Whew! The semester is over. All the tension, anticipation, confusion has ended, the grades have been announced and I got A's. It was a semester where I somehow felt that I didn't do any work but to look back I learnt quite a bit. My algorithms course was good, the homeworks were a lot of work but I think it really cemented my understanding of the subject. I learnt some pretty interesting techniques like randomization. By introducing a little bit of uncertainity, you may get an answer that might be a little bit off, but you make things a whole lot faster in the process. I think I feel a lot more confident when I need to design an algorithm for a problem.
The other course that I did was Data Mining. I kind of felt that the course isn't too deep on fundamentals, it simply uses some existing statistical methods to analyze large amounts of data. A lot of it is similar to AI/ developing statistical models/ separating data statistically. I did some work in Bionformatics, it wasn't too technical a project but we are seeing if we can get some biological results and hopefully a publication. Data mining is an emergent area in Computer Science, so this course gave me a decent area of what's going on in it.
So, in conclusion it's been a decent semester- not too productive, not a total waste either. Hopefully, I can kick things up a bit next semester. I am done with most of my course requirements so I really want to take courses that interest me.
I leave for Philadelphia on the 19th of May with my internship starting on the 23rd of May. So, I have about a week to cool off before I leave.And, I might be heading back to India for a month in August so I am looking forward to that as well. I should make the most of it!
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