Chinmay Kulkarni’s Website

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College Of Engineering, Pune Main Bulding (above).

COEP Boat Club(Below)

Punt Formation(Below)

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I am updating my site contents nearly after five years. It has been a long time and many things have happened since last update.

                 I am currently studying at College of Engineering, Pune (COEP). I am doing my B. Tech. in Electronics and Tele-Communication Stream.

                 I was in Mumbai till my 12th Standard, then I got admitted in COEP. COEP is 2nd oldest college in India (153 years old) and it is famous for its excellence. It is ranked as 15th best college in India by ‘India Today’ magazine. Electronics and Telecommunication at COEP is most sought after course in Maharashtra.

                 COEP has very old Boat Club. It is one of only 2 engineering colleges in India to have Boat Club. Annual gathering of  COEP Boat Club is known as ‘Regatta’. This year Regatta has completed 80 years of exuberance. Punt Formation is most prestigious and difficult event of Regatta. Different shapes of lighted punts (kind of boats) are formed in the river water one after other. Punts are lighted using small coloured bulbs using car and truck batteries. Each Punt has 2 or 3 coloured circuits of bulbs. Each circuit has more than 120 bulbs. 100 first year students participate in Punt Formation each year. Students prepare these electrical circuits each year.

                 Punt formation is considered as introduction to Boat Club for freshers. (First Year and Diploma students). Only 3-4 students are added each year to the team organizing Punt Formation. I am one of the very few lucky ones to be among that team.

 

                 Subjects of Microcontroller and Digital Communication related to Information Theory and Coding fascinate me most. Programming of Microcontrollers and Microprocessor and Digital Information Communication is the reason for which I opted of Electronics and Tele-Communication.

                

                 I had Computer Science as my vocational Subject (along with Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry) in Junior College. I have pretty good knowledge of C, C++ and JAVA. I also like to work in VB and HTML. I am going to upload my Java programs soon  (specially LAN messenger in JAVA) Check old site for programs written by me when I was in school.

                

                 I like to play Age of Empires II (Age of Kings) whenever I get time. Also, listening to mp3 songs is one of the favorite pastimes. I like to read story books sometimes. Also ‘Prison Break’, ‘Heroes’ and ‘Asambhav’ are my favorite serials on Television.

 

                 After living in Mumbai for 18 years at home, experiencing hostel is like getting completely new and different life. You have to do all the work and manage money, all of your assets. My college has adopted continuous evaluation strategy, i.e. we are evaluated continuously throughout the semester. Surprise tests are conducted. One before mid-term exam and one after mid-term exam. Final exam has maximum weightage e(50% of total marks). So the life in college is not that easy as it used to be in school or Junior college.

                

But the thing that has really changed my life is Punt Formation. Have you really ever found out one goal/ one thing for which you are ready to do anything? If you have then you may understand the passion of Punt Formation. It has taught lot of things which I will never forget.

                 More later….