Hyderabad Calling...

I'm posting after a pretty long hiatus and once again from the cozy confines of my bedroom in Hyderabad. My trip to India happened all too quickly and suddenly and what brings me back home this time around is strictly academic pursuits. Or is it? I will be interning with Dr Reddy's at their Biologics Development Center and the fact that it happens to be in Hyderabad is merely coincidental. Ever since I got off the conference call with the VP and the Director all I wanted to do was come back to my family, my home, my city, my friends and above all, India. I did not for a second think about all the lost opportunities, the chance to earn a few dollars, the so-called “US experience”. It was a fairly easy decision to make! Don’t you think?

Opportunities come when you least expect them and this was no different and sometimes you can’t help but go with the flow. After all it's just a matter of three months. Only time will tell what long-term ramifications will it have on your career or more importantly how you want your career to progress. How many of you really think a 10-12 week internship will dictate or shape your career?

I have been blessed in the sense that I always get what I want, when I want it. I got to intern in New York straight out of college and now I get a chance to go back and intern in Hyderabad after a grueling first year in grad school. It is ironic in a way, but I am not complaining, in fact I couldn’t be happier. I have a long list of to do things and hopefully I will knock some of them off my list before I head back! Before I sign off, here’s something I read today that I thought I should post.

“He slept beneath the moon,
He basked beneath the sun.
He lived a life of going-to-do
And died with nothing done”

The above message was written on someone’s epitaph and I don’t want it to be on mine and here goes my motto for my three months stay at home, the famous IBM punch line “Stop talking, start doing!”