Having completed two semesters of MBA, its that time of the year when everyone goes in different directions for internships. Internships mean different things to different people. Having been through the grind during my engineering I have realized that you can either choose to be completely ignorant to it and do it for formality's sake (and regret later) or you can show over-enthusiasm and bug your mentors to the point of irritating them. To be honest, I never believed there's so much to be done that you spent 10 hours in office for two months to get the best out of it.
The way I chose to look at it is, know your project well, get in touch with the right people who'd tell you the why and how of your project but then, keep some of that enthusiasm in reserve and spend it for other things in life. For me, its a 2 month period where you have time to explore what interests you, figure out what would differentiate you from the rest of the pack two months down the line and do stuff that you have never done in the past but always wanted to do, due to whatever reason.
I got myself admitted to swimming sessions even before I started my internship. There's a new found interest in data analytics which has urged me to explore the area. There's an opportunity to rekindle that ethical hacker inside me who got into a few college websites all those years ago and of course, read!
There are a few things that I've been lazy to do in the past. To cite an example, there was Adhaar card registration going on right inside my office building in August 2012, when my parents were there in Hyderabad and I took them around the Infosys campus. I still can't believe that the Adhaar officials had set up their enrollment centre in our office for about two months and I never bothered walking up to them! Now that everyone around me has got their cards, I finally went to my IDBI Bank branch today in Malviya Nagar and got myself enrolled. I also got my DL address changed and the next job on the agenda is to get my Andhra registered bike re-registered here in Delhi, for which I was asked to produce about 12 documents!
My freelance writing career is going on well, with the latest of my projects coming in the area that I love, i.e. network security. There's this Project X that I've been wanting to work on for ages but for various reasons (mainly laziness) it keeps getting postponed. There are a couple of examinations to be taken by mid July and yes, Cricket is going on!
I've been through this phase earlier and I'm sure I'll handle things just fine, like I have done in the past. Wish me luck!
The way I chose to look at it is, know your project well, get in touch with the right people who'd tell you the why and how of your project but then, keep some of that enthusiasm in reserve and spend it for other things in life. For me, its a 2 month period where you have time to explore what interests you, figure out what would differentiate you from the rest of the pack two months down the line and do stuff that you have never done in the past but always wanted to do, due to whatever reason.
I got myself admitted to swimming sessions even before I started my internship. There's a new found interest in data analytics which has urged me to explore the area. There's an opportunity to rekindle that ethical hacker inside me who got into a few college websites all those years ago and of course, read!
There are a few things that I've been lazy to do in the past. To cite an example, there was Adhaar card registration going on right inside my office building in August 2012, when my parents were there in Hyderabad and I took them around the Infosys campus. I still can't believe that the Adhaar officials had set up their enrollment centre in our office for about two months and I never bothered walking up to them! Now that everyone around me has got their cards, I finally went to my IDBI Bank branch today in Malviya Nagar and got myself enrolled. I also got my DL address changed and the next job on the agenda is to get my Andhra registered bike re-registered here in Delhi, for which I was asked to produce about 12 documents!
My freelance writing career is going on well, with the latest of my projects coming in the area that I love, i.e. network security. There's this Project X that I've been wanting to work on for ages but for various reasons (mainly laziness) it keeps getting postponed. There are a couple of examinations to be taken by mid July and yes, Cricket is going on!
I've been through this phase earlier and I'm sure I'll handle things just fine, like I have done in the past. Wish me luck!
