Thursday, June 4, 2009

I've signed in and trying to keep up with my monthly blog post. An eventful month I must say. Everything is so uncertain right now. A month back I had no idea what I'd be doing this summer, I was thinking I might end up teaching(again) for the 3rd semester in a row. And then one day it all happened and the internship came up. A few weeks of nail biting and checking the phone every ten minutes for the HR to call and talk about paperwork followed. Once that was done and everything confirmed on paper, a couple of weeks of searching for a place to stay followed. I don't know what I would have done without google maps, and their street view option. I had fun dragging that little stick figure along the streets of TX to look at the place where I'm going to work.

I'm so used to studying now, I wonder how work life is going to be. I'm guessing its going to be different from India where I was among a bunch of campus recruits and I had people my own age to goof off with during lunch and after work.

I'm excited, nervous, a bit apprehensive since I'm going to a new city and a whole lot of other things. I'm packed and ready, and unable to sleep even though I'm dead tired. I'm supposed to report to work at 8 AM every morning which is going to be a challenge. My day starts at 11,especially the last two semesters, which is like a year. I had lab classes to teach and office hours only post 12 30 pm. I'm guessing I'm going to be asleep at 10 and up at 6 every morning this summer! Wish me luck on that front!

4 comments:

Nikhilesh Murthy said...

Goof off here !!! :) All da best...

Addict said...

good luck :-)

Ne said...

thanks people! :)

Gradwolf said...

congrats and good luck!

Internship in the US, more often than not, can be the most rewarding experience. And it would be the best period of your grad school years. Awesome work, lots to learn, no pressure and you can coolly say,"I don't know to do this, can you help." Hahahaha, I loved my summer internship man! I wish I get to relive summer of '08 sometime! At least my experience was like this.

P.S
I got a Shop It to Me offer from you. I didn't know what to do. Ahem. :p