The One about the new CSI board

On Sept. 24th, my glorious, stupendous, awesome tenure as CSI president came to an end :-P We declared the new board, and filled the 15 board positions with absolutely everyone who worked for CSI finding a place on the board.

Although I have some doubts about the motives and commitment about them, still its the best that we could do. After the declaration, I lectured them a bit about how to go about carrying out their work and all. During which I had an epiphany :D

I talked about the importance of division of work, and not interfering with each other's work unless they need your help. I myself have been a culprit of not managing work division properly. Many a times, especially ever since Colosseum '08 (a techfest we organised on Feb 4th and 5th, 2008) I haven't been able to extract work from my other board members. It was just me and Priyal, trying to do everything by ourselves. Not just after colosseum, even before that I would rather do the work myself than entrusting it to somebody. If work had been properly divided from the beginning itself, we wouldn't have seen such problems about deciding who would prepare the proposal, who will handle the sponsors, who will prepare the reports.

Although this is all on a very small scale, I believe in the industry as well, this is a very important task. Most companies always have a well-established hierarchy which enables proper work allocation and subsequent integration. The art of management :P

Things that I have on my plate at the moment:
1) Applications to US universities (Just got the transcripts made, everything else still left to do!)
2) Minor Project (A multithreaded file server, made in Java on Netbeans 6 IDE, very tricky shit!)
3) Finding a cool enough place to do my final semester internship (have applied to PRL, ISRO, BISAG, Tata Labs (but they only take Pune ppl, just gave it a shot) and will apply to DAIICT, IISC, India NIC, Cignex) Other options which are far-fetched are Yahoo! and some university overseas. Yahoo because they skills they require are something I havent acquired yet, and overseas college because its just toooo crazy! Even IF it was possible to get the visas and all, I still wouldn't want to go because it just toooo crazy! and perhaps no great benefits either.

Still, heres hoping the internship I do will help me later on in my career and I get a great admit to a great college and so does Priyal, and our minor project comes out fine! OPTIMISM!