Best stress test in the world

3rd year CS at IITM especially with these courses in 6th sem:

1. Software Engg + Lab with Ramkumar as the TA - Lab project - Add a new protocol to Gaim to support serverless chat on LANs. Our TA claims that this is not a sufficiently complex project.
   
2. Computer Networks + Lab
   
3. CAD for VLSI - no lab credit, but you need to make a fully pipelined super-scalar 32 bit Tomasulo processor with over a million transistors and synthesize it on an FPGA board to pass the course. The problem statement for this project is 10 pages long! This is in addition to a few other lab assignments which seem to be peanuts.
4. Planning and Constraint Satisfaction - A very recent field of study. As far as I can see, this field was started only for the sake of the biannual International Planning Competition initiated in 1998. No lab credit, but you are given some planners that were used in the International Planning Competition and you need to design metrics to figure out which planners are better in which sort of domains and then run numerous tests to evaluate the planners.
5. Computational Geometry - A self study course. I never managed to understand anything in the book. It takes about half an hour to understand each page in the book. None of us who took the course managed to proceed much in the book. Finally we have been asked to make a presentation on one topic each. Most of us are dependent totally on the presentations to understand syllabus for the end sem.
6. E.Commerce - Ah the only 'peace' course this sem. No end sem. Just a term paper and a presentation. I really liked what we worked on for the term paper. The course is over and I unofficially know the grade too.

With 5 projects to be completed during or after the end semester exams, I seem to be heading towards a rough fortnight ahead.

I hope the internship in California would be a hard earned reward.

On a lighter note, just found this on a friend's status message