Internships Son

Hey guys,

Been applying to internships lately and it's been such a huge pain I can't even begin to tell you. So much busy work like filling out my name, address, major, gpa, submitting a resume and a cover letter, applying through my school's careers website, finding more banks to apply to blah blah blah.

At any rate, I've applied to about 15 places and have contacted another 10 or so. Basically the firms will look over my resume/cover letter and decide whether or not to grant me an interview. Then they'll decide, based on my interview, if I should get to do a super day which is a long ass day full off interviews. I've been applying for a lot of ibanking and sales and trading places and am pretty confident that I'll land a lot of interviews. I don't mean to be arrogant, but it's tough to imagine what more a bank could want on a resume:

Varsity Athlete
3.9
phil major with multivariable calc, ODE's, linear algebra, abstract algebra (currently taking), intermediate micro, management of business and non-profit organizations

ivy league school
did original math research last summer

The only problem is that I really know very little about finance at the moment. I'm getting educated but I'm starting from scratch so it's pretty tough. I think it's pretty stupid how interviewers ask you market specific questions. I suppose it gauges how interested you are in the field, but I'd rather gauge aptitude. Who cares if you know what our firm's stock is trading at...I want to know if you're smart enough to do good work.

Oh well...It'll be interesting to see how it turns out. It's gonna be a really busy next few weeks as I'll have 3 biggest matches of the season and nationals, interviews start in early Feb, transfer counselor stuff starting this Saturday, and two a days until school starts on the 27th. I also really have no idea what I would do if I don't land one of these internships. I suppose I should look into policy think thanks and other things like that but I'm pretty fried from all these apps.