A WiSE SUMMER

This summer experience was truly something worth writing. Normally summer or winter it does not make any difference to my being. Life goes on as usual, mundane most of the time with occasional streak of jovialness. What made it special this time is was the stint with Wipro. I was with Wipro as a summer trainee. This is a ritual in all B-schools in India, well almost all. These eight weeks of internship was something which every student want to treasure for reasons official (read work related) or un-official (read outside work). For me it was the latter. Rarely, do you come across people with whom you can get along so easily from day one. May be because we thought what the heck it’s only for 8 weeks so why bother much about compatibility issues. And so we mingled. We talked. We laughed. We joked. It was all for fun. Tea-breaks, Lunch-breaks, Forced tea-breaks, Bored-lets-have-a-break tea-breaks - we had breaks of all nature. And as if office breaks were not enough we even had out-of-office breaks (a movie outing & a beer-outing) if we can call it that. We spoke about movies, books, various college affairs, exchanged thoughts & ideas on them, and more than all about summer projects. Crazy ideas, Practical ideas, Useless ideas and Valuable ideas they were all there. It came from all quarters. Sample some - call up other summer trainees as the CEO of so & so company and asks for their reports or how about hacking the database of companies for previous summer reports, the list of weird ideas goes on. In between all these we slogged. Although no one of us accepted it was understood. The 8 summer weeks just flitted past us. But we did manage to color some moments of those and will treasure it forever. Atleast I will. Thanks folks...