As I sit in the United lounge at the San Francisco airport, I look down at magnificent airliners milling about in the ever present mist and I reminisce about the summer that was. I spent the summer in the bay area interning at the best GPU experience manufacturer till date, NVIDIA. I spent the summer in one of the best cities, San Francisco. But most importantly, I had a lot of fun while I worked hard.
The biggest highlights for me this summer is the great people I met over my time here, at work or otherwise. Working at NVIDIA I was in touch with the best minds in the business. I was especially humbled by the vision and wisdom of the CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, who I had the opportunity of meeting and hearing more than once this summer; once at his beautiful house for a dinner party. Moreover, I was delighted at the opportunity to meet and pick the brains of Dan Vivoli, VP Marketing and Bill Dally, VP R&D.
Apart from meeting all these wonderful people, I am happy to have finally experienced the bay area. It won’t be long before ‘The Intern Experience’ is an oversubscribed bay area tourism package. And the reason is that there is not much that can be missed in the bay area. City life? Check. Nature walks? Got it. Stunning entrepreneurial culture? Yup. Top notch technology? Of course. That is something very unique to this place and probably a reason for the kind of success seen here. attracts all sorts of people who do all sorts of things. And when these people work together, good things come out of it. In this short summer I spent here, I was able to shoot a pistol at a range for the first time in my life (quite an experience), go trekking on the most beautiful stretch of land rife with every imaginable color as the hills look upon the ocean, test drive some of the best four-seat convertibles in the market today, go see the best comedian of today (Aziz Ansari) and go meet a musical legend (Sean Kingston).
Although I wish I could have written about everything I did, I am left with many experiences difficult to bequeath unto words, and with the boarding call for my flight being announced on the PA I bid a bittersweet adieu to this summer. But now I have a new goal: to make the next time even better and even more memorable.
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