On the very first day of my intern, who would have thought that I'd end up meeting a senior, Himanshu Singla, from our own college, in so far a place? I had seen him on countless occasions before but this was the first time that we formally got acquainted with each other. There were also two other guys from NIT Raipur and some MBA final year students, one of whom was from IIT Roorkee. Not to brag but it pleases me to think that the first thing the HR officer, who conducted our introductory session at Bharat Forge, said was that she needn't give us the normal advises as the names of the colleges were already 'so big'!...
This was the first time I was getting a proper industrial exposure, and I must admit a sweet one at that. On top of this, in spite of being the junior most in the group, I was happy to have been given the responsibility of getting our training papers signed by the concerned people. It was an extremely minor thing but it gave me the first taste of holding some actual 'position' in an organisation.
We successfully finished our three day induction programme, which had left us battered having to walk more than ten kilometers every day to visit the various shop-floors situated at different ends of a widely spread out plant. We submitted our report and were again showered with compliments like 'well-compiled' and 'nicely done'!...
Today while returning from work, staring at those ever so familiar streets of Pune through the dark car windows, I had a flash back of the day when I'd first traveled those very streets almost two decades back, trying to get admission in the kinder garden of the Bishops' School. Man-o-man! Haven't we come a long way? Life's come a full circle; completing my schooling here, having to leave home after getting admission into IIT and then returning to my hometown as a Summer Trainee in Asia's largest forging company! Everything just seems to have passed in the blink of an eye!...
Now, Himanshu bhaiyya and I having been allocated the same department of MQC (Metallurgical Quality Control), are looking forward to our main project in BFL. But all this aside, I feel like something inside me has drastically changed this summer. Even my neighbors have noticed the topography of my face being much more relaxed than usual. It may be because in the past year, I've let out everything I had built up in my soul since a long time. I've done everything that I wanted to do and have tried to prove everything that I wanted to prove. I feel absolutely free, strong and focused on my future.
As usual there are a lot of mountains still left to climb including my preparation for the Common Admission Test (CAT), which is supposed to be one of the toughest exams in the world, and obviously improving my academic pointers, along with winning some extra-curricular activities! There is also the question of next year's intern, but that's a long time ahead. As far as CAT is concerned, I'd heard people say the same things about IIT-JEE being tough and nearly impossible to crack, but some of my friends and I did it and proved everyone wrong, didn't we?!!...
So, it's time to harness the power and the true potential of the human mind because now there's fortunately nothing holding me back, and I refuse to be judged on anything else other than my true credentials. So, when all of us meet up again at college this July, with the experience of various research centers and companies like BFL, SAIL, BARC, HINDALCO, HZL, etc. behind us, I'll ensure that I remain in the same state of mind as I am in right now, relaxed but confident. Signing off, I'd like to say my patented million dollar statement once again:-
BE THE FORCE!!!...
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