As promised, I come back with the blog for this week!!!
The week went smoothly with not much surprises.. Things have started to settle in and now, I do have a routine. For the rather unfortunate people living in Van Hasseltlaan, the day usually starts early at 6:30 am, when the alarm goes off all of a sudden. But, being the lazy engineers that we all are, we hit the snooze button and go back to sleep. Its not until its 7:30 am, that I regain consciousness, just to discover my roomie, starting to make his breakfast and lunch. Hurriedly, I enter the bathroom and have a quick shower (Btw, there is something interesting and annoying, about the bathrooms and toilets in the Netherlands, but I'll leave it for some post later). After having some breakfast and packing my bag, its time to unlock my bike and head out on the windy road to college.
Okay then, coming to the main point - This week's highlight..
Last Sunday, I enrolled for the 'Yale Patt: Advances in Computer Architecture' guest lecture series, which ran from Monday to Friday (for 3-4 hrs everyday). Unfortunately, I couldn't attend all of the lectures, since I had a few compulsory classes clashing with this event. The lectures I attended were quite insightful and great fun. It was an honour to listen to Yale Patt, a micro-architecture guru, talk about the complexities and opportunities in future (multi)processor designs. Of all his witty remarks, sarcastic comments and amusing analogies on a wide spectrum of technical issues, I particularly liked two instances. First one will require explaining some technical background and jargon, so I'll skip it. Heres the second one - On the last day, when Yale Patt was gifted with a TU Delft sweatshirt, he brought up the topic of 'Whats the difference between guys and girls !??' (this was off-record, meaning that it was not being video recorded). He says, and I quote, "For we guys, when we see a girl and like her, we say- 'Yes, *this* is the girl I want!!'. But when a girl likes a guy, she thinks -' If I can change the way he does this, and change the way he does that, then I think I'll like to be with him!!' .. Lol, pretty insightful there, esp. coming from a computer architecture veteran whose inventions have gone into the cutting-edge Intel and AMD processors
So, apart from attending this cool lecture series, I also, managed to get started with my assignments (I had to!! .. Trust me, all the assignments just fall into your inbox on one day! Its like the saying goes- 'When it rains, it doesn't rain, it pours!'. Not to mention, these assignments are nowhere close to the 'Mickey Mouse' assignments we did in Bachelors!!)
And btw, that assignment for Reconfigurable computing design class I talked about in the last post, is still in Design phase (:P :( ) and its due on Wednesday.. Hoping for the best!
Till then, Adios!
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