Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Internship woes

Some things are just the way they are. We do not question why the sky is blue(or white when cloudy, or whatever), why sugar is sweet or why bk is fat. Its just in their nature to be what they are. You're probably wondering why i'm talking so much crap now..well, so am i; so join the club.

Everyone in my coll seem to think its trendy to do internships and/or (yes, there are some psychos out there who are doing both..kareemangya for one (dont ask me, I dont know what kareemangya means)) projects during the summer vacations. When everyone at coll agree on something, it'll probably turn out that there is something disastrously wrong about it. I should have realised this and not forced myself to join them in the mad scramble to land up interns, but well one cant always be wise and imba (nope, not even me). Hindsight sees the farthest; I now realise that there are very few useful things that come out of an internship; well actually only one thing, and thats the pay cheque. Shashi would say that I was too institutionalised and was in bad need of disillusionment..he would have quite a few other things to say too, but no one really cares for anything he says, least of all himself. So I wont bore you with that stuff.
What I will bore you with is an account of my internship experience, that is (unfortunately) still two weeks away from conclusion. My daily schedule for this 'vacation' looks something like this:
Morning: 7.00 ninju messages 'come to the court quickly da dog'
Morning: 7.30 go to basketball court (quickly da dog)
Morning: 9.00 come back exhausted (after starring in the day's play as most imba player)
Morning(still??): 10.00 arrive for work
Several millenia later: 8.00 pm still at work
Here's one important requisit to be part of an embedded systems startup: do not, by any means, have a life (if you want to know what a person without a life would look like, stop by at NITK hostels 3rd block room no:%& and take a look at arindham). I am forced to work for about 8-10 hrs a day at this place. So you can very well imagine what the guys who run this company are like. I come back every evening totally exhausted, eat and crash. Period. And they call this a holiday.
I have been enduring six bloody weeks of this and am at my wits end now (if you want to know what a person at his wits end looks like, this is what you do. If you are a ps-ite, try to imagine bk answering a question put to him by sundari ma'am. If you are a nitkian, imagine
adi trying to explain that he is not gay. If you are ponky, look in the mirror. If you are anyone else, use your god damned imagination and bugger off..btw you cannnot be part of my readership if you are in this category, anyway)
If you still doubt that I am crazy, where are you interning this summer?
To the rest, dont blame me. Blame it on the internship.

6 comments:

Paddyman said...

haha atleast you play basketball in the morning. I just wake up at 745 and start for internship at 815 and reach there by 9. And get back at 7. Internships everywhere are equally sad

Vineeth said...

First of all kareemangaya means Black Monkey! though i dunno y xactly !!

Secondly i see that u made a habit of includin ur best pal Bk .... nice :D

Also every internship is bad/boring! But they dint say it was interesting ... i think all of us assumed it 2 b. :D

Atleast u mite(i think u do) know what u doin .. unlike me n gobax !! who just look at some "charlie bit me" video and laugh away !! that is the only fun part in r project !!

Dipankar said...

u forgot gulati ,, doing 3(TI +IBM+finance)

srinaik2020 said...

kareemangya doing internship + project?!
Now that is new :D

He is doing 2 quarter projects which effectively is like half a project :O


LOL i understand the torture!!
Its like worse than even the worst days in coll!

Half-Light said...

Some shata this peace is telling. Silent killer, sneakily finishing up some multiple projects :O

Unknown said...

i start workin at 8 and work till 8 in the evening.... so i guess i am the worsth in the lot.... but then i luvv wat i am doing....so.... doesnt really matter....and did u learn anythin out of ur intern? many of my pals didnt! :)