trophy. Same type of matter was there when I was selected in the final round of web-weavers. My team name ‘Techflair’ was single name from first year batch and this team was the only team which had only one member, that was I, myself.
I haven’t written here to boost but I am just revealing my personal experience. Most of the first year students (if not every) have same circumstances like mine. I will suggest all first year students to take part in all such events because its for you. When we are junior we always compete with seniors or batch mates and its always beneficial. You will not feel embarrassed after losing because you have been defeated by your seniors but in case you win then it will be a great confidence booster for you. Don’t look at others for an idea or any plan. There are endless ideas sleeping in your own mind, you need to search for it.
      After this summer vacation I will be in next semester and juniors will come to cover the place behind us. Really, it is painful for me to lose the title of junior. Being junior, I have learn a lot.

   If you have done really very well in AIEEE exam, then you can opt NIT Jamshedpur at higher place in the counseling. I welcome my potential juniors for the next batch...........Take care........I'll be back here in a couple of days.....


    

  

The Blogging wave @ Nit Jsr

After the end sem, first year students have enjoyed a lot of free time to scratch their heads to get some ideas in their lightweight brain. Few landed on the decision to go for kshitij( the techno-management fest of iitkgp) where few selected Ism Dhanbad as the next techstop to get involved in the workshops to fill up something in their empty brain ;-) Few bunch of students are also there who care to work for  the ojass, our annual tech fest. Since only first and last year students are available in Nitjsr to crawl, we are getting more holy jobs to do than usual for ojass. But there are few geeks in our batch who loved to buy pain for their fingers by selecting 'blogging task' as the new time pass element in the new semester.
     After getting inspired by 'the social network'( read my last post), Sonal Raj has screwed up his routine to take a pie for blogging from his extremely 'busy' schedule. Thanks to our computer center management that has provided us the complete access to the web under the sun. However at the time of  composing this post, most of the students are hanging on youtube, and getting a peep into the technical equipments which are unavailable at our holy place(of course nit jsr).
     The hottest core of most of the discussion among the students is ojass. If you are lucky enough to place yourself  in any one of the reputed technical institution, then ojass may be your next reason for screwing up your brain. Ojass is to be held in the first week of March. If you think you are not useless and have some gray matter, then its mandatory to register yourself in any one (or more) events to be drafted by ojass.
   Let your ideas flow in the right direction and for the better reasons.....Let yourself to swim along with your ideas.....gets your hands dirty and finally achieve the success.
    Keep your fingers crossed for my next blog post....till then bye ;-)

The Social Network

The title itself declares that the post will contain the fumes of 'The Social Network'. Its really a good movie specially for a computer science student like me(don't ask why!). I must thanks to my friend Sonal for making me to watch the movie. Its all about the foundation of Facebook and it development into the world's largest social network. what i liked most in the film is the thinking of Mark Zuckerberg. Although at the time when facebook was 'the facebook' and myspace had already expanded its feathers to the most parts of the word but nothing stopped Zuckerberg to dive for another social network.
   Ok..enough talk about the facebook and the movie. I have yet another social network developed by the second year students of  NIT Jamshedpur named as Palbuzz. Oh i am not telling that the Palbuzz is going to be the next facebook or not but i am just sharing a piece of information about another effort by Indian students in the field of social network.
   Why all technical heroes born in USA? Why facebook, twitter, myspace, google and all others have their roots in the countries other than India? No answer!! Ok, atleast we can take a try and smash our head to the 'wall of facebook' or fly higher than the 'twitter blue bird'. Taking a try and not forgiving in the way is the most important key to achieve,what you want. So if you are inspired by the above content then start thinking to be the next billionaire. Even if you are loath and not moved by my words then i will suggest you to have your foots inside the movies shop and look for the social network. I hope some of you will try to think(if really not able to think) about the need of people on the net and force your fingers to work for the coding of next big bang in the technology. Am i flying too high or talking fairy tales? The answer of this question will just scale your love with the technology responsible for empowering everyone to reach to the every latitude of the world.

   Just think socially in your network and .........what?......think what you can do!!!

Fail to Win

Everyone wants to win and wish to have golden periods spread over his life.
But i tell you, if you wish to win then it is better to have the taste of failure before the real exams. In your golden season you don't have time for yourself. You have your friends, relatives and others blessing you, congratulating you and they have several cakes of good advices for you and for your future. In fact you don't get time for yourself. You are busy and what!
But once you failed and you dropped down to the ground your world sans people. Now you don't get people to spend time and you and only you is there. In this part of your life you will feel like the clear sky after a rain. And now you have enough time for yourself for your thoughts and for your hobbies. Earlier 24 hours were very little for you to get all your jobs done but after a failure the day will expand for you and 24 hours are now enough for you. Now you can think which you have never thought, you will do which you have never tried.
In short the time period after a failure is most valuable time in one's life. The person who utilized this time for the best became so called greats.
I will talk more on this issue again very soon.