Working on a Final Year CS Project!
When your are working on your final year CS project then:
1) U should be ready to take 8 hrs sleep (not in 24 hrs but in 48 hrs) 
2) Azan-e-Maghrib should remind u that it’s no longer noon and u missed ur Zuhr and Asr prayers
3) Having a meal once a day is a standard. However, u can have a cup of Millo milk in the morning and chocolates and bikkos (term used for biscuits in Fariha’s lingo) after irregular intervals (nothing is regular in ur life when u r working on a CS project) . Make sure that the lab assistant is not watching u when u r having ur chocolate else u’ll be thrown out of the lab.
3) U must be planning about renting a room at ur university simply b’coz u r there all the time and cum home just to have ur single meal or take a few hrs sleep. So, it’s better that u rent a room at uni and stay there during the course of CS project. Why bother family members abt picking u up from uni and then dropping u there again after a couple of hrs.
4) If u r addicted to reading newspaper and can’t digest ur M3 (Morning Millo Milk) without reading newspaper then u shud better start taking sum medicine that helps u digest ur M3 b’coz u won’t have time to read newspaper…atleast not in the morning…u need to have a cup of milk in ur one hand and u shud be brushing ur hair with the other.
5) When u get up in the morning, the title and specifications of ur project should be the first things to cum to ur mind.
6) U shud have sum athletic abilities b’coz CS requires u to run from one campus to another and then from one floor to another chasing ur supervisor.
7) Build strong muscles, u need to stand continuously for atleast 2 hrs a day. Half an hr standing outside ur supervisor’s room waiting for ur turn or simply b’coz u cudn’t find him (Here even Google Advanced Search doesn’t work..RFID tags might do sum good) and then u need to spend the remaining 1 and a half hr discussing ur project with ur supervisor. (All the chairs in his room are usually occupied, however, on sum lucky day u might get a chance to sit during last 10 minutes of the conversation but that too if the supervisor realizes that u r standing for quite long or if u faint)
7) If sumone asks k tumharay paas van hai ya nahi and u say I can’t even have LAN..tum WAN ki baat karrahi ho..then u r working on a CS project for sure
8) If u have to read loads and loads of pdf documents, take an hourly for CS even and u r overusing the words dynamic, coordinated, resource-sharing and infrastructure then u r working on a Grid related project specifically.
9) If u look in the mirror and get shocked…No No not b’coz u r looking gorgeous but b’coz the image in the mirror makes u ask urself…Is that really me?..i never had such a horrible look then u shud realize that it’s night now, u r in your washroom, there’s a tap, a sink and a face wash right under the mirror u r looking urself in and u badly need to wash ur face. So, kindly trouble ur muscles to wash ur face otherwise the next day u will hear moms saying to their kids….sau jao warna fariha aajaye gi aur tumhain kha jayegi!
Posted this on my live space last semester but ‘am posting it here again because things aren’t ne different this semester as well ! Infact there’s a lot more that makes u and others around u realize that u r working on a CS project but I simply don’t have time to list that down…CS par kaam karna hai yaar 
FYP can become a hell — Thanks god mine ended at right time with right efforts and perfect grades
Hoping same for you — nice make-up of the condition :>
Comment by Asma — March 21, 2007 @ 2:22 am
@Asma
Thanks yaar, my first FYP CS-I went pretty well Alhamdulilah so ‘am hoping the same for CS-II as well
Comment by Fariha — March 21, 2007 @ 9:29 pm
imagine working on a cs project for four years. that’ll give you some idea of what a ca trainee’s life is like.
i like your blog.
Comment by xill-e-ilahi — March 22, 2007 @ 3:51 am
@Xill-e-illahi
Ohhh……all i can say abt a CA trainee’s life is that it must be really really tough…one of my friends is into this accountancy stuff and she has also got a tremendous workload. But neway…i feel everything is ok as long as u enjoy what u r doing!
Comment by Fariha — March 23, 2007 @ 12:02 am
That’s very original!
Comment by Sidhusaaheb — April 14, 2007 @ 1:11 am
quite amuzing, there is a simple way out of the situation and you will be free to enjoy life at your own pace , BE A SLEEPING PARTNER, saves you from all the hectics of the fyp.
;)
Comment by Syed Faraz Mahmood — June 11, 2007 @ 6:44 pm
@ Sidhusaaheb
That means thinks aren’t ne different for different people working on their final projects at different places
@Syed Faraz Mahmood
:D Nice idea but what if u have got just one other partner….we were just two girls working on the FYP
Comment by Administrator — June 12, 2007 @ 12:02 am
heheeh
well in that case, form a group wisely
well apart from jokes, forming a group is one of the critical task during a project, usually we all did the same mistake, we usually form group with our friends, irrespective of their capabilities, strength and weakness. I think group is not just a cluster of individuals , it should be a single as a single entity , with each constituent entity supporting other constituent entities and also get supported by them.
usually in course project when a group is formed , the task is evenly divided among all the members, which i think is a bad practice. each individual has his/her own set of abilities, some task he /she can perform whereas some she/he can’t do well. If you have picked all the best programmer in a group , even then i will have doubt in their success. quality work would be best , but overall the project might not be presentable or might not have proper documenation etc etc.so u don’t the best , but the best composition for a group.
Comment by Syed Faraz Mahmood — June 12, 2007 @ 11:58 am