My first job in the United States

I came to Texas A&M in August 1993. I was looking for a job or an assistantship. A&M at that time was using Oracle for Research Accounting. I heard of a job opening for an Oracle Developer/Business Analyst and I was the only person on campus who knew Oracle and SQL. I interviewed for the job with two managers. One interview with the hiring manager was very interesting. She was looking for a Graduate Assistant Non-Teaching data analyst really and she gave me a piece of paper with a bunch of names and numbers and asked me to type it. After I did in excel, she had me print it out and she checked it and there were zero errors and she hired me. She was kind enough to make the start day Monday instead of Wednesday the day I was interviewing so I could get qualify for in-state tuition. The difference was $1200. This was a YUGE deal. I got my Master’s in Electrical Engineering in 1995.  During that time, my interest was in sparse matrices and did some coding in Oracle and SQL for sparse matrices and published it in the local Oracle User group magazine.

Gyanlet

Gyanlet

A word I coined for a unit of useful knowledge. 

a tiny of piece of useful gyan to be transmitted digitally for maximum and effective reach...

a tiny self contained gyan

Gyan is wisdom in Hindi/Sanskrit

Brilliant Computer Center

It all started in Jan.93. I had gotten admissions from Texas A&M, University of Texas and a couple of other Universities for the Fall 93, Electrical Engineering program. I let my job at HCL selling communication systems and went to Brilliant Computer Center(BCC) to learn UNIX and C. The counselor there (she was really pretty) convinced me to enroll in the UNIX/Oracle class she was trying to fill for 5 and I would complete the class. She told me I could use the free time available to learn C. From Jan’93 to Jul’93, I spent every day at BCC learning UNIX, C and Oracle. The first time, I got the concept of the relational join and tied it back to set theory was my first eureka moment of understanding. Interestingly, the theory was invented by Dr. Codd on the year of my birth.

Doggerel

My friend Swaminathan Poornachandran posted this amazing photo and I added a doggerel to it.
I call it a doggerel because I could not do justice to it and it is one of my favorite GRE word.

dog·ger·el

/ˈdôɡərəl/

noun

1. comic verse composed in irregular rhythm.

   • verse or words that are badly written or expressed.
   • 
     

The all pervading god,
Is bound with a cord,
He who is just,
Is led by a girl with lust.