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About MBA internships…
Comments (2)MBA internships are really funny things … something I’m experiencing firsthand currently…. (yes yes.. i’m an MBA intern….yeeech! )
Every MBA starts the internship with a “I’m gonna change the world with my revolutionary ideas”..the world in question being the company that has agreed to house him for the little time that passes of as “on-hand training” period aka.. internship….
the first few days go in getting him a place to sit … (or not in many cases.. ) and if he’s lucky maybe even the title of the project … which ensures that he’s kept “busy” for the next few days… in just deciphering the meaning of..!
i think that project titles are generated by some random phrase generating machine… u know the kinds where u feed in a huge database of important sounding words… and it keeps spewing out wild combinations of 10 or more such words…. i mean, u reallly expect me to believe that a sane human being actually comes up with those alien titles.. all by himself!!!!
so now that the project title has been alloted and (presumably) a seat has been arranged … (though i know of quite a few interns who’s high point of the day is to run to office early so that they can grab a seat… well.. any seat..!!)
one would think our lad (he still has his revolutionary ideas will turn the company around attitude u see) would start with the project right away… correct..? Wrong!! for now its time for another chase… the chase of the often-elusive, often-not-on-campus, and mostly-busy.. the project guide!!
they are obviously too busy with their own projects to look into what some half-baked MBA is talking about… and seriously.. one cannot blame them for it too.. but shudn’t there be some system by which the intern feels like his work is being read.. at the very least!!
ad so it goes on… our boy reads a lot, understands some, puts together a document… neatly describing the project, what he feels can be done with it, how he intends to go about it… and sends it across to his “guide”
one week down the line… no reply still from the guide… wat happens next??? thats for me to see… coz my boat is stuck at this port rite now…
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