Summer Project!

Have you ever seen a small kid chew more than it can eat?

Well I am that kid. DNA showed me 2 options. A small chocolate gooey pastry and an orange cheese cake (both from 210 degrees. The best cake shop at churchgate)... chocolate gooey I had already had before (and it was small) so I choose a huge chunk of Orange cheese cake. Just to try it out. When I was asked to cut out a piece for myself I cut a huge one. I was greedy. And to top it I stuffed myself with all of it in one go. I was stuck. Stuck with lotsa cheese cake in my mouth... Can’t eat it, can’t throw it out (throw it out coz it tasted yuck!). Not even mentioning the amazing calories that come with it. Before I get side tracked with the cheese cake imagery, I’ll come to the point. The cheese cake is my The great Indian Summer project. Stuck with it for life and death.

What is a summer project.
Professor: Where you get your first tryst with corporate life.
Placement Co-ordinator: It's a waste of my time
Parents: Whatever it is, should be back by 7.00 in the evening
Friends: Who cares! What’s your pay like? No pay, cool join the gang!
Me: Uhhh!!! Hmmmm....... I think...... I dunno... lets go there and see!

So now that you are clear as crystal with the summer project funda let me take it forward.

May ‘07
1st week: Didnt know who to talk to. By the end of it I and my boss decided on a topic only to realise a couple of other summer trainees already savaged my meaty project around a month back. So next Monday I was as clean a slate that I could ever be.

Next week: The boss decided a project and explained me the concept which till date (project submission this Friday) I have no clue about. I like sheep in the herd, nodded along.

This continued for the next 2 weeks without any issues. It was a comfortable stay at DNA with rounds of coffees and other unmentionables* throughout the days. Endless chattering and office gossips took up a lot of my time. And before I could realise a month was over! And to top it all I got my heavy stack of 500 rs notes as summers internship stipend... Yipppeeee, not bad at all!

June ‘07
4th June is what I call the day of Happy Realisation (1st, 2nd and 3rd were Friday, Saturday and Sunday, no work happens on these days). Happy realisation happened because it was then that it touched my ever so naive brain that the summer trainees before us have made PRESENTATIONS and left! LEFT! To leave this coffee vending machine dominated office you need to PRESENT your project and sumbit a HARDCOPY of it too. Well to do all this u need a PROJECT... and I have none. I HAVE to make one.

That was the time that I sat down and took note. Of all the things I had to do and all the things I did not understand. Well the latter had the maximum bullets. But there was no time to UNDERSTAND my project! None the less I continued till what has come the last 2 weeks of my so called summer project. The boss has spoken now. Project analysis by end of this week i.e Friday (coz Saturdays we don’t work u see). And I am as screwed as the screw on your coffee table. And with all this pressure and tension and stress the only thing that I can feel passionate about is writing this post here. I sat to do my work and here I am, doing something much more creative. Atleast thats wht I suppose. So wish me luck and I go for slaughter this Friday!

*= to know more about what are the unmentionables call me!