Ayushi Sati

Student

I belong to a small hill station named Nainital in Uttarakhand I India. My education at a convent school played a significant impact in establishing my moral ideals; my school formed a significant chunk of who I am now. Following that, I relocated to Delhi to get my bachelor's degree in physical sciences. During my three years of graduation, I explored a variety of options, such as being a member of my college's volunteering and event management team, working with an NGO called Shri Ashwin Maharaj Foundation, being a part of Enactus, helping people improve their communication skills via the app Engvarta, doing some projects in the field of science and exploring astrophysics as a career option, and speaking with professionals in the crime branch and forensic labs. This was all done to find the right career fit for me, and it was during these years that I discovered that I enjoy doing people-related jobs, which led me to decide that a master's degree in business administration with a specialization in human resource management is something that I am most particularly interested in and find intriguing, appealing, and desirable. Besides this, I enjoy going on walks, watching TV shows, and listening to music. I am also an avid reader, Kite runner by Khaled Hosseini is my all-time favorite, and an admirer and practitioner of Indian classical dance, inspired by Shri Birju Maharaj.

Having been raised in a hill station, I’ve always had an admiration for nature which strengthened further when our school offered us the choice to join the Universal Solidarity Movement (USM) organization during high school. Green India, Clean India, Literate India, Women Empowerment, and Art & Culture were the five major components within the organisation that students were classified into. I was associated with the Green India group for the first year, where we went on multiple plantation drives and produced paper bags that were disseminated throughout the town shops while persuading people to avoid the use of polythene bags. I later had the opportunity to expand my horizon within the organization when I joined another vertical ‘Literate India’ the following year whose primary goal remains providing valuable education and basic literacy skills in subjects like mathematics, language, and science to many relatively unfortunate children in and around the city. Over the next couple of years, I was also actively engaged with Leadership Training Service (LTS) - an organization that enables discussions and interactions that would be aimed at benefiting the country as well as self. The organization conducted weekly meetings where various methods and concepts related to the values one needs to live by, would be under scrutiny and practice. Some of the topics included Care and Share Each One Teach One, and One Good Act a Day. Being a member of both these organizations instilled in me a great desire to give back to the community, whether it was by saving the environment or assisting others; in the reverberation of which, I sought to maintain proximity with some context of public work along with my regular life. Subsequently commenced my journey as a volunteer for a non-profit organisation named Shri Ashwin Maharaj Foundation where we catered to cancer patients and provided them with proper nourishment that would help them improve their health. Later, I also became a member of Enactus - a social entrepreneurship organisation - where I worked on multiple projects, most significant of them all being Project Rachna and Project Aagah. Project Rachna focuses on creating utility craft products with the help of consumer textile waste. To bring this into execution we adopted a slum, educated the women there on how to produce these articles, and further helped them to find a market for selling these products. Project Aagah, on the other hand, strived to affect the young of underprivileged areas by instilling civic awareness in them while stimulating and assisting them towards entrepreneurial thought and action, all with the basic premise of Project Aagah in mind – precautionary awareness for all. I picked social work, however, by and large, I think social work picked me as well, and hence the one thing I'm sure of, beyond a shadow of doubt, is my extravagant indulgence in community work on account of my escalating enthusiasm. My early love of nature has bloomed to being my passion over time, propelled by the realization that we as individuals have a responsibility towards our community and the realm. With this rationale, indulging in community service is not like walking the additional mile for me, yet rather like clearing the path that empowers me to walk.

