Over the weekend, I was informed that I was to become part of Delta (™, I think, or maybe it was ®) Core, the Central Webteam1 of the college, the elite2 group that takes care of NIT-Trichy’s official website, and all their LAN services, among other things.
“Hey, RR, we decided next year’s core. It'll be you and Bharath," said the head honcho3. "Bhattu will be so surprised!” he added, somewhat shamelessly.
Sure he will. And I’m just a robot. I won’t be surprised. We robots are never surprised. At best, we might throw an exception.
Not extremely sure what to say to what might be construed a cold reception, I just nodded, and let out a squeaky, stifled, ‘yay’, which the head honcho pretended not to hear. Perhaps, I hoped, the casual welcome was designed simply to not throw me off my working spree. Having spent a really long year working on a Content Management System4, during the course of which, PHP and MySQL had threatened to become second nature, it was clear I’d go on a sabbatical at the faintest knock of much anticipated opportunity. A parade and a party to celebrate the occasion, I hoped he feared, might just do the trick.
Having gotten into the Central Webteam in such spectacular fashion, the next question was, what do I do once I’m in there? What’s in store for the next couple of years?
Those astrology websites proved to be of little use to this end. They were more worried about my relationships and finances than I was. Despite the numerous good things they said about me and promised would happen to me, neither have I had a relationship until now, nor have I touched a penny that wasn’t eventually spent on food.
A little digging showed that Delta Core happens to be the secret-keepers of the Octa LAN, for those of you who are Harry Potter fans. They hold the passwords to pretty much all of the servers lying around, and most importantly, the lovely Mac kept in one corner of Sun Lab that gracefully glints in the sunlight coming through the smoked windows, and even plays music.
One thing’s for certain, more coding, lots of decision-making, and several night-outs5 await, and we robots don’t complain. At best, we can throw an exception.
- Rugged Robot
1 Central Webteam: The Central Webteam of NIT-T. More information here: http://www.nitt.edu/home/students/clubsnassocs/computing/delta/webteam/
2 Elite: I like to call it that. Delta Core means a lot of work, and we don’t get paid. I gotta have something to hang on to.
3 Head honcho: Find a more detailed description here: http://parijat-cybertechie.blogspot.com/2008/02/adventure-that-is-life.html (paragraph 6)
4 Content Management System: The Pragyan (™, I think, or maybe it was ®) CMS. Woo hoo! It’s on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pragyan/
5 Night-outs: A sleepless night; generally spent outside one’s hostel, in most cases, at the Octagon6.
6 Octagon: NIT-Trichy’s Computer Center7.
7 Ok, enough, already!
1 comment:
ha ha :) No sir. I don't think it is as bad as you have pictured it there.
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