Archive for January, 2010

Last Three Months : Rewind

// January 19th, 2010 // No Comments » // Life's Happenings

Its been more than 3 months since my last post. Stuff has been happening. Well actually loads of it. Ive been busy like never before, and have encountered times when I was out of topics to write on. Not that anything wasn’t happening, just that my priorities had been on a tangent.

Here’s what has been happening :

  1. I applied for the Microsoft Student Partners India. Filled up their application form. And as an evaluation criteria, all applicants had to make a video on any Microsoft technology of duration 2 minutes. While every other person was going for ASP.Net or Windows 7, I decided to opt for Project Natal. Here’s the video I submitted:

    2. Then on the 13th of October I got a confirmation email stating that I had been selected as one, but would have to  prove my worth by performing certain activities as stated in the StudPart website and accumulate a specific number of points to clear probation. That part was a breeze and I am now an MSP.

    There was a small meet arranged for us fellow student partners by Microsoft 4 days back. Got to interact with couple of MSFT folks and met other Student Partners and also received my Welcome Kit. More on the Student Partner stuff later.

  2. I did a short stint with AMD, details of which I cant divulge. Those 2 months were lots of fun and now I am a part of an elite group who gets to preview the latest stuff AMD-ATi churns out. Trust me when I say that anything related to AMD I’ve done has been awesome. Will continue being associated with them
  3. And then of course, after all the excitement about AMD and Microsoft began fading, exams had to turn up and everything I had at hand, or was planning to go had taken a backseat. Now that I am free from all, its time to get going once again. There are some changes I am planning here. And of course, regular posts!
  4. Also, I have made major changes to my rig, and I will be doing a post on that too! Detailed info when I write in the coming days.

Yes, I have become pretty much jobless till exams come again in May.