Proof by Contradiction

As part of my internship at Synopsys Bangalore, I realized that one thing freshers are gauged by, is the institute they come from. Sometimes people judge the institute by looking at the candidate and at other times they judge the candidate by looking at the institute.

Lets quickly move to the point I want to make here. I always used to think - What kind of impression do I create about the kind of education I received at IIIT Hyderabad? After some giving some free reign to my imagination, I came up with 5 characteristics of mine that should PROVE beyond any doubt that I am truly an MTech in VLSI and Embedded Systems from IIIT Hyderabad



1. I can count the number of professors in our department using the fingers of one hand only. Even after counting that, I am left with enough fingers on that hand to count the number of FPGA boards in our institute.



2. I think of the available tools first and then make up a project that can be implemented on the tool rather than the conventional way of choosing a project topic first followed by looking for a tool to implement the project on.



3. The actual amount of time (in weeks) spent working on a project is equal to the number of months the project is supposed to have lasted divided by two. Eg. A typical semester project last 4 months but actual work on it is done in the 2 weeks before the deadline.



4. I can prepare a project report for any project of mine one night before the day of project report submission. I derive this confidence from my highly developed skills in googling, copying and pasting.



5. I know enough Computer Science related stuff to put it in my resume and write about it in written tests, but not enough to speak about it in the interview. In the end I feel like I am stuck in a Bermuda Triangle where the 3 vertices are VLSI, Computer Science and Embedded Systems. The difference between the real Bermuda Triangle and this one is that in the real Bermuda Triangle, ships and airplanes tend to disappear, whereas in my Bermuda Triangle, Embedded Systems tends to disappear.