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+layout: post
+title: "Summer Diaries: Slice"
+category: summer2022
+tags: [wona, column]
+author: "Kritik Jain"
+image: kritik-j-intern-cover.png
+excerpt: "Last summer, I interned as a Software Development Engineer with Slice. No, Katrina Kaif never endorsed it. That was a soft beverage company. This is a fintech startup redesigning financial experiences for Gen Z and Millennials."
+---
+
+_I had impulsively applied at WONA to write my intern experience but had no intention of doing so before the PPO results were declared._
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+_(Disclaimer: Last summer, I interned as a Software Development Engineer with **Slice**. No, Katrina Kaif never endorsed it. That was a soft beverage company. This is a fintech startup redesigning financial experiences for Gen Z and Millennials._
+
+_Mind you, this article will not be one of those motivational steroids to get you to start coding, nor does it entail a rejection backstory. This isn’t a paid promotion either. Haven’t we had enough of those on LinkedIn already?_
+
+_Kindly read this as a memoir on the metamorphic preview of life after college assuming you’re still here.)_
+
+It is 5:30 am, and I just sat in my cab to the airport. 40kms, and soon I’ll be out of this city(Bangalore) for the good part of a year(at least). The fusty seat covered in grime seems at odds with the pleasant, dewy petrichor that defined the city during my stay. After about 10 minutes of meadow gazing and beholding palm trees, the nostalgia has finally started to sink in.
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+With every tree that passed by, I am reminded of each day I spent in Bangalore.
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+For a kid with little experience travelling alone, everything feels like an offering to a novel escapade. You feel like a toddler, gazing out of the windows at anything and everything outside your crib. Sometimes, I’d look at people being courteous to each other and wonder if it was all but a youtube prank or I had a messed up childhood.
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+The company gave all the interns a week’s accommodation. So that time was mostly spent around intermingling with other co-interns, sharing anecdotes of campus shenanigans.
+
+Our induction was spread throughout the first week of the internship. It included sessions about several verticals, or PODs as they were called, and how each operates. Soon after, we were allotted our setup and the managers we’d be working under. I was a part of the Orbits team, which looked after the creation and maintenance of internal tools that helped facilitate specific tasks for the company. Soon after, my manager gave me my first few tasks to get me up to speed with what was happening. After which, I spent most of my time floundering around the finicky problem statements my manager had inundated, only to realize they were crucial for my holistic development as a Software Engineer. But he came through for me every time I felt incompetent and guided me like a true senpai.
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+_Imagine one fine day, the electricity goes down for a split second, and you see nobody hooting; years of cultivating a practice in schools are now scraped away the moment you enter adulthood. Wouldn’t that shake the very foundation of your cubhood?_
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+I’d sometimes get confused about the terminologies used there. Why would you exclaim with joy confessing that you had BT? Because it meant Bank Transfer, Kritik! Likewise, the context of KT in the IT world and that in college stand in utter conflict altogether.
+
+But then, looking at familiar faces from Roorkee gave me a sense of solace. The friendly banter on Friday evenings would sometimes remind me of the Senate steps meetings (yes, I belong to the era when those were relevant).
+
+The city's nightlife also had its own bedazzle. Having the streets festooned with pubs and cafes, you’d find all the places overcrowded and exorbitant, especially on the weekends.
+
+Finding a place to sit involved days of planning, but booking and reaching there meant two different things because time and distance don’t follow the usual laws of physics in Bangalore. After the first week, I shifted to my brother’s apartment, which was 15kms away from the office but felt nothing short of 150kms by car.
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+I spent my first-week street hopping, walking alone, and shooting clips. For the first time, I felt unfettered by familiarity. The wind would feel like a lover's hug. I’d visit places, observe people, and have conversations almost unique to the place I’d be then. The vehicles on the road were always in a race against time but then I’d also see people waiting near the stand for hours, birdwatching. The nights would witness people beering out their stress, and mornings would be spent under the shade in the parks that were so immaculate you'd want to cry. It almost seemed ironic.
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+When you observe these things every day on your way to the office, it makes you also want to romanticize the work that you’re doing, even for a guy like me who coded just enough to get an internship and escape every conversation that revolved around it afterwards. But all of it is just a rash motorcyclist away from ruining your entire mood and changing your perspective altogether.
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+I started writing this memoir on my way to the Bangalore Airport; as I am about to finish this, I am catching a train to Roorkee. It’s almost funny. When I first set afoot in that city, I immediately started mapping everything to Delhi, but now it’s the other way around. I am carrying with me a bag of chips that has travelled three cities with me, becoming heavier with every descent.
