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.☺️