Well... 2005 was indeed a great year for me, though not as great as 2003. Probably, this was the year I was expected to work, the most. I never had so many night-outs, so many times staring on the computer screens and bits of papers. I got used to sleeping at 2-3 am in the night and waking up at 9-10 am in the morning. Life was hard and I had to do things differently, than I was used to making in the first 21 years of my life.
Let me recap on few things I did this year ---
Jan - I spent almost the entire month on my research on Peacekeeping robots. I studied a lot about defence operations, robotics, swarm intelligence and multi-agent systems. I programmed a bit on Ant-Colony Optimization and got gud results for TSP. I read abt swarm intelligence in a couple of books and found it impressive.
Feb - Spend time on developing my research idea and coding the stuff. Spent a bit of time on learning Breve -a simulator for robotics, for my Advanced Robotics course. TA work for 201 took a big chunk of my time for FEb-March-Apr-May.
March - Went to coolfront - a resort in West Virginia and had a weekend of fun. Wrote my research paper and submitted to AAMAS workshop and the initial plan of 3 papers were cut to just 1. Did a bit of work for my Multiagents course. Spent sometime preparing for the Microsoft interview (which eventually got cancelled due to snow).
April - Did work on polishing my paper for the Basic Research Methods class. Presented the work in Graduate Research Conference and won 1st prize. Did some more work for my courses.
May - Applied to Cougaar and after a bit of preparation, got through it. Spent the last few days watching few movies, arranging my accomodation and stuff at virginia and booking for the Europe trip.
June - Went in Cougaar, spending most of my time learnign Java and Swing. I learnt some crucial lessons on design, over there.
July - Some more of the work at Cougaar. Went to the AAAI Summer school at Pittsburgh and had a nice presentation at CMU. I was impressed with the robotics institute. Went on to Amsterdam and Beligium for AAMAS conference and it was awesome.
August - Bit more of work at Cougaar. Spent time seeing the fight between developers and management at Cougaar. Spent time on thinking for my paper. Went to meet a research at Brookings.
September - Spent time on coding my research project. Started my applications and started working for my SOP. Spend time on working for selecting a topic for Algost project and did basic design for OS project.
October - Time went for preparing for OS exams, coding OS project, Algost Project/Homeworks and Exam. Did my SOP and prepared for Microsoft interview.
November - Coded up for Algos Project, wrote draft reports, wrote mid-terms, interviewed with Amazon.
December - Finished the exams, Algos and OS projects and having leisure time
