At my university you get ample opportunities to apply for internship( I am talking in reference with the holiday break time). After applying to many organisation not related to my discipline(its a complete different story that I shall cover in a separate blog) I finally relented to applying one related to my field. I was called for interview completely convinced I won't make it. The whole 'I-aint-a-Coder' slogan literally yells out aloud when you are a system engineering applying to such a firm. Well I got in. Lesson learned: Don't underestimate yourself.
My first few days started with me banging my head (figuratively) on the PHP language. Tutorial searches I am pretty sure I am an expert at that by now. Anyway I did learn some basics. For a person who is revolted by just the sight of the Turbo C programming book its a great feat believe me. Lesson learned: PHP isnt that difficult.
Later I did step on some toes when I announced that this is something I can do at home too. I was after a lot of discussion in fancy conference room was give in options in what to do.I opted Technical Documentations(trusting my writer's instinct and betting on it)Lesson learned: Don't suggest-it bites back.
I found I do enjoy Technical Documentation. I find it fun. Overall I am enjoying my time here although I would appreciate other interns's company. I am the only intern at NCR. The people are friendly and easy to talk to. My cubicle is I guess the most clean one - cause Duh I don't do much work. Lesson Learned: You might enjoy something you thought not.
Sometimes there is lot of yawning and I am tempted to fall flat asleep on my face but then there is always lots of tea consumption. Lesson Learned: Now I know what Dad meant by heavy tea consumption.
Overall I like my time here... lets see how the rest of the time goes.
Anam, This is a hilarious one and loved the sarcasm! But this line "Lesson learned: Don't suggest-it bites back." is provoking me to have another career counseling session in that fancy conference room!! :P
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Haha very funny...another Career Counselling session would just make me more sorry for being in system engineering =D and hey not everything was an intended sarcasm! =p
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