Life in Bengaluru….Phase 1

Well the second post is coming after a really long time..couldnt help it…no net accessibility in these 2 months…to put it differently ..a price that I had to pay being a part of a wet lab!!!! The best way to describe the first phase of my fellowship is- a period of eternal bliss….an experience that has instilled in me a passion to pursue science in a totally different perspective..something that I had never imagined before.It has always been a dream to study in a place like the IISc…a place about which I had only read in the books and the newspaper and having got an opportunity to work here for 2 months is probably the best thing that has happened to me in these 3 yrs of college life.Initially it seemed a little weird to be working in a lab on an area which I have never been interested in…rather never taken a genuine interest coz it was never a part of the school or college curriculum…but I gradually understood and experienced the nuances of research and the kind of effect it can have on an individual.At the end of my first month ,the one thing that I realized rather understood was that research is not as glamorous as it seems!! That was the work part of it…as far as living in bengaluruuu is concerned…. it was a very enriching experience.I guess what made it really exciting was the fact that six of us from college…ranjani,anjali,vidya,sriram,siddharth and me of course….were together in the same place…working in different departments under different heads…Before we could even realize that we were a part of this beautiful institute…a month was over and with it ended the first phase in bangalore only to be followed by an even exciting and fun filled second phase!!!!!