Pratyush's Blog

I have received a lot of messages and texts from people to share my internship experiences with them. Moreover, inspired from one of my mentors — Nikhil Bhaiya ( Nikhil Jain  — the co-founder of  foreignadmits.com ) who always suggests — sharing personal knowledge and experience might help someone else from unexpected corners of the world, this is a small attempt from my side to share my experience with people. Let us try it in a different mode this time. I am trying to summarize my entire journey is a question-answer form so as to help you understand the different dynamics involved. 1)  How did I secure the intern? (Pre-internship) I was an intern at the Chennai plant of Pfizer Inc. in December ’16 during the winter break post the completion of my first semester. My work there was interrupted by the sudden demise of the then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and the advent of a huge cyclone. Even then, I showed persistence and the willingness to give my 101% every t...

If you’ve been following the series, I hope you’ve found the previous 2 parts well-paced, delivering its central message within a structured framework (if you’re smart, you’ll make out that I really love consulting. :D): situation, complication, solution, takeaways. While I’ve experimented with the form the previous 2 parts took, I don’t wish to stray too far away from the basic structure here. If you haven’t read the previous parts, I’ll put up the links for you — IIT — The dream and beyond. Part — 1 Back in 2016, June 12th, I was glued to my computer screen anticipating my JEE Advanced results. I wasn’t particularly… medium.com IIT — The dream and beyond. Part — 2 This is the second part of the series where I attempt to document my learnings and experiences from the close to three… medium.com I recommend checking out the Part — 2 because it is merely a continuation of it. Chapter 5: Be an enabler Time never passes ...

This is the second part of the series where I attempt to document my learnings and experiences from the close to three years I’ve spent in IIT (BHU). If you haven’t read it, you might want to check it out. IIT — The dream and beyond. Part — 1 Back in 2016, June 12th, I was glued to my computer screen anticipating my JEE Advanced results. I wasn’t particularly… medium.com Life at IIT (BHU) has been similar to drinking water from a firehose. I had more opportunities and faced more challenges than anything I could fathom. College life is a gift. Learning what to chase and what to ignore, however, is an art. I’m incredibly grateful to have had the privilege to join the long lineage of eminent personalities that my college has produced over the decades. In the hopes of making the journey easier for those of you that will be enrolling/are enrolled in an engineering college shortly, these are my key takeaways. If the first part was about  episodes ...