BUILD A DOOR OR DON’T WAIT FOR A KNOCK – FOR ALL THE INTERNS

From roaming around the corridors hooting, shouting and planning for nothing else but picnics and parties, also with a plathora number of bunks to a full fledge professional life, I have learnt one thing: Every effort is interconnected, all you have to do is move forward with some planning.

I was, in my university, one of the most non-serious person as far as it was about attending the classes. In the first year I went on touring Pakistan twice, organised a number of picnics and parties. Which made me realise, “A person who can arrange a successful picnic can also arrange a professional event”. All the events are the same. There has to be some financial management, some marketing, some lectures and also a very lazy team to manage. That was the first very useful lesson my university taught me. Actually sometimes we underestimate our abilities because of the taunts of the people who can’t do that.

In third year, during the internship season, we heard that internship is the most useless thing in the world. It never helps you in your professional life. But luckily we went to a very good organization under the management of some very professional and experienced people. And believe me those lessons still help me in the professional life. Surprised to see a hooting and shouting lover taking internship seriously? So that was the second useful lesson I learnt. “There is a time for fun mostly, but in a very rare few moments, life wants you to be serious”.

And this is the problem with the most of the students, a non-serious fun loving person always stays the same way no matter what and where he is. And a nerd always stay nerd. There are many things which non-seriousness teaches you. A) Handling work load, B) Management, C) Submitting the work before the complete satisfaction of self-esteem etc. Also there are many things which nerdiness teaches you. A) Completeness in work, B) Following the routine, C) Being organized. All of this is necessary at random intervals of life.

In the final year, we heard that choose a teacher who can give you maximum marks in the FYP. It never helps you in your professional life. GPA is more important. And believe me just after my FYP, I had 03 job offers just because of my FYP. Because why will a person hire a fresh engineer he didn't know, rather than a person he is teaching since the last year. So I learnt, “plan everything, at least two years prior to the professional life”.

So my advice is:

·  From third year, this is the time to think, what is the most suitable discipline for you? (Transportation, structure, construction, water, soil etc.)

·  Decide and do the internship there, and for only a month or two, be serious.

·  When you finish your internship, make sure that every senior in that firm is your friend.

·  From 3.2 GPA to 3.8 GPA there is no difference, if you have learnt more than 04 GPA groups.

·  Irrespective of how many bunks are in your belt, your concepts should be very clear.

·  Office is not a venue for bunks, that time is now over.