{"id":2679,"date":"2012-08-10T19:53:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T14:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internshala.com\/blog\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2016-06-10T16:52:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T11:22:29","slug":"summer-internship-university-hyderabad-ayush-iit-kharagpur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internshala.com\/blog\/summer-internship-university-hyderabad-ayush-iit-kharagpur\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Internship with University of Hyderabad — Ayush from IIT Kharagpur"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wildcard Entry for: –\u00a0 <\/strong>9th August 2012<\/p>\n

Name of the intern: –\u00a0<\/strong> Ayush<\/p>\n

Institute: –<\/strong>\u00a0 IIT Kharagpur<\/p>\n

Organization interned with: –\u00a0<\/strong> University of Hyderabad<\/p>\n

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So it was decided! I was finally going to Hyderabad for my summer project.<\/p>\n

Flashback: University of Hyderabad was a very unfamiliar name. I had never heard of it before until I was selected in the list of qualified students for summer project through IAS. I was desperately mailing many professors in many institutes but most of them replied in the negative. The coincidence was such that I mailed two professors in the University of Hyderabad and both of them agreed.<\/p>\n

Now came the difficult part: which Professor should I choose? So I chose experience over quality and chose the more experienced professor. He also happened to be the Dean of the department. So all my tension went away immediately. I finally reached the campus after a tiring train journey. My parents were very worried about my accommodation, because the administration didn’t give me any accommodation. Luckily the research scholar under whom I worked asked me to stay with him! So accommodation problem was a gone issue now.<\/p>\n

The research scholar was a little strict in the initial days, but later he became a really bad senior. One bad news circulated during those days, that my professor would not be there in the campus for around 15 days. I really got disheartened because I wanted to work under him and not under any research fellow! Nevertheless, the zeal inside me was always waiting to embrace new work. I started working on the experimental part of chemistry but didn’t find it interesting as my research scholar was more interested in extra-academic activities and most of the time he would either be busy with his cell phone or with friends. I was like a puppet for him, which I realized later.<\/p>\n

I stayed in the research scholar’s hostel, so there was no one my age. I felt comforted in the lab only because I was never idle there. The first Sunday was coming and the planning started on Saturday. Obviously the research fellow was way too senior to me and I didn’t liked his presence much from the first day itself, so I decided I would explore the kingdom of Hyderabad alone. I went to many places of tourist attraction on subsequent Sundays and also watched my first 3D movie at IMax. The other lab people were very friendly to me, especially a post-doc student from Kerala who helped me in many activities.<\/p>\n

One day I got the news that my professor had arrived. The very first day I went to my professor and asked to him if he could assign me any work personally. He told me to learn a software which previously I was not able to understand as I didn’t put much effort. But now I wanted to work under my professor, so I worked very hard to understand that software in detail. After a few days my professor was very pleased to know that I learnt the software and gave me some more work.<\/p>\n

On the remaining days I worked on that project day and night. It wasn’t that tough, but as I was an amateur to this kind of work it was quite heavy for me. I completed my project work on the very last day of my stay in lab. My professor was very happy with my work and so was I.<\/p>\n

University of Hyderabad gained respect in my heart after the I got to know more about it there. It was one of the best universities in Asia for studying and doing research in Chemistry. My total experience was close to awesome. I am still in contact with my professor now. Most importantly, my research experience changed my views about chemistry. I didn’t get a good rank in JEE, so I opted for chemistry in IIT Khargapur, hoping that I would change my branch later. But there was no great effort from my side. My mindset about chemistry totally changed after I did my project. I am now thinking of doing further studies in chemistry and becoming a pioneer in this field of science.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Was this interesting? If yes,\u00a0please like the post on Facebook (below) and help Ayush become winner of the week<\/strong>\u00a0and win the prize (Rs. 1,000\/-) that he truly deserves!<\/p>\n

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