MS&E339 Mini Conference

Ha ha! This was interesting. We had this mini conference in one of my courses to discuss projects done by the class. The salient features of the event are listed below:

- Starts 10:30 AM
- Ends 6:00 PM (oops!)
- Average talk length - 40 mins (oops oops!)
- Hardcore theory & math for 7 hours and eigteen minutes
- Simple implementation stuff for exactly 12 mins (during my talk, of course!)
- Pizza at 12 noon (easily the worst I ever had)
- Slept a total of five times during the conference

In an apricot case (or may I use the generic nutshell?), I can say that inspite of being a regular student of the course, I could NOT understand a single one of the projects presented in the mini-conference. So much for my math! Hah, who knows about POMDPs anyway ... :-)

Since then, life has been okay. Went to this Chinese joint yesterday. Food wasn't good but I think I was the only one with that opinion as none of my friends complained even once :-) Had ice cream at Hagen-Daaz after that and came back. Since the night before had been "out" (i.e. night out), I decided this particular night was going to be completely "in". So slept straight after coming back and woke up some time back.

Lets get ready to go to office now!