Breaking the writing inertia
It’s been a while since I have been wishing to jot down my random thoughts, but this inert laziness tries so hard to claw me down. Hello there :) ! I’m a 20 year old final year engineering student who’s counting on the ‘one last times’ of almost every college event. The seventh semester is different in varied ways. You’re the senior in college (well, Bachelor’s level). You don’t have a lot of work to do (or maybe it’s just me who’s chilling too much? :O). You’ve been running around with placements for the first few weeks wherein you push yourself harder because you’re tired of the waiting inside the Training and Placement Cell. You get a single room in hostel and you almost instantly start missing your ex-roomie.
In that state, I happened to receive a mail from Rethink Foundation team conveying the news about their new 4 weeks long learning programme for women in tech. I applied and as part of the selection process, attended a 10 min long video call over appear.in with Arya Murali, the programme anchor of this amazing initiative. I have been in touch with Arya and Rethink for a while but it was great actually getting to talk to her. A few days later, got to know about the Sheroes summit happening in Trivandrum next week and also got an invitation to attend the same. Thanks again to Rethink.
It suddenly dawned on me how profusely ignorant have I been all these years. I kinda decided I had to open my eyes wider in my final year of college. I understand that it’s not just me but most of the young girls are unaware of the brilliant opportunities that are right in front of their eyes. I believe getting ourselves to apply in itself is a good start. There’s a lot of learning involved and I was glad when I wrote my first wit application a few months back. You should also give it a try :).
I also got selected into the cohort 1 of the Rethink wit learning programme and I’m really looking forward to explore what’s in store :). Those of you (female engineering students) interested in participating, kindly check out https://wit.rethinkfoundation.in/ . They are inviting applicants for cohort 2.
On that note, have a great week ahead !
