New FIN Intern from UPES!
Hello everyone! I am Yadrishi Dixit. I was born and brought up in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, which has a rich cultural heritage. It is also the birthplace of the renowned classical musician Tansen. I completed my schooling at the Little Angels High School, Gwalior, one of the leading schools in the state. I have always been good at academics and have won various laurels at the school level.
I am pursuing B.Tech. in Computer Science from the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun. After deep research, I have decided to opt for DevOps as my specialisation. I intend to make the best use of my time at college and learn all I can, and I am very excited for the college to reopen.
As a part of my social internship in college, I’m assigned to work with FIN. I am very thankful to get such a good organisation with a hardworking founder and mentors. They have always been helpful to me and so far my journey here has been full of new learnings and knowing how to cooperate in a team. The best part of this internship is the Digital Empathy sessions- seeing the smiles on my students’ faces when they learn something new! It’s my pleasure that I’ve been able to contribute a little bit to society.
I love my family the most. Being a single child and the youngest in the family, I have been pampered a lot. My parents and my cousin are my inspiration. My pets have always been an integral part of the family since childhood. My current pet dog is named Doby after the Harry Potter character because he was very skinny and cute when I got him. We are a close-knit family and although we don’t always stay together, the love remains the same.
I am a friendly person, but I like to keep my social circle small. I am lucky to have such true and amazing friends with whom I can have fun. My friends are the reason why I play games such as badminton and table tennis casually. I also like going on morning walks with them. I also walk every night post-dinner with my earphones plugged in as I like listening to music – no specific genre but as per the mood. I also listen to audiobooks, guided meditation audios and relaxing ASMR sounds of nature because they make me feel relaxed and help me sleep peacefully. I also have playlists made for these. My current favourite song is “I’ll stay” from the movie Instant Family.
Writing has always been my interest since school. I met one of the most inspiring people in my life – my seventh-grade English teacher and I started writing poems as well. I love writing poems about nature and describing beautiful scenery. I love reading books and my library card in school never had a free slot! Earlier I used to enjoy books such as Harry Potter, Twilight, and children’s novels such as The Witches and The Making of May. Now I have started reading self-help books as well. Atomic Habits by James Clear is my all-time favourite. Apart from reading books, I also love reading poems. One of my favourite poems is “Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening” by Robert Frost. The wintery scenery and the subtle calmness this poem provides me are unmatchable. I also like watching web series and some movies such as the Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Office, Game of Thrones and The Big Bang Theory. Also, in Harry Potter, I’m a half-blood Slytherin!
I love to click pictures of landscapes, therefore I like visiting various places which would allow me to see beautiful sceneries and capture them. Last month I went on a family trip to Dubai and Sikkim which allowed me to click pictures of amazing buildings and try various foods.
Cooking is another hobby of mine, which I do sometimes. I have baked cakes, made various sandwiches and tried different cuisines like Italian and Chinese. I’m not a very good cook but I wish to improve with time. And I also like trying various foods from different places, especially continental food.
I want to explore all aspects of life and build strong relations with the people I meet, and for this, I am trying to build my personality in that way. I want to go further in the tech industry and become a very good engineer. I have an interest in spirituality and like to read books such as the Gita. I’m working on my meditation to develop focus and reduce my habit of procrastination. I want to inculcate the habit of doing yoga and pranayama which I used to do in school in childhood regularly. I’m ambitious and have many goals as well as weaknesses in life and the purpose is to become a better person each day. In a nutshell, I am an open-hearted person and want to become the best version of myself that I can be and I’m working towards that.