30 minutes.
27 iterations.
2.5 million atoms.
A linux CRASH course.
Three months is a long wait, even for "highly motivated" [Yeah! right..] undergraduate whiz kids. In my case, it's a computer program that has kept me waiting all this time. As a result, I have nearly killed the budding engineering in me, and unleashed the t shirt clad, laptop wielding , bespectacled geek.
It all started back in May, when everything was beautiful in the sunny subtropical piedmont of the southeastern united states . It was a hard-earned (???) internship at Georgia Tech, Atlanta.
Things went smoothly, and I had a great time stretching nanocrystalline sheets of copper. Everything I hated back in kgp seemed to dissolve in the sheer ease of the work.
It makes sense to remember all the good times, but the ensuing nightmare is pretty forgettable.Faced with the gruesome task of setting up a 6-node computational network in IIT, to carry out the same procedure here, I set out on a journey with a cannonball tied to my leg. The opening lines are an obituary to the many hours wasted in doing something engineers don't generally do: installing packages, debugging third party software, getting drained of creativity in the process.
I am ecstatic: because the frigging thing is working now. But I am not really sure if I have the temperament to continue the same work which I did with such alacrity last summer.
WARNING: I have come to realize that its a highly despicable quality in a popular blogger to describe personal geeky exploits which might infuriate casual netizens. Go back to the post 'Why do you blog' to know the rest of the story. Apparently, the bloggers earning fame and recognition are the thinkers and visionaries of today, who are only too eager to key down elaborate critiques of the changing face of society at best, or write B-movie reviews at their worst. Go back to the first 4 lines of this article and realize that I am NOT one of them.
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