My Life in the Netherlands

First and foremost, a few disclaimers

I have decided to update my blog every weekend, updating my status and recording interesting/amusing events over the week. If you know me well, you must have realized that a lot of future posts would give insights of my academic life (I am here for that, ain't I?) and would have ocassional mention of trips and parties etc.

I had an amazing introductory week at TU Delft, but unfortunately, I hadn't bought my laptop then, and now, I am just too lazy to write about it. But to summarize, I had the perfect start to my academic life at Delft, and the credit surely goes to the Introduction Week team and the Indian seniors here.

Also, to everyone, I got so super-excited about the courses here, that I decided to take up 6-7 courses in the First quarter itself. There are a lot of reasons for this, which is useless to discuss here, but I know what I am doing. The bottom-line is, I am trying to pull off a super-feat in a completely new education system along with a lot of other 'First time' activities like cooking food, washing my clothes (No washing machine in my apartment :( ), ironing them, fixing my bicycle etc etc.. So, as you all must have guessed, i am super screwed up.. The good news is that I am learning to do all that, and will eventually succeed. The only problem is that its very difficult to start my laptop and hit on the Skype button to have a nice chat with friends and family.. So, please bear with me for atleast 3 months from now. My second quarter is a lot relaxed with max 4 subjects and hopefully, I can spend a lot of time catching up with you all.

Intresting activity last week :

I enrolled into the Reconfigurable Computing Design Course last week, and some of the world's famous professors teach us that course/ associated with it. Had awesome fun attending the lectures, but even more amazing was the Lab work. The TAs for that Lab are really helpful and quite knowledgeble and the best part was that we were working with some amazing infrastructure on some real life challenging problem. Quite something!! My partner for that lab is a 7 feet Dutch guy named Ath (pronounced Aaa -Th). We have to design a reconfigurable-component, which integrates into the system, over the next week and i am really running short of time, since the offer is that the team which designs the module better than what the TAs could manage, gets an extra point!!

So, Adios till then, have a good week ahead, while I fight for that extra point :)

Cheers,

Anand Khot

M.Sc (Computer Engineering),

TU Delft,
The Netherlands.

(P.S. Feeling proud of the signature :) )