With regards to the city, the food vendor at my office as well as my accommodation have been accommodative in providing me with chapatti in all my meals (Most North Indians are not big rice fans, you see). I did make some friends in people I am staying with, and with people from other IIMs who are staying in accommodations close to mine (we happened to meet over a meal, the IIM T-Shirt did its wonders in getting a conversation started). So, life beyond work has also been taken care of.
To close my story, I have one suggestion for anyone about to go for their internship (more or less the same thing that I opened this story with). Go for your internship with an open mind, embrace yourself for new work, new learnings, new opportunities, and it will be an experience of a lifetime; as it has been for me.
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Mayank Maria
Indian Institute of Management, Visakhapatnam
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