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+It is now stuffed with conversations and inside jokes I’ve had with the people there throughout this internship, all of which started and concluded over a table that served scrumptious paranthas. For now, the packet has memories of all the places that I had gone to or did not.
+
+Now that college has commenced, I feel like an impetuous undergrad again. Maybe deep down, there's a responsible lad who knows better about survival in the world outside, where actions have consequences. The world where he's on his own, but also not alone.
+
+_fin._
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+title: "Summer Diaries: University of Calgary (Mitacs)"
+category: summer2022
+tags: [wona, column]
+author: "Prathamesh Bhaktan"
+image: prathamesh-b-intern-cover.png
+excerpt: "I knew that there were very few prospects of getting an on-campus internship in core engineering. Knowing this, I was fully focused on getting a research internship in the field of Mechanical Engineering."
+---
+
+From the start of college, I was interested in working in the core Mechanical Field. I already knew that there were very few prospects of getting an on-campus internship in core engineering. Knowing this, I was fully focused on getting a research internship in the field of Mechanical Engineering. After numerous efforts, I got an internship through Mitacs at the University of Calgary in the field of 3d-printing/Printed Electronics.
+
+It all started in 2nd- year when I opted for a project with one of the Profs of the department related to robotics and 3d-printing. I got more interested in the field of 3d-printing as I was working on the project and had eventually decided to work in a similar field for my Internship. As none of the on-campus companies had work related to that field, I was focused on getting a research internship. During summer vacation, after completing 2nd-year, I made a list of Profs from across different labs across the world who worked in the similar field. I started sending them personalized emails after going through their research work and some of the abstracts of their research papers. I sent emails to Profs from various European labs. It is generally easy to persuade Profs from Germany, for research internships, because of their DAAD program, wherein the DAAD organization funds our internship, and Profs don’t have to give funds. As DAAD requires a very high CGPA, which I didn’t have, I was focused on other programs (like Mitacs) and Labs from other countries as well.
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+I got a reply for approximately every 7-8 emails that I sent. Most of them were negative due to Covid restrictions at that time. There were a few positive replies as well but, they wanted the internship to be held for a longer duration which was not feasible given the restrictions set by our college for a summer internship.
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+Soon the application for Mitacs started, and I applied for it with the hope of getting an internship through Mitacs. It was a pretty lengthy application which took me a considerable amount of time to complete. Mitacs requires us to select seven projects from a list of two thousand projects. I patiently went through them to filter out projects which seemed interesting to me and for which I had required prerequisites. I was careful to make sure that I didn’t make any mistakes in the application and I cross-verified my application from a few of my friends and seniors. A few weeks after submitting my application, I got an email for an interview for one of the projects from Mitacs, and it went pretty well. Finally, all my hard work paid off when I got a mail for selection from Mitacs in December.
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+The mode of internship was most probably going to be offline, but it was finally made clear when we received an offer letter in February. As soon as I received my offer letter, I started my visa and other formalities for immigration. Due to restrictions by the academic section, we had to start our internship as soon as our ETEs ended. I had to pack everything in a very short duration, and four days after ETE I boarded my flight to Canada.
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+My project was related to 3d-printing of electronic circuits and polycarbonates. My first few weeks were pretty much training, and I was trained on how to use various equipment of labs as well as safety training. Then for most of the internship, I had to work on my own with other interns of the labs. I had a meeting with our supervisor twice a week and had to daily update him with my progress. The work environment in the lab was way different than in our Indian labs. Safety was considered as utmost important and we were not allowed to carry out any experiments without sending a safety log to our supervisor. Further, once we were trained on an equipment, we had to use it ourselves without anyone’s guidance or help. The weekdays were pretty much intense but we were free to roam around on weekends. I had a group of interns with whom I used to go hiking in the mountains, concerts and explore the city on weekends (The city of Calgary was mostly boring except for Mountains nearby or during the Stampede Festival). This pretty much went on for 12 weeks of internship. I got hands-on experience on using new equipment, methods and was pretty much happy with my research work. After the end of the internship, I got an opportunity to visit Niagara Falls and meet other interns from Toronto and a few of my school friends (It was basically on the other end of Canada but I had already pre-planned my visit there). By the time I was coming back I was filled with the memories of this amazing experience as well as I got to learn a lot of new things. Thank you and have a great day!
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