Summer Internship with Windals Precision Pvt. Ltd. — Basanti from BITS Pilani
Wildcard entry for: – 24th August 2012
Name of the intern: – Basanti
Institute: – BITS Pilani
Organization interned with: – Windals Precision Pvt. Ltd.
I did my first internship in the summer after the end of my second year in college. I wanted to do an internship in my hometown Nagpur itself because I wanted to stay at home at least during the summer break. I got my internship at a mechanical company and I am an electronics student, so you can just imagine how out-of-place I must have been feeling. The good part was that I wasn’t alone in it. It was 4 of us, me and 3 other guys and we called ourselves the Electro Dudes. I was out of place here too. I am a girl not a dude! There were other students but they were from Mechanical and Civil branches. In the start it did feel a little strange because I didn’t know a single soul out there. But all of us gradually became very good friends while facing the rough conditions together (it may seem like I am exaggerating but trust me I am not!).
So the office building was under renovation and we literally didn’t even have chairs to sit on. The place allocated to us gradually became a dump of bricks and stones with dust all around. Then we moved to a cabin located in the inventory of the company. To reach it we had to dodge workers and machines. During lunch break since we didn’t have enough chairs, some of us used to sit on the armrest of the chairs already occupied by our friends. But somehow all this never mattered since we were busy joking around and sharing our food.
We worked on two projects in the company. The first one was based on the study of electronic sensors used as poka yokes in the company. The second one was the creation of an inventory management software in Excel. The work was good except for the part where we had to understand the manufacturing of tractor components. First of all we weren’t interested and second of all walking through the factory was like walking through the devil’s workshop. The temperature of Nagpur was a soaring 46 degrees Celsius and on top of it the factory had huge machines working and welding processes going on which made the situation worse. Masked workers continuously worked on welding machines and we had no idea how they survived the intense heat all around them. Situations like these you show you the side of man which can adapt to survive even the worst of conditions just so that he can earn bread and butter for his family back home.
Though the internship conditions are sounding cruel but we did have our share of fun. Like being the 20 year olds who play in the sand outside the factory waiting for the free samosas to come or in making fun of our mentor for having Facebook pictures of girls stored on his computer. I think the best part for me was that at the end of the day I could go back to my home, be with my folks and have food made by my mom. I have been living outside my home since I was 16 years old and summers are the only time I get the time to go back home. I think it depends on you how much you want to learn from an internship. I am writing this article while doing another internship in Bangalore and all I want to say is take time to balance family and work; both are an integral part of our life. Enjoy both of them no matter what the situation is, as the title of the movie that we interns saw to celebrate the end of the internship says, “ZIndagi Na Milegi Dobara” (You won’t get life back again).
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