Research

Ahaa!!! At last!!! I have been thinking of starting off a blog since so many years and at last I have a blog to call my own. I know, I have started off when most of the net savvies / surfers out there have already quit blogging. But, I have high hopes that I will find some readers out there. As the title of the blog says for itself, its what my mind speaks. With few people around with whom I can do that kind of a talk, I generally find it either speaking to my heart, where it eventually ends up in a quarrel or to itself. So, this is just one more way that I've found to let it out.
I don't really know if you give introductions on blogs, but I think I need to. I am a graduate student, at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA in computer engineering, with my interest, research and specialization being in digital VLSI design / CAD, chip design to the common man!!!
Well, as somebody had said sometime, "Research is what I am doing, when I don't know what to do", is something I used to believe in. For me since quite sometime now, Research is just something I have been doing to graduate from my university with the Masters' I started off with in the Fall of 2006. I would attribute the changed motive behind research and how I look at my work to my summer internship. Before, people get a plethora of questions in mind, I would like to clarify those. Number one, there are people who are just in search of opportunities to re-iterate what they think about research and that research is absolute shit. On reading the first few lines of my shitty write-up, they think they have found a supporter in me. Am sorry to disappoint you guys, but this is not what you think its about. I still love the idea of research and the marvelous combination of the words R&D, which so easily states how 'research' leads to 'development'. My wishes to give a bigger meaning to my work have gone begging basically because of the lack of infrastructure and proper tool and facilities at my university. Also coming back to how my internship changed the way I look at it is basically because of the fact that I realized how useful or useless for that matter of fact the work that I am doing can be.
However, I still don't dismiss my work as absolute shit. It is because of this very work of mine that I landed up with my internship. It is because of this very work of mine what I am today and it is because of this work of mine, that I had some scholarships and am not bankrupt today or made my parents go bankrupt!!!! Some things remain unchanged though about me and my research, most important of them, my thought about research, which I've already told to so many people, and I would also state here: Any research is do-able and has a meaning if its going to help the person in the industry do something better and thus help the common man through a long link. So I end this one here, sorry for boring people who read this, but as the title says, its just my mind speaking and this is the best place I found to let it blurt whatever it wants, with the relief of getting stuff out of it and also not boring somebody with my thoughts.