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Linda is a first year part-time student in Carnegie Mellon's MS Software Engineering, Development Management track. She is a Software Developer at Electronic Arts in Redwood Shores, CA. She likes to dance and sing and her favorite videogame is The Beatles RockBand. She enjoys Indian, Japanese, Thai, Italian and Mexican food. She comes from Mexico City, and has being living in CA for the past two years. |
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Pras Sarkar is a second-year part-time student in the MS Software Engineering Development Management track. He works in Yahoo! Labs. His responsibilities include materializing ideas and concepts into engaging prototypes and demos, some of which ultimately mature into products that Yahoo! visitors use everyday. He is interested in emerging web technologies, social interaction over digital mediums, and creative interfaces that push the boundaries of human computer interaction. |
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Vineet is a Lead Developer at Boeing and a second year grad student in the part-time MS Software Engineering, Development Management program. He loves reading, playing with his daughter and pursuing the religious aspect of his life. He is an active volunteer of Vedic Cultural Center, a Seattle-based organization dedicated to promote the Vedic (ancient Indian) arts, culture, music and dance. |
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Truc is a second year part-time student in Carnegie Mellon's MS Software Engineering, Development Management track. She is a Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale, CA. She loves food and enjoys anything related to food: going to different restaurants, cooking, watching the Food Network, and of course, eating! |
Friday, January 25, 2008
Getting Pushed Out of My Comfort Zone
Hi all,
Happy New Year 2008! So Foundations has ended and I move onward to a whole new semester, a new team and a whole new set of topics to learn. I’m currently in the Requirements course, semester two of the MS Software Engineering program. One of the most daunting things about starting a new semester for me was getting a whole new team. I had finally gotten used to the old team, made good friends with them, figured out the way they work and their time schedules and it was time to rotate and get a new team. At first I was annoyed and scared to try to get along with three new people but as I got to know these guys and started working with them, I understood what Carnegie Mellon was trying to do. They are trying to force us into uncomfortable situations, placing us slightly out of our comfort zone to make us grow. It’s been great getting to know these guys. Why had they chosen Carnegie Mellon West? Where did they work? What did they do, what technologies do they work on? How are things done at their work place? Every company is similar and yet also very different. Finally, you also realize that every person has such different strengths and by meeting a whole set of people; you are gleaning the best of everyone. It’s also a great networking opportunity.
Another thing about this semester I am starting to learn is that there are a lot of tasks to do, a lot of time to do them, but the time is not structured for you! We have basically 6 weeks that we need to divide and schedule and create milestones for ourselves. While this is a great way of learning time management, I’m also a bit nervous to see if we’ll finish our tasks on time! I’m sure we will, we are keeping to our schedule so far.
posted by Sirisha @ 10:05 AM
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Hi Sirisha,
I know a Sirisha Pillalamarri who also lived in CT, but now moved to Kansas. She mentioned that there is another Sirisha Pillalamarri at CMU, which is how I found you. I saw your page at Geni.Com.
At your convenience, send me a mail. I am trying to keep track of all Pillalamarri people in US.
Do you have a Tenali connection?
Ramakrishna Pillalamarri (Pillalamarri@gmail.com)
Do you know if there is any monetary ROI after completing this expensive course ?
hi sumalata.. i am anjaiah from hyderabad. i want to join my daughter in cmu. can you please help us in this regard. if you have time please send a test mail to anjaiah.p@gmail.com
hi sirisha.. i am anjaiah from hyderabad. i want to join my daughter in cmu. can you please help us in this regard. if you have time please send a test mail to anjaiah.p@gmail.com
Could you please tell me in brief as to what made you choose this campus and this particular program. Any information would be great.
Thank you
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