After three consecutive nightouts, interspersed with a few hours of sleep and 81 pages of typing and formatting, I have finally concluded with concrete evidence that Reports (with the capital R) are an utter waste of time, energy and resources.
This particular Report in question was of the BTP variety. Which, for the uninitiated are truly very important. There won't be many reports one writes where the title page says "A Project Report Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Technology by..." :-)
Anyways, so I was talking about the uselessness of reports. I mean 80 freaking pages - even we (my BTP partner and me) did not proof read it a second time! How can I expect anyone else to read it! I think they should just stick to presentations and a short writeup on the project limited to a maximum of 5 pages.
I think is a big conspiracy orchestrated by the honchos in the paper industry. They've probably got the Directors & HODs of all the reputed institutions on their boards. All of them force the students to submit lengthy reports for "Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements" of their degrees! And the lesser known institutes just follow suit. So there you have it - this entire thing about the paper consumption of this world. It's a conspiracy by the paper companies to create larger and larger markets. Why else would we have to submit three hard copies?! I mean one hard copy and a soft copy! No one reads it anyway!
Bah - forget it!
Accidently, we did the right thing while writing the report in MS Word (yes, I had to use an M$ product!). And that right thing saved us a helluva lot of trouble while creating the Table of Contents, List of Figures and List of Tables. I checked out those features in Openoffice.org and voila - they were there! I was planning to write a tutorial on that with lots of screen shots but couldn't find a good free image hosting service (Bloggerbot/Hello/Picasa works only for Windows :-( ). So the tutorial has been postponed till anyone can tell me a good free image hosting service
Hey nandz why dont you try navya/ wikipedia. It has image uploading facility.
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try flickr.com
ReplyDeleteAnonymous: Dear Navya Member - please leave your name and Wikipedia cannot be accessed from outside IITK. I want my divine knowledge to enlighten the entire world :-)
ReplyDeleteApurva: I tried flickR, but it sucks. You get small thumbnails on your Blog and have to hyperlink them to a page on flickR with the pics displayed in Macromedia Flash?! Any way, using flickR, I can get decent sized images (640x480) on my blog directly? (Obviously the images will be hosted on the flickR server - but can I obtain & use the URL directly?)
Hi nanda ,
ReplyDeleteI mean to say try some other wikipedia that is accessible to all if you want your divine knowledge to be shared with everyone or is it that you are just too lazy too take all the snapshots and upload them :)
Bye
p.s - I will better not disclose my name. Its fun to be anonymous.
hey nanda,
ReplyDeletewell, you can directly post your pics to blogger using flickr. I have tried it on my blog.
Apurva
81 pages??i just finished mine and it has 125 pages.The minimum stated for us was 90 pages !
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