Internship @ 113 Fahrenheit

Yes, I have visited NCR. 

I may not have visited the Qutab Minar, the various monuments of Delhi, even the India Gate but yes I have visited NCR. 

The last few weeks of my life were spent roaming here and there in Delhi for internship. Being an marketing intern has its perks. Even though I have gained very less in terms of skills during my time here, I can honestly say "Yeah, I have been to Delhi". 

Our work is very simple. Me and my partner, Abhishek has to meet the authority of many RWA society and collect some data so that my internship organisation can use it to run their business. 

Of course, we also have to analyse and make decisions (being a market analyst intern) based on our data but that being the boring part, I will not include in my writing. 

Our group were supposed to do only 3 zones of NCR i.e West Delhi, North Delhi and Dwarka but I ended up doing few more zones by helping other interns.

The travelling will come to the end after this week but the journey which I took after not choosing for HCL will last forever. 

My first visit (just after getting warned for not working at all) was to Saket. Me and Akshat (another intern from different group) got down near the metro and searched for our targets. Luckily, we located our first RWA very easily but did not get the data as the president of the society was busy in some work and told us to meet him after 2 hours (as if!) . After the disappointment, we walked for some kilometers and collected some data. Some president were there, some didn't want to talk. 

First RWA :)

While we were visiting societies after societies, we came in contact with a secretary who wanted to put an ad hoarding the next day itself. For some time, I got excited and thought I got a client for my organization. Then it struck upon me that the societies were not our clients but just a medium for our clients. Whatever excitement I had for my internship, it came down that day. 

The RWA which broke my heart

Still, work is a work. I woke up the next day and made a pact to complete all my given targets and get the bonus of visiting most of the places in Delhi, NCR. This was probably the only motivation left for me other than my internship marks. 

The first visit with my partner (for our zone) was a very good experience. We were made to sit comfortably, had cold drinking waters and they communicated with us very well. It's been more than a month, have finished collecting data for more than 200 RWAs, I can't remember anyone else treating us that well. 

First RWA collected with my partner, Abhishek. 

Some of the places where I went are as follows: 

Vasundhra - Ghaziabad

Greater Noida

Ramesh Nagar

Moti Nagar

Janakpuri B Block 

Vishal Enclave

Mukharjee Nagar - North Delhi

Hudson Line - North Delhi

Shalimar Bagh - North Delhi

Dwarka Sector - 12 

Dwarka - the city is big and very well planned. Didn't have much chance to meet all the president and secretaries of the RWAs as they are not easily available unlike other zones. Kinda crazy but I did visit almost all the sectors of Dwarka. From Sector 1 to 23! 

Saket - South Delhi

The societies in Delhi seems quite similar except in places like Dwarka and Greater Noida. It's unfortunate that I did not get the chance to explore East Delhi, Gurgaon and Faridabad as my schedule didn't allow me to go. Visiting West Delhi, North Delhi, South Delhi, Dwarka, Ghaziabad and Greater Noida that too @ 45 Degree Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) was quite an experience. I hope never to repeat this ever again... Lol!

There are quite a few things I have learned during my internship. Will write about them in the next post. 

Internship

Finally, my first year of college have ended and it's time for my internship period. The last semester went as quickly as possible and the only thing I remember is the vacation I enjoyed at home and the month of February where we had AYF, MTC + other events. 

We basically had nothing to do regarding studies. Advertisement and Promotion is probably the only subject which I remember. Been troubling how I have not understood main papers like Distribution and Financial Management even after completion of my semester exams. 

Now that everything is over, I have to do some practical work in internship. The last time I had my internship was during my engineering time. It was a two weeks poor joke. 

This time it's different. Got selected in HCL Infosystem and Glovision Media. After a thoughtful consideration I decided on Glovision Media as I wanted to explore a new form of business, roam Delhi, NCR and simply did not want to sit inside the office and work on a computer 10 - 4, 5 days a week.

I have started my work. Even though the office is a bit small, I have good hopes that I will learn new things relating to outdoor advertising.

Amity Military Training Camp

Very long. I know. The last time I wrote something in this blog was way back in October. Several months have passed and not a single word came out. The most annoying part is I checked this blog every week. Every time, I opened the dashboard, look at the latest post and close again.

All right. Enough. No more ranting. 

February was quick. F#@king quick. Lot's happened inside the college. College fest, lesser studies, shorter days and of Course our Military Training Camp. 

After lot's of request and running here and there I finally joined the camp with my classmates. Going without them was not an option for me. 

I woke up early that morning, did not bath, met friends at D block for breakfast. It was good to see everyone excited for the training camp.

Some of my classmates were even surprised to see me with my bag packed. Duh...As if!

We reached Amity, Manesar (where MTC takes place) in the afternoon. Soon, after checking for non-permitted items, we were led to our tents. My tent mates consisted of Puneet, Arpit, Ashu and Jayant. Our's was the only tent in which 5 members were there. Rest had 8 students per tent. 

Tents where we stayed.

Tent mates: Ashu, Arpit, Jayant and Puneet. 

In the evening, we were shown live performances of dogs performing various stunts. Before that we were also taught about herbs and some uses of plants and how they can benefit us in our daily life. The last I remember was about a herb which was supposed to increase our memory!

Dogs lining up for stunts. 

The next day was hard. We woke up early and had to run many rounds as part of our physical morning training. As usual, I started coughing after some rounds and took the measures of not running. After breakfast, we started to practice parade which was going to be competed in the last day of our camp.

Our platoon was instructed by Subedar B.K Singh. All the platoons were lead by my friend, Parthiban. After all the parades and work outs, we ended the day by going for a trekking. 

Friends with Instructors.

After tiring two days, many of us felt not to go for morning exercise. Some went, some did not. Then after breakfast, we had our shooting activities with Air-guns (duh!) . I tried my best to replicate the best of snipers but after all the practices and aims I could only hit once with the best score of 2.

Batchmates gearing for shooting activity.

Vaibhav, Aditya and Jayant trying to beat my score of 2. They got 0 :D

Soon after the shooting activities we went for completing the obstacle bars and nets that were fixed there in the ground. There were nothing special in the obstacle nets. Running 200 meters was more difficult than clearing those. 

Dishant taking a nap while clearing the bar :)

Is Rishabh meditating? 

In between our activities, we were also led to an auditorium to hear some ex-serviceman speak about some random topics, which I hardly recollect. Probably, the auditorium activity was the most uninteresting thing we did in the whole 5 days camp. 

Duh!

The next two days were pretty good as we had lot's of activities. We had our rock climbing, rappelling and Land - Para sailing activities. Honestly, flying in the air is way better than walking or running. No wonder, the birds always looks happy. 

Took a selfie while climbing. It was scary!

That's how you do rappelling. 

Weeeeeeeeeeeee!

 We had our Parade competition on the last day. We did perform exceptional well and were deserving winners but the girls from Platoon 1 took away the award. I even expected our tent to get the cleanest tent prize also but it didn't happened. 

Cleanest tent? Yes!

We did have some dancing session on the last night. The less I write about it, the better. 

Photo bombing Vaibhav and his besties :D

Overall, it was an experience I wouldn't forget it for a long time. I joined the camp after a lots of request and it was well worth it. This is probably one of the "must-thing" an Amitian should do during their stay in Amity.