Rhythm of Life

New students who joined UT this fall, may have, by now, realized the amount of work in the classes and in general about the hectic life... Dont worry, you will get adjusted to it sooner than later .. Good Luck with that ! But I wanted to point out one important thing in this post for new students: About ECAC or the recruitment drive in ECE... Be sure to register for ECAC and submit your resumes to companies for Internships! You should also know that CS people have different governing body (for Natural Sciences, like ECAC for Engineering).. So be sure to keep in touch with that and submit your resume if you are interested in purely CS type (software related jobs).. You might wonder why dont you see yahoo, amazon and other purely software companies a lot in the ECAC fair ... They are more likely to be in the Natural Sciences fair than ECAC.. All the best for the internship search ! If you are in Austin, and want to learn driving and/or take driving lisence test, the best person for you i...

Here, I have compiled the links to all the useful websites for GRE preparation and exam. One needs to refer many websites for GRE test preparation, registration and sample tests, etc., so this might help saving some of your precious time if all those links are at one place. For GRE test registration Free GRE practice tests : Kaplan Before starting preparation for Verbal section (ideally 6-8 months before your GRE test date), you might find it helpful to read my friend's article: http://ranjit.puri. googlepages.com/ The800VerbalWalkthrough.htm For GRE test preparation : Number2 For list of Analytical Writing Topics in GRE exam : click here For sample Essays and Argument writings in GRE exam, click here or download from: http://jainvinita.googlepages.com/sampleessaysandargumentwritings.zip Sample formats for various Application process documents for MS admission. Details on how you should take visa appointment Sample documents and checklists for USA student visa application.

Here I have compiled some general queries that I and many other students have regarding admission in MS. I will put my questions one by one in this post. Feel free to put up more questions and I will be pleased to answer you or direct you to the right source for it. Q&A before GRE/TOEFL and till before the Admission 0. What is the right time to take GRE/TOEFL tests? The best time to take the tests is 1 year before you plan to start your MS. This will give you sufficient time for the lengthy application process. Having 2 years of work experience before MS is not essential but can help you get good understanding of what you want to do in your MS. First I will tell you my plans, please DO comment on it. I'm planning to write GRE/TOEFEL in August, want to apply for MS in OS or computer architecture in fall next year. Comp Arch is usually misunderstood by lot of people , this is if you wish to design processor etc. And that needs VLSI too... So truly speaking you will have to wor...

During in initial days at UT, I happened to talk to lots of people about the courses I should be taking etc. This post contains some excerpts from that : I also talk about a few questions that have been asked by various new students joining UT, specially in computer engineering. What courses to choose for the first sem? People mostly end up choosing the courses which are either necessary prerequisites for other courses or if they are only offered say, once in two years or so. And definitely this sounds pretty reasonable. So for computer engineering the basic and interesting course I have heard of, in UT are UG Computer Architecture (360N), Algorithms (360C), Introduction to OS (CS372H), Compilers, Distributed Computing, Grad EPL (specially by Prof. Craig Chase), VLSI-1 (these are not easy classes, but basic) For the courses which are exotic / rarely offered, I think the best way is to sit in those classes for a couple of lectures, and carefully understand what the course offer...

It all began with my husband, Gaurav taking his GRE test, although the seeds were sowed during our undergrad years in MNIT itself when we started reading word lists from Barrons book. He got a score of 1350 and how can I forget mentioning here that I got 1390 after fifteen days in my GRE test. After that TOEFL came easy and we both got decent scores to proceed on to the next challenging task of deciding on which universities to apply to. It is indeed one of the most difficult part I must say, because each university application costs between $ 50- $80 (plus some additional cost of sending the official GRE and TOEFL tests scores to them, and mailing the official transcripts etc.) How many universities should I apply to and which?? My advice to anyone who is at the same stage of the admission process is that make your budget the deciding factor on the number of schools you want to apply. Assuming 75$ to 100$, as the total spending per application, you can decide on whether you ha...

Long ago (about 500 days ago, isn't it long enough?) we had compiled some information about the admission to US Universities and here are some links to them. I said long ago, because we don't want you to trust the information in these links without verifying them at the actual website. Another caveat is that most of the information is useful to ECE and CS aspirants but at the least some names and web-links can be useful to others too. I'll try to add more information about and update some of this, but I don't know when. So till then this is what it is :) 1. Info for univs1 Ohio Jhon Hopkins Michigan UC, Irvine UC, Santa Barbar 2. Info for univs2 MIT UC, Berkley Stanford Univ UIUC GTECH 3. Info for univs3 RPI USC Cornell Rice UT, A&M UT, Austin UC, SD 4. Info for univs4 Caltech CMU Michigan Univ of Washington Wisconsin Madison 5. Info for univs5 Princeton Purdue UC, LA Penn State Maryland