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Well i am interning at TI,the one at chennai though. Well firstly i figured out that tech in india still has a long way to go.I was sad to discover that even at a leading company like ti,very little chip design happens,.... over here its mostly testing and verification .Not that this work isn't demanding and all but still we are way behind out american counterparts when it comes to real cutting edge work..

Anyways my work is to basically verify whether a chip works the way it ought to, the industry word would be verification,now this usually take up about 50%of the chips design cycle and needs a lot of bull work to be done and ya a bit of logic here and there but not much i must say ...in brief the work is passable not bad but nothing great either

Moving on the one thing i do like is the work environment you are free to do anything you wish they dont really care as long as you get the work assigned to you done.I can listen to music,genna surf around chat whatnot nobody really gives a damn.The irony is the place is such that you get bored after a while and you feel like work is the best possible option.The food is very decent way better than the mess food dished out to us . and also we can have unlimited amounts of refreshment like cofee chocolate boost badam etc as well. The mentors are also fairly friendly people so i guess all in all i give the work environment an 8 on 10.

Though on Friday we came to know that anna junta are gonna be joining us .If there is anyone I am afraid of its anna junta.

Coming to transport i now am the proud owner of a tvs moped about ten years old i believe.Going to work on it just way too much fun.The moped is one of the arbitest thing i have come across.The other day it wont just start; we kicked and kicked for about fifteen mins and the stupid things engine wont even give a soft purr.Frustrated we take it to a mechanic and viola one kick from and the thing just sprang to life.we were like DUDE!!!! .We did the same thing.But then the six year old kid (our mechanic :P )put us some fundaes and we were also able start it ... the rest of the journey was smooth sailing.The other thing about the moped it has basically zuk pickup.seriously zuk pickup.It goes at about 10 kmph for about 30 secs before it starts moving.So the next morning the thing just kept dying down after starting or wont go above 10 kmph.but once it crossed the 10 kmph barrier it behaved brilliantly .now here we are heading towards adyar bridge at decent speed but suddenly we see traffic in front and are forced to stop. Now we try our level best to make it climb but the moped just would keep dying down.The traffic passing by had a good laugh at our expense .so we had to get off and push it to the top off the bridge and then somehow magically all its problems just vanished..it started behaving perfectly except the usual low pickup off course ...
The other briliant thing about the moped is its top speed uphill is 40 and downhill is 60 .My vandi is just too unique.i hope it lasts the next two years
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just waiting for a pic to be shared by someone it basically defines elec at iitm .Its just a total crack .till then adios...