10th of may, end of 4th sem and beginning of a new aeon.
I was going to IIT Madras for sumer internship. Madras?? summers in madras? boy! this period is going to be tough! People around me were not impressed. But I had two satisfactory reasons to go - Networking: the most fascinating field of CSE and my topic of work and second I wasn't alone
12th of may, we were here in Chennai. Me, Alok, Deepanshu and PKV. Don't want to go to the details of journey (better forget them). hmm the city was OK, got a nice place to stay as PG. Landlords were very caring, no problem with food and accommodation. So far so good. It was weekend so take light.
14th of may, first day at IIT campus. Our home was 10kms away. How to go there?? Bus!!
Local Bus! I imagined the scene inside that jam-packed, suffused box of tin running mercilessly bustling down the road. O God-Help!
Anyhow, I had imagined far too insecure, it wasn't that bad. So we were here in the campus almost safe and secure. Our Coordinator for internship Mr.subbu told his plans. It was going to be a 6 day week and there was an interview session next day, may 15th the first working day. OK fine;we left. Deepanshu wanted to meet his friend in some hostel.But it was scorching outside and guess what? Someone told us that hostel was just at 5 minutes walking distance! Man! We were walking and distance seemed to be never ending! 5 minutes had just changed to eternity!!
Sun was giving us a hard time. Nevertheless we reached our destination. wooosh!Now, the evening time, time to go back home. Wow! Home! BUT there's the same devilish bus and this time its exactly the same as i had imagined in the morning!!
And now the story enters a vicious circle. Every day same routine plus 10 hours at the LAB. But I was enjoying my work. There was really a lot to learn. Learned not only the correct dimensions of Research and Development but also the spirit of Team Work.
And one day subbu announces that professor wants to see our work progress.
Great! We did our best to demonstrate the impetus and Bingo! Prof was impressed!
He gave us an invitation to attend some workshop in Coimbatore and Ooty! Did he say Ooty???
Yeah! Our response was uncontrollable! From the very same day our project got a sparkle! Had not it been for Ooty we couldn't have imagined to finished it that fast!
Well well, the final day arrived and we are off to Coimbatore. The presentation was after our professor 's address. He is such a visionary and so impressive a personality that researchers just cant wait to work on his ideas. There we realized the substantially of that workshop and efforts put behind to make it successful. Professor had shown an ample trust in our abilities so our demonstration had to be a hit.
Now it was our turn. Started of very well, half of the demo was over and then it struck!!!!
Damn-it! Internet Connection problem!! All of us were Dumb! Prof not happy! FLOP!
Demo was over! None of us impressed! Forget Ooty!!
But as they say, every story has a happy ending and if the ending isn't happy then the story hasn't ended!
So in the lunch time prof asked us to give another Demo. Yes!! This was our chance!! We were all on to it with a flash! And BINGO!! WE DID IT!! Prof was the first person to clap!!
Man! how great one feels when all the efforts end in brilliance!
And the very next hour we were off to Ooty!!!!
