Socializing in Columbus

Hello fellow readers,

So this is it, my third posting on this blog. So far I have told you about the work, the city (town?, community?) where I live and so other interesting topics… but what's about with the social life when you are an intern?.

Let me say that probably mine is not the most interesting experience in this field, but I'll give it a try. As you may recall I'm doing my internship in a city called Columbus, Indiana. Is a small city (village?) with little to do. Thanks to that, managing your social life become extremely important, you need to organize things with the other interns, do some networking to meet people you can hang out with, etc. Something that has been really useful is that Arjun (another intern from Ross) took the role of a Social Coordinator and frequently organizes card nights, happy hours, trips to watch World Cup games at our local BW3 and things like that. Leveraging this "Social Coordinator" role has proven very successful as slowly (but steady) we have been increasing the number of people participating in all this activities thus relying less on what the city have to offer to the individual.

So probably you are wondering how a typical day looks like? Well I arrive to the office at 8am, check my e-mail, go to a couple of meetings, have lunch, do some slides and around 4 or 5 I'll receive a mail from our Social Coordinator, or someone else, proposing to do something in the evening. So around 5:30 or 6:00pm I would leave the office and go to play badminton, bowling, watch a movie or do something else. In the weekend we have organized events like paintball, trip to Indy 500, going to a food festival at Bloomington an things like that. Thanks to all this organization effort and willingness to proactively look for other people and activity ideas have made my summer internship an interesting experience filled with a lot of activities that I usually wouldn't do while living in a bigger city.

So let's see what happen in the following weeks, we are planning on going to a County Fair (which would be a first time for me), play more badminton, and I'll probably will take my car to the track for a good day of racing (which I haven't done in several years). I'll let you know how this is going.