Psenti Sem begins...

Its been 3 years of engineering and now the final year begins with everyone stressing about the placements.
But between this stress of being placed, there is something I fear more. The fear of losing all the happy moments and some of the best years of my life.
THAT'S WHAT PSENTI SEM DOES TO YOU.

Psenti Sem (i.e. last semester on campus) is the best and the worst part of college life. You are free to enjoy, less classes and once you are placed, life becomes easier.
But among this free spirit, there is a fear hidden. Psenti sem, as the name suggests, brings out all the sentiments in you. You remember your joys, your sorrows, your adventures, your juniors, your batchies, friends and possibly everything you can think of.
THAT'S WHAT PSENTI SEM DOES TO YOU.

Another difficult part is to leave home when you have spent more than 2 months straight so close to your parents after such a long time. I know this may not seem as difficult for the sophomores as it is for the freshers, but for a final year student this is much more difficult.
I don't know if I will ever get this much time again with my parents in the near future and this thought made me tearful today when I was boarding the bus to my college.
THAT'S WHAT PSENTI SEM DOES TO YOU.

What's most dreadful is that I get to see some of my best friends on campus (who are on internships this semester) only on the Convocation now. It is so much difficult now to survive on campus, alone. I am already missing them.
THAT'S WHAT PSENTI SEM DOES TO YOU.

I don't know what my future holds for me. But I know that this is the part of my life I will cherish the most.
First year and Final year now seem so similar to me. I want to live this last semester to the fullest.
And at this point, I don't want to say Goodbye to anybody.
THAT'S WHAT PSENTI SEM DOES TO YOU.

The Summer Internship of 2017

Hey guys,

As suggested by one of my friends, I have decided to share my experience of the the internship I had last year.

It was the summer of 2017 and I and my batchies were allotted a "Practice School 1" (PS 1 for short) - an internship in which we learn about the industry and it's operations.
My PS station was in Grasim Industries, Nagda for a period of 8 weeks. Nagda is a town in the district of Ujjain whose major area is covered by Grasim's campus and it's environment is full of toxic gases. There were a total of 37 students as interns from all the campuses and we were allotted different mentors and projects.

Now, when you go for an internship, you have all sorts of thoughts. I had too. I thought it would be my first step in the corporate world. I will get to know about potential future opportunities. I will have to go to the industry daily in the morning. I hope I don't screw up my project. All sorts of possible positives and negatives.

So the first week was quite boring as we had to go to these orientations all day long from one plant to another and listen to the managers. But to be honest, our major learning came from these orientations.

After that we were allotted projects and mentors as mentioned earlier and I realized that my mentor was quite a cool person who didn't expect much from us (us means me and a classmate, let's call him S). He told us to visit the plant, collect the data whatever needed for the project and didn't mind work from home. Now our home was a 3 BHK apartment allocated to 5 students in the staff quarters. And S lived in the apartment in front of ours (project partners were random😅).
So finally after another week, we ended up just going to the plant on Tuesdays and Fridays, because we had to put in the attendance (along with proxies for the week😉).

Now comes the best part of PS - the weekends. In a place like Nagda, there are only three possibilities to enjoy your weekend:
1. House parties on the roof of the apartments hoping that guards don't hear us.
2. Going Indore/Ujjain for a movie or food.
3. Visiting this small city which didn't offer much.

Well we did all of this as we had 8 weekends. There was one more option, working on the project, but as said by a great procrastinator - "we can do it later".😂

So it was all day movies/series, taking a walk or eating. And it was not just us. There were many others with same scenarios. I think that now you must have understood that most of the internships are just flash in the pan.

But the project deadline was near and we were far from the end. Some of the "upper class" people (catagorised on the basis of studiousness, aka Ghots) had completed their projects. And they were already preparing their reports.
And this is when we realized that we need to complete our project or else we might get a bad grade (this grade plays a major role in CGPA).
It was the Friday of the sixth week when we actually thought in some direction and finally visited the plants for the data in the seventh week and successfully finished our project on time. At the end of this project, I and S became very good friends. 

( p.s. - most of the results were fake or miscalculated, but we managed to prove the data correct.😅)

To summarize, I had an enjoyable and fun PS, visited a lot of places, enjoyed various delicacies of Indore and street food of Ujjain and my project presentation went quite well too. So, I believe I had all sorts of experiences on this internship and learnt to deal with people and situations.
That's all for today.

Try to have as much fun as possible in your internships along with the work.

Also, your suggestions are welcome and help me in selecting the topic for my next blog.
Keep reading and I will keep writing.

Cheers.✌️
All the best.☺️

The phase of Confusion

Hey everyone,
Ever felt that your life is just going on a random path, of which you don't seem to have control. I think all of us have felt that way at some point of time and many of us are still on that phase.
You feel that you don't know where you are going and where will you end up eventually. This is me right now and my third year of college has just ended.
When I stepped into College, everything felt so clear. I had goals.
I knew where I wanted to be. But as I progressed, I learnt about various paths, faced various decision I had to make, met with a lot of people having different opinions. All of this and some of my own mistakes made that goal hazy as approached it. And now I doubt that do I actually want that?
Is that where I want to spend the rest of my life?

While talking to people, I realized that it is our generation that is facing this problem majorly. Why?....because we have lot of career options? Or because we are not sure if we will be well of eventually or not?
There is not one but many such fears responsible for our digression from our goal.
You see, I started this blog in hope to share my feelings and experiences. But ultimately got distracted in the second year. So why am I continuing it now? Because I think I have something which I need to sort.
I don't know which way I want to go. I am not sure where I wanna be five years from now.
But I hope to find it soon.☺️
And I hope you all find your paths soon and if you already have, give everything you can to reach your goal.

I didn't write much but I tried to express what I felt and do not panic if you feel confused. Just keep looking as I am.
And if any of you have any suggestions to help me or my blog, do comment.

All the Best.😉
Cheers.✌️