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Tuesdays with Morrie and Gibberish Rants

 Writing this from my macbook. Those who don't know, the keyboard and touchpad stopped working a month ago and was using my old dell inspiron.. but somehow i thought of charging the mac before taking it to apple store, and boom it started working... saved a couple hundred dollars *sighs*.. i believe it was some software (driver) bug. Anyway just 2 months left before i breathe in india. I'm excited. Also, been rigorously solving leetcode (DS, Algo and SQL). Bought premium membership for an year... Also, have to complete udacity nanodegree before it charges me for this month... aaaaarrrrghhhh... Gearing up for full time job interviews. Well, you see. I'm sure I'll get a job even if I don't prepare with strategy. But I have great expectations from myself.. (my parents are hopeless for me. they don't expect much from me ;__;).  Targetting Mckinsey, JP Morgan, or Bloomberg specifically. But will suffice with fortune 250... Well, Unum falls under the category. But jus

Work, Vermont, and Last 2 months in Portland.!

 So, the initial days of co-op were somewhat chilled. I surely had work to do, but I used to complete it within 3-4 hours everyday and had plenty of time in my hand to relax. But lately, work has been crazy. Not kidding, I literally glance 2-3 times at the clock. At 8:30 in the office, then accidentally when my eyes gaze the wrist, BOOM!! It's 12:30... (and I rush to the mess where I had to pickup my lunch at 12:20!!). Then again I gulp down whatever Unum offers in 5 minutes and gaze at my laptop screen. And after a while, BOOM!!! Again it's 4:45!!! Being a busy bee. Working with Ryan, Chamin, James has been fun though. And meetings have increased exponentially. Also, my fear of dealing with long SQL queries has vanished and now I can write/debug them like piece of a cake... (given that I know the ER diagram). Well, because the moodle db in our prod has like countless tables, with tons of datapoints which can be used for analysis and reporting. Also, currently working on defini