I am a little confused here... 1) Does the motive really matter assuming the quality would be undeterred? 2) Yes it is a shame. Yes it is business, they are doing. 3) I guess I have no choice but to bank on a good project since _I_ have wasted my engineering life in this sordid institution. 4) I saw the sites you wanted me to go through. The obstacle there was that it is a freaking ocean out there and I am to pick a drop of water out of that. I am really confused as to which project I should choose even within a particular sub category :(
PS: I shall take up your advice about the motive.. On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Shakthi Kannan <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > My thoughts below: > > --- On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Eknath > Venkataramani<[email protected]> wrote: > | 2) Yes I want to submit it back to project heads(upstream) because I > would > | want to do my my final year project in whatever I am taking up. Or is it > | something you suggest against? > \-- > > There is nothing for or against. You can always submit your changes > upstream. > > --- > | a) A project good enough for the professors (of whichever > | department) to take me as a student in a good US university for my MS. > | Rather simply put, a project that would add a lot of weight to my > statement > | of purpose enough to make them want me in their college (or am I being > | overly ambitious?). > \-- > > 1. It is not ambitious, but, has a very cunning motive. IMO, you > should always work on F/OSS projects because it teaches you something > new, and you enjoy doing it, and contributing to it, and not for the > motives you have mentioned. > > 2. What hasn't been learnt and practised very well in 3 1/2 years of > "engineering" cannot be undone by one final semester "project". This > is yet another of those common statements that I hear from students, > "Let me do one good project, and hopefully get a job or an MS". > > --- > | b) A minimal stipend (Quite evidently, my project mentor > | wouldn't be a professor from my institution(or am I wrong?). If so, then > | according to my college's final year project specifications, 'a student > is > | allowed to undergo only an _internship_ outside the college'. And by > | internship, they mean 'a project giving the student some amount of money > in > | the form of a stipend' or 'the student must already be placed in that > | company'. > \-- > > That is a shame! Are they running an educational institution or doing > business? > > 3. You always work on a Free Software project because it teaches you > something, and that you enjoy the freedom of source, knowledge and > fellowship, and not for the above 'motives'. > > Sure, you could get 'money', 'fame', 'job', 'admit for > post-graduation', but, those are only side-effects. > > SK > > -- > Shakthi Kannan > http://www.shakthimaan.com > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with > "unsubscribe <password> <address>" > in the subject or body of the message. > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
