Tough Weekend... for Everyone

Fast track... Long Cycle it doesn't matter. Anyone in one of U.S. trainees in these batches is in for a long weekend. Long Cycle has to complete the project that fast track completed a couple weeks ago and because many of the long cycle students don't have programming experience, many were struggling at the beginning of the project. Throughout the Programming Fundamental modules, me and a couple of other fellow fast trackers decided to help out my friends in the Long cycle. For a second there I almost felt like a lab TA.

I di learned a lot from helping my friends out, such as which topics are frequently misunderstood and the difficulty of debuggin other people's code. Arrays and strings seem to be the hardest concept to grasp and they are often confused about the usefulness of functions. Me explaining to other people about how these things works not only allows the trainee to understand the concept better, but it also lets me think about different concepts in the C programming language. I'm surprised to say this, but it's kinda fun helping other people out. I planned to leave at 4:30 on Friday and I ended up helping people until 7 pm. I now know that it's hard to leave when other people are working on tough assignments. I am not the only fast tracker that feels that way. What are friends for?

Anyways, fast track's weekend isn't so easy either. I have a module test on Monday and a module re-test on Tuesday. Monday is on RDBMS and Tuesday is on Software Engineering. I feel like I know RDBMS, especially the SQL queries, but I always struggle on concepts because concepts require memorization and that got me in trouble in the Software Engineering test. I have a grasp of RDBMS, so I will continue to work on Software Engineering in hopes of passing the test.

Some long cycle people decided to stay until midnight on Friday to finish their projects in anticipation of the upcoming weekend trip on Sunday. I'll be missing out on this to study, but it sounds fun. The trip is a safari into a National Park 90 KM south of Mysore. Oh well... there might be a next time. It depends on whether I stay in Hyderabad or if I'm required to move for a 3rd time in the next 6 weeks. I'm hoping to stay in Hyderabad because the long cycle students in the ES unit are coming to Hyderabad on Oct 22. But at Infosys, I have yet to get what I want, which means I'm betting on a move to Bangalore sometime in late October.