Week 8 - Project Presentation

One week after the exams, and I'm just itching for my final year project presentation to get over, so I can get started with my awesome holiday plan! Dragging my feet on the prepping of the presentation is driving my co-presenter nuts, God bless him for being so patient.

This post you're witnessing here is unique, for it's the only one of its kind on this blog. I won't be doing any more projects to claim credits, so take ten seconds to absorb the magnitude of this event. (You see the IIMB student halo shining, you see? You see??)

For certain reasons that can not be disclosed, we're doing a project for an organization who's name I cannot disclose, the subject of which can not be disclosed. Yes, I'm feeling so much better after this claim for transparency. But what I CAN tell, is how we get these projects, and what it involves. Essentially, there are three ways of choosing a project, one- you go out, find a topic of interest, approach a prof who thinks its interesting too, two - you approach a prof who's subject you like and ask him if you can help in part for your project requirement, and three - you wait for companies to drop projects in your lap, and you propose your potential study to them and go ahead if they accept it.

We chose option number three, as there were a couple of organizations that approached us with a set of projects. We picked one that we thought we'd like to work on, and wrote out a proposal for them. They seemed to like our approach, so we got the go-ahead on this. The next step was to find a prof who'd be interested to guide us on this topic, and we had one in mind... luckily, the prof was free enough to allot us some time. As part of the requirement, we were to spend atleast 6 hours each week on the project. Now, this happens in bursts here and there, maybe three hours this week, twelve the next etc. But you're constantly in touch with your prof to find out if you're approaching the solution properly. In our case, we sync-ed up once a week. Both with our faculty guide, and the guide from the project sponsor. Why do we sync up? It's not that you're doing something wrong, it's more like the road ahead splits into so many directions, and you're trying to find where the company wants to go, and what the literature suggests to go down through.

So eleven weeks later, we had our presentation today to an external project evaluator. Apparently profs at IIMB have a huge contact base, so they're able to identify an appropriate evaluator from a field very relevant to your topic, who will look at your findings objectively and rip it apart. IF he can. (Muahahahahahaaah!)

Things went well.

I must say, I'm feeling content.

I'm done with two years. It feels.... peaceful.