‌Opting‌ ‌for‌ ‌a‌ ‌geology‌ ‌branch‌ ‌and‌ ‌working‌ ‌as‌ ‌a‌ ‌geologist‌ ‌intern.
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I never planned to be a geoscientist, but it has ended up being one of the better decisions of my life. I worked towards my IIT JEE exam in 2008 from Kota. Getting a rank of about 4000, I had lost hope. However, I researched my options and found out about Geological Technology and Geophysical Technology branches in IIT Roorkee and IIT Kharagpur. I realized that historically, these branches had produced stellar results in placements and besides that, there was a lot of scopes to pursue research in case I developed a purely academic inclination (evidently it was too early for me to decide, fresh out of class 12th). I decided to take the plunge with Geology from IIT Roorkee for a 5-year course because of its diverse scope.

In college, I started liking many subjects related to geosciences and my curiosity led me to be good at some of them. My newly grown interests led me to pursue an internship in my 3rd year abroad in Structural Geology. The internship gave me great exposure and confidence. Alongside, academics I was involved with the Tech Fest of IIT Roorkee, Cognizance. Besides being a lot of fun, the experience was very enriching. To conceptualize and organize events of such scale. I was the convenor of the event for my department which led me to get in touch with a lot of alumni in the industry.