![]() With time, this residence becomes all about its residents. You get a suite, shared with two fellow interns, with a big drawing room, a kitchen, and a big bedroom, with a very big bed. I shifted to Rowell Jackman Hall, the abode for all the Mitacs interns at Toronto. From the airport, as she took me through the TTC (Toronto transit commission) underground metro and connected buses (Extensive network of public transportation) to my temporary hostel (I had arrived two days earlier, and was among the first ones from Mitacs to be at Toronto), she described the routes, and how she never recovered her taste buds after her visit to India I was still stuck wondering if the day was to be so long. ![]() She was a former student of UofT, and was to be my first contact for all kinds of assistance and support over the next twelve weeks. ![]() At airport, my mentor,the one who was the link between Mitacs and me, received me. This was the first of many surprises that were to unfold. Eric Diller on designing and controlling bio-inspired micro robots.Īt Pearson International Airport, having finished all the customs and immigration formalities, I was there out in the city only to realize that it was 9pm and the sun was still making way for the dark. I was selected for my internship at Microrobotics Laboratory, University of Toronto (UofT) to work with Prof. That’s when, it was official, and that’s when you are dropped from the roller coaster after months of potential build up. Again, after a month’s wait, I woke up to the subject in my mailbox: “Mitacs Globalink Research Internships – Official Project Offer to Students / Programme de stages recherche Globalink – Offre de projet officielle aux étudiants”. I was asked to brief them about my previous projects and in turn, they gave me an idea on the project that I could be potentially working on. About a few weeks later, two of the professors set up interviews over Skype. Then, about a month later, they mailed back that my application was being forwarded to the professors whom I had chosen to work with. It was after the mid semester exams, around the third week of September, 2014, when I realized that I needed to hush up my application for the Mitacs program, sealing it up just a few hours before the deadline (Well, it got extended, too). Leviathan, one of the fastest roller coasters at Canada’s WonderlandĪpplying for the Mitacs internship was no different. Well,do you know why is a roller coaster so exciting? It is not the fast drops, curves or turns but rather the few initial moments invested in building the potential – when it slowly but steadily takes you to the top. ![]() I was pulling it through the underground subway to take my flight back from Toronto to Delhi when a middle aged lady, passing by near the subway, uttered, “It seems I got a chance to have a good exercise today, I shall carry this bag for you down the stairs”, and then she took the heaviest one downstairs and dropped it off after I had collected my last subway token. With two suitcase trolleys, one travel bag and a backpack, 40 Kg of luggage was being juggled on and off my shoulders. ![]()
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