My College life officially came to an end last week with the PG degree being handed over to me during the 26th annual convocation of the Mangalore University.
The day (16/Feb) was a happy day for me as the unexpected 1st rank in MCA course meant a Gold Medal came hopping along with the degree certificate!!! Though it personally means nothing much to me, but it means a lot to my family and relatives and I am happy that I was able to bag the medal. After all, these are the things which you carve for…something which assures your parents them that the lakhs of rupees they had spent on the course was not a complete waste!

Moving on…..just miss those college days…..got to know a lot of things…..made many friends…..did lots of experimentation on the PC….and participated in lots of inter-collegiate fests [and won many prize as well!!
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One of the few things I learnt by participating in the various inter-collegiate fest was “Enjoy and have fun in any work you do…..and you will triumph by far exceeding what you though you would have done otherwise…”. Though even today when I do something I may look serious, but I really enjoy whatever I do….which is really making life fun.
There are many many things I wanted to write about and that would unnecessarily increase the post size…hence I will cut it short ……and move on to one thing that I was unable to do when in college and am sad about, which was contribute code to the Open Source world! Well nothing much is lost….I can still contribute….I just need to switch gears and move from ‘try to contribute’ to ‘contribute’.
Life moves on…..and now that I have moved out of college……all the past achievements mean very little now………..more responsibilities have come in…….and for the past one year or so the focus has shifted to work side….let me wait and see how it turns out at work…..Overall I am happy that I finished college on a good note…
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February 21st, 2008 at 12:50 am
Yo man! Congrats .. Cool.. A FOSS evangelist bags 1st rank in MCA. I hope that says a lot about FOSS evangelists too
February 21st, 2008 at 5:37 am
Very happy to see the medal go to a deserving person. My best wishes for you on this happy occasion.
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Hey…Congratulations for the gold medal….what u’ve written is right….it definitely makes your family and friends really happy to see u’ve bagged first place….me included
Wishing you more success in times ahead
March 9th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Thanks Lax…Thanks Venkat…Thanks Arundathi…
All three of you have at some or the other point of time have been an inspiration point for me to aim higher. It is thanks to you all that I was able to get the Medal…Thanks once again…
April 19th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Congratulations buddy
It is still an achievement
April 20th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Thanks Sunil…..
May 11th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Hiiiiiiiiiiiii
congrats!!!!!!!!!
u r indeed right that bagging first place means a lot to parents…..
best wishes for u r future………..
hope u succeed in u r life