Return of the blogger
My, my !! How time flies. I was a college graduate, awaiting a fulltime job to “polish and build upon my skills” (or whatever it is in your resume!) when I began this blog. I guess, I posted regularly for about a month or two, before vanishing from the screen.
I didn’t go on an exile. Neither was I tired of my online presence. But I was working. It was an enthralling experience. Being able to work with top class professionals, roughly three months after my undergraduation. And, more importantly, it was in the company that I dreamt of getting into one day. As fate would have it, they came to the college for a campus recruitment and two of us got in.
We worked in the cutting edge of semiconductor industry, striving to achieve performance and battery life, with every inch of whatever mental prowess we had. It was an exciting life. Watching the clock signals, probing memory partitions, stabilizing clocks, improving performance, filing bugs.. ah.. and most importantly, competent and friendly colleagues. All of them willing to help me, guide me and supervise as I took my baby steps in the industry where the definitions of cutting edge change a hundred times faster than the blink of an eyelid.
I learned a lot, debugged a lot – and as I said in my resume – developed a lot. In my two years at my favorite corporate office, I never spent a day regretting what I was doing.
But, as the saying goes, “life moves on”. We, as humans, generally seek opportunities to push ourselves forward, to explore the world around us furthermore. There are times in your life when you feel that what you see around is an abstraction, while something deep and fundamental – that you always miss, or is ignorant off – fuels the magic; from the Integrated Circuits that we used to make to the International Space Station which is orbiting around our planet as I write this.
I guess it will be sufficient to say that a page has been turned over in my life. I’ve seen a return to my old ways. And, more importantly, I’ve returned to college.
What can you expect this time ?
I don’t know. I frankly don’t know. I hope to scribble them down as I feel it.