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In second semester at BITS, a post-graduate student has to complete a compulsory discipline course named Research Practise. The goal is to introduce the students to academic research. Each student works with a department faculty. I chose to work with Dr. Sunita Singhal in the area of Cloud Computing. In the article, I am going to describe what all I did as a part of the course. The period of work is of four and a half month. The initial work was to figure out an area of improvement in Cloud Computing. Next, was to propose a solution backed with theoretical research. Lastly, proposed solution was to implemented and practical results be concluded. Things I started of were virtual machine scheduling algorithms; read several research papers, getting an overview of each algorithm. Each week, I would read couple of research papers and present my understanding to the mentor. Towards the end of first month, I had finalized the problem statement, I was going to present a report on Virtua...

An interesting Diwali experience this time, I had delayed going to home this time in order to finish up with college asssignments and enjoy the Diwali with no worries. So, I was on campus till 29th Oct 2016. I was travelling to Ajmer from Pilani via Jaipur. This was to be the fastest route to Ajmer. Started from Pilani at 6:00 am, reached Jaipur at 11:00 am, left for Ajmer at 11:15 am and reached Ajmer at 2:00 pm. Lunch was already planned at my cousin's in-laws in Ajmer. Had lunch and slept for a while before beginning the next part of the journey. I had planned to reach Jodhpur by dinner time i.e. between 9pm - 10pm so I had booked a special Volvo bus frm Ajmer - Jodhpur. Unfortunately, the Volvo broke down just outside Ajmer and delayed my journey for about one and half hour. I reached home late in the night at 1:00 am, completing my journey that started at 6 in the morning, with only 4 hours of layover in between at Ajmer. The return journey was too an intresting one f...