{"id":570,"date":"2011-08-07T20:12:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T14:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internshala.com\/blog\/?p=570"},"modified":"2012-03-26T01:12:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T19:42:40","slug":"summer-internship-story-daily-060811-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internshala.com\/blog\/summer-internship-story-daily-060811-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Internship with Schlumberger – Abhishek Joshi from IIT Madras"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Daily Winner for: –\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a06th<\/sup> August 2011<\/p>\n

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

Institute: –\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0IIT Madras<\/p>\n

Organization interned with: –\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Schlumberger Asia Services Limited<\/p>\n

It all started when we were asked to fly down to Mumbai for an induction program after which we were asked to disperse to our designated locations.<\/p>\n

Mumbai as it has been always a lively city, so 4 days flew by in no time, I got to know all the interns of my batch there. From there I was asked to go in a remote city of Barmer in Rajasthan. I was supposed to fly to Jodhpur from Mumbai and then catch a train from there on, but as it turned out to be my train got cancelled and I was stuck at Jodhpur. I took an overly crowded passenger train from Jodhpur to reach Barmer, it was the most pathetic journey of my life as I was sitting in front of a stinking toilet for more than 6 hours. But what followed over the next 6 weeks was awesome.<\/p>\n

On the first day of my field intern I was taken on an oil rig, I had never seen such a thing before, I was working in an envelope of sand dunes and the landscape is purely unimaginable. Once while having food, there was sand storm and I had to run with my plate in search of some shelter!! Those experiences were mind blowing.<\/p>\n

I was working with the experienced engineers to help them perform well logging, staying in Bunk houses, which were no less than 5 stars, with the cook serving whatever you order. I remember someone ordered fish in the dry city of Barmer and the cook was running in the entire city to get a fresh water fish!!<\/p>\n

It was the month of May and June, mercury soared as high as 52 degrees but to be honest I learned a\u00a0 lot there in 6 weeks, I was under the guidance of the ex-IITs and they all treated me as a part of my family, cracking jokes at the middle of the night, cock tail parties, dancing in the desert in the middle of the night (once u r on a high, u dont know what u r doing!!) and camel safaries, were the main highlights of the intern!!<\/p>\n

I really hope that I get to do some more interns of such kind, where I enjoyed a lot and at the same time gained immense practical knowledge<\/p>\n

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