Training Cycle

so, after two ~10 hour days of sitting in a big stuffy room listening to big stuffy presentations, i basically have learned squat. i have, however, filled out roughly 10 pounds of paperwork, give or take, which includes the 20-page signing session for all sorts of fun policies that we didn't have time to read.

oh yeah, i also found out that as a CS major i have been mandatory fast-tracked, which means only four months of training before i begin my project phase. the brits don't seem very happy about that.

the topics covered during training are mostly basic CS skills/knowledge: RDBMS, OS/systems theory, programming fundamentals, programming in C, object-oriented concepts, algorythm analysis, and software engineering theories. and J2EE (gross). we have a sort of level-of-competency test on thursday morning to see how much of this we know (/remember). and apparently we find out what business units we will be working in early next week (i.e. financial companies, insurance agencies, networks, databases, mainframes, etc). more on that as it comes up.

finally, this friday is the Indian Independence day (another country that escaped British rule? lets rub it in their faces a bit), which means a three-day weekend, which in turn means a trip to the actual city of Mysore.