Hindsight

Today, the 8th of May, 2020 marks five years of the inception of my first big trip outside my country India - an internship tour to Tübingen, Germany. I was inexperienced but full of the youthful stir and adeptness to meet and greet the unknown. And so I set foot into uncharted territory. What I gained by the end of the internship wasn’t a windfall, but was withal invaluable. For as Da Vinci said, if once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your head turned skyward. What I tasted was the power of technology. I learnt how labs truly work, how research teams function, and how strong computers and visionary people can change the world. I believe that anyone who gets such an opportunity should live up to it - should be resolved to sacrifice many comforts in order to “overachieve”, as Kobe Bryant used to say. My internship work is summarised here . I’ll also write a separate post to share my experience of that internship, and link it here.