The coming year

There are three segments which I would be targetting
1. MS
2. EEDP
3. GE

Main focus would be:

1st half:
GRE, EEDP, POM, DREAMS

2nd half:
Knowledge acquisition, career shift (maybe)->depends on 1st half

The action items would be:

Jan -
1. Read about GA, ANN, and how it has been applied to optimisation problems. [//]
2. Apply GA to the design optimisation problem [FW 4]
3. Talk to IISc prof about the problem - Possibility of a paper. [FW 3]
4. GRE - wl [1 to30]

Feb -
1. Look at how you can improve the optimisation algo. Apply various optimisation algos to your design problem and benchmark performances. [ FW 7]
2. GRE - wl [ upto 60]
3. DMAIC ss [FW 8]

Mar -
1. GRE - wl [ pass 1 finish]]
2. Present in DREAMS

Apr -
1. GRE/EEDP - start trying for paper publication
2. GRE - pass 2, analytical writing, essays, etc

May-
1. EEDP [Revise CDC's]
2. GRE final pass

Jun-
1. GRE
2. EEDP

Second half:
DP's, Datamining

Ring out the old - Ring in the new

12 more days and I would be seeing my 22nd year on this planet..
I have completed almost one third of my life..
I am getting a feeling that life is short.. There is so much to do .. so much to learn.. and so little time!

Each individual is an organisation.. The one with inputs/ revenue/ profit ramp ups/ knowledge acquisition.. and a lot more
Being in GE is a great experience.. There is a lots of stress on continuos learning.
"Life is like rowing upsream. To stop learning is to fall back" goes a Chinese adage..

It is really amazing of how such a mammoth like GE is able to move in an agile manner..
[It is not agile in all businesses]
As some GE veteran said, GE is a mammoth [huge company] with the soul of a teenager [a small company] (I dont remember what he said correctly.. but this is what he meant.. And with what I have seen till now, I feel that this i true.. [I dont feel that it is true]

Things that I have in mind [that are pending]
1. GRE
2. EEDP x
3. Get an electric gat
4. Learn Sanskrit x
5. Read the entire Bhagvad gita x
6. Learn swimming
7. Learn the violin x
8. Do some work on machine learning <-- x/ Collaborative filtering / Semantic search
9.form a band, Get an album out. x
10 . Do some work on ML/CF.. get some papers published.. [agressive goal. but need to chalk out a plan to achieve this]
11. Improve my accent/intonation.. Half of the time people do not understand what I say! : (

As of now, 1,2,8,10 and 11 are at the top of the stack. Their order would be
1. GRE
2. extraction of Semantics/Semantic search/ collaborative filtering + IISc

Need to talk to a friend on what he has to say!

I have three options right now
1. MS [Mech/Coms] Fall 2008
2. MBA 2013
3. Stay in GE for the rest of the life [I am enjoying it].. but paisa!..is the factor

I need to decide.. and decide fast