1.The journey of writing a Book: epiphany to materialisation Most of us at some point in our lives have wished to pen down our random thoughts or was it just me? This sounds nothing less than an introductory story about a budding writer who is going to make it big in the world of writing. Studies suggest that the human brain can process up to 6,200 thoughts a day and a book is nothing but a frozen collection of ideas churned into structured thoughts. Impressive, isn’t it? What if we started writing some of them, giving our thoughts a real-life image with interesting characters and an engaging plot. Novel writers combine these two elements to produce enthralling tales beautifully. Every novel is the journey of life that the characters experience within the pages. So many elements are intertwined in the story formation. If you are thinking of going from point A to B, as the story proceeds, then you have to show the reason behind the journey as well as demonstrate how that journey has affected the character’s in that story, along the way. Through this talk, we want to encourage the art of writing, and educate our audience about the beauty of merging their individual thoughts with the adventure of crafting stories. We wish to convey the idea that with clarity of purpose, epiphanies can be materialized into a well-structured flow of prose and poetry, through imagination and creativity. 2. To be the first: to make a lasting impact To be the first is an experience, to be the first is a privilege and to be the first is an honor. What close to a hundred first-time athletes from India at the Tokyo Olympics showed, was a reflection of what grit, determination, and perseverance can do. The conversation about the risk involved in the process of simply getting qualified to participate in the Olympics for the first time, and the experience of feeling successful especially when unanticipated, could be an inspiration to budding entrepreneurs, writers, artists of various disciplines, and many others who are working towards their first time to make a lasting impact. Through this talk, the attendees will be able to witness the journey of first-time international athletes. It would help understand the hardship to be undergone to be the 1st in history, the anxiety of being there on the world stage representing years of hard work and your country. There will be a focus on how the ones who become the 1st come up through the ranks. 3. Staring death at point-blank range Staring at death from a point-blank range devastates a human being. But some of us do that regularly and will continue to do so throughout our careers. The highlight of this argument is to focus on the point of view of doctors who have seen the value and importance of life, and situations becoming volatile while being at the forefront of the fight against the coronavirus. The talk would educate the audience about the difficulty of watching patients suffer and give them a deeper insight into the process of building resilience and mental strength while witnessing failures, their mental health implications, and surviving the burden of self and people's expectations simultaneously. We'd look closely at how the healthcare professionals do it all almost every day and still return to work with the same motivation and zeal to serve society. 4. Finding Solace amongst the chaos Agitation accumulated from daily life through work, chores, family, social life, and other relationships often instigate a strong desire within us to distance ourselves from everything around us and spend a few days away in the mountains or a beach. With a rapidly growing population, and effectively growing competition in every possible career choice one makes, the stress and anxiety young people face today cannot be underrated. But, is taking a trip once in a few months to a faraway land, enough compensation for the daily struggles one goes through? We think not. Being able to maintain a consistent and low level of stress, has been proven to help make smarter decisions and infuse positivity into your atmosphere. We believe that people can find peace in the very place they are in provided they know how-to and hence we seek to address this issue through a talk that would convey methods young people dealing with stress on a daily basis could employ and practice in order to help themselves achieve a stable state of mind amidst all their regular activities.

Communication, Content Writing, Human Resources, Marketing

Back in 2016, when I was a senior secondary student, we had a guest lecturer frequently visit our college to clarify some of our physics-related concepts. Sir Pant was regarded as an intellectual man with extensive knowledge in the field of physics and life in general. When talking about life he was often found citing “The journey isn’t so much about becoming than it is about unbecoming what you’re not”. Although it seemed rather dubious to me at the time and I could not fathom the depth behind the statement; it managed to stick with me. It was only years later - while having a casual conversation with a friend about how the choices we make on a daily basis, consequently shape our entire lives - did I start to truly comprehend what Sir Pant meant when he quoted that statement. Perhaps it was the events and experiences that I had gone through in the meantime, that helped me strike perfect sense to the idea behind the quote; to a point where I felt obliged to write to the professor thanking him for the newfound perspective, his statement equipped me with. A comparable event occurred during senior year of my college as well. I was in a taxi with a couple of friends on what I can recollect as a blue day, and we had come to halt at a traffic junction due to a red light. I was peering out the window, all bleak, when a senior citizen who had pulled up close to our vehicle spotted me, and grinned as he said, "Why do you appear so upset? Smile! You're too young to not smile!" The traffic light turned green, the cars began to accelerate, and we were off. It did not matter that the man was a stranger and what a simple thing he told me, and that the whole experience could not have lasted more than a handful of seconds; all that mattered was the message he conveyed to me - which compels me to date, to go on with my day and with my life by simply carrying a smile. Both these experiences, although really simple, have had a significant impact on me and the people around me in being able to walk with a smile while paving our way to become our desired selves. With the motto "Ideas worth spreading", TEDx provides a platform for such ideas - simple or complex - to flourish and instigate positive change in a community. Ideas that have the potential of making a significant influence on people's lives, and effectively on the planet. I needed no further encouragement to organize a TEDx event and make the most of the opportunity that the platform provides.

The first thing that I’d like to mention in this respect is that I come with a strong ethical mindset.Be it work ethic or social ethic I try and do what makes the most perfect sense in all situations. Being a fresher, I think I am very flexible and adaptive to learning new things. I am sure I will be able to contribute something capable to the growth of the company as I am intrinsically motivated for the tasks and projects assigned to me. I believe in making every moment count and am determined in achieving the goals I’ve set for myself. I believe I am skilled at communication skills. I was an excellent orator in college and enhanced it even more while I was working with Engvarta,an app that helps people communicate in English,I was a professional in the app for two years,and though my major task was to help people but I can surely say it made me even more confident and efficient in communicational skills. . Although I don’t have work experience and much work knowledge, I think by putting in significant effort, I shall surely learn. I am very hard-working and I am a quick learner, hence can easily mold myself into the desired shape.