The Room of Requirements

Whenever someone asks me what I am doing in the middle of sonepat in peak summer, my response is ‘oh, I am doing an internship on campus at the makerspace’. This leads to the one question that me and my peers dread a lot, “What is the makerspace ?". There is no perfect answer for that, it can be anything you want it to be from a electronics lab to a dj studio. I personally think of the lab as The Room of Requirements from Hogwarts, it becomes what you need at that point in time. In fact that’s how I even ended up at the makerspace in the first place. One random conversation with a prof about doing something other than academics, one random email and I just showed up to 007 trying to open the door (amateur mistake lol!) and the rest just happend.

But never did I think I would end up as a summer intern, but I am really glad that I am spending my summer with the team. I have gotten my hands dirty in a lot of things like electronics, CAD, programming and many more. Looking at my peers at the lab, our interests are so different we are like the infinity stones. Its really a motivation when you go to the lab at 2 am (lowkey looks like darth vader’s ship) to get your charger and you see someone on CAD, turning blue lines to black. The lab as I mentioned earlier molds itself to anyone’s needs without any restrictions and its really surprising that a space like this exists at Ashoka, where restrictions and structures dominate every space.

Glad I knocked 007 at the right time, haven’t looked back since

Until my next 12 am yap session