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Exams, academia, engineering, geek, grad school, programming

JEST done

Posted by ego on 02.21.2010 · 2 Comments

I took the JEST-2010 (Joint Entrance Screening Test) today.
Institutes such as the Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai, and now apparently even the Chennai Mathematical Institute shortlist candidates for their MSc and PhD programs based on scores of this test. I wrote the Theoretical Computer Science paper.
I thought that the paper was very easy. The paper [...]

Flashback, academia, interesting, junior college, school

Congrats Sripathi

Posted by ego on 03.29.2009 · 1 Comment

Yesterday while I was at my cousin’s place, I chanced upon to see this item in Deccan Herald, issue dated 27/03/2009.
Sripathi and I were classmates from 4th standard all the way upto 2nd PUC. But more than just classmates, we were fierce competitors and used to compete with each other especially in General Proficiency and [...]