Summer chronicles

Hi folks.. I'm back!

Apologies for my prolonged period of absence from the blogosphere. For the record - it was indeed my intention to have at least a couple of posts on my summer experience before now. :)

But here we are, and to pick up from my last post - I decided to take the internship in Washington DC, implying that I would start working 3 days after finals week.

After 2 days of farewell parties for the graduating MBA Class of '08, I landed in DC on a Sunday afternoon in what we shall charitably call "an exhausted state". And so began what has been, in hindsight, a fabulous summer.

As I'd mentioned earlier, I'm interning at a consulting firm that specializes in international business. Two swaying factors in my decision to take this internship - first, the work I would be doing seemed really great.

One project involved creating an internationalization strategy for an Italian IT firm; and the second involved working with a European Clinical Engineering firm that is trying to enter the Indian market through an acquisition.

The second factor was that I would be located in Milan, Italy for half the internship. Now, in addition to the fact that I'd never been to Milan before, this was enticing for better (?!) reasons too - I would working from the client location for a while and this meant more exposure and responsibilities and by implication, more challenges.

I would be getting excellent exposure to strategy consulting and would be able to work at a much higher level than regular summer internship jobs. And I would be in DC/Milan.
In the end, it was not too difficult a decision to make.
:)