It has been sometime since i had some time to update my blog. But things happened so fast that i had no time to type a few words. As i had registered for Software Design and also had prepared an amazing team consisting of the top brains of my college, I was going into it in full throttle. The deadlines for the first round was announced and later extended. We finished our exams and submitted our abstract. We were not making any small project, so we were sure we would clear the First Round. And sure enough, 75 teams weer shortlisted from over 1000 participating teams. And we were among those 75 teams. Next we had a very short deadline to submit our next round documents which included a Detail Specification about our project, Reference & Architecture Diagrams and a powerpoint presentation. And we worked right thru the night we were supposed to submit our documents. We were a bit late, about 5 hrs past the deadline, but our submission was accepted. I remember that it was the longest i have ever been awake, 5-30AM. Someone came online at that time and asked me How come i had woken up so early?

Our conference call from Microsoft where we were to explain our project ideas to a Microsoft rep had already been scheduled at 5PM on the same day we had submitted our docs. So we had no time to prepare for the call as we had our other project work pending too. We got back home from project work and RING!! RING!! came the call. I turned on the speaker phone and was greeted by Tejas. Cool guy, listened to our unprepared presentation with calm nerves and lots of patience. Although he had an expression less voice, he seemed interested. How would you be if some amateur was trying to impress you with something that you had already mastered. And what would your situation be if you had to do this all day for 7-8 teams and two weeks in a row! I would go mad!

However our call ended on a good note. And we were happy that it was over, and not that we had done well. Since we had our call on the very first day Round 2 began, we had to wait a long time for results of the same. But no hurry, I can wait. Results are due 20th March. If we are through, there may be no posts here for a long time.