“Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." George Bernard Shaw, an Irish dramatist has rightly said that everyone should create their own life more than finding it.
Having a graduation degree in Economics, I did not harbour hope when one of the most prominent IT companies in India was established to be visiting our campus for a summer internship in the HR domain. Cognizant was expected to pick engineers, and being an art student, I was pleasantly surprised to get a shortlist for the same.
“Sell your senior”, they call it. I got a very funny submission for this task from one of these juniors and I planned to meet him. He was almost as curious as I was when I had joined MDI. He asked many questions but one that made me reflect on my internship experience was – “Did you always want to go into consulting?”
“The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.” - Hellen Keller
What is your destination in life? The meaning, the very purpose of your life? The Endgame? This question has troubled so many of us, for such a long time. Many of us actually learn the answer at a very nascent stage of life and others like me, well, we struggle to find our spot. After joining SRM University as a computer science major, I thought I had found my calling. And I did, at least for a couple of months.
On a rainy evening in September last year, when the Placement Committee announced, in their inimitable style, the beginning of the Summer Placement season, a surge of excitement came over me. However, after two gruelling and unsuccessful months of interviews, when Robert Bosch Engineering And Business Solutions came knocking for HR Interns, I was ready but not overly optimistic.
Some companies are humungous, many are profitable, quite a few are innovative but only a handful manage to be all of this and much more – “A Legacy”. These were my grandfather’s words as he was reminiscing his experience at TATA Steel the day I was leaving for my summer internship. So, for me personally, this internship was as much of consequential emotionally as it was professionally.
“Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." George Bernard Shaw, an Irish dramatist has rightly said that everyone should create their own life more than finding it.
Having a graduation degree in Economics, I did not harbour hope when one of the most prominent IT companies in India was established to be visiting our campus for a summer internship in the HR domain. Cognizant was expected to pick engineers, and being an art student, I was pleasantly surprised to get a shortlist for the same.
“Sell your senior”, they call it. I got a very funny submission for this task from one of these juniors and I planned to meet him. He was almost as curious as I was when I had joined MDI. He asked many questions but one that made me reflect on my internship experience was – “Did you always want to go into consulting?”
“The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.” - Hellen Keller
What is your destination in life? The meaning, the very purpose of your life? The Endgame? This question has troubled so many of us, for such a long time. Many of us actually learn the answer at a very nascent stage of life and others like me, well, we struggle to find our spot. After joining SRM University as a computer science major, I thought I had found my calling. And I did, at least for a couple of months.
On a rainy evening in September last year, when the Placement Committee announced, in their inimitable style, the beginning of the Summer Placement season, a surge of excitement came over me. However, after two gruelling and unsuccessful months of interviews, when Robert Bosch Engineering And Business Solutions came knocking for HR Interns, I was ready but not overly optimistic.
Some companies are humungous, many are profitable, quite a few are innovative but only a handful manage to be all of this and much more – “A Legacy”. These were my grandfather’s words as he was reminiscing his experience at TATA Steel the day I was leaving for my summer internship. So, for me personally, this internship was as much of consequential emotionally as it was professionally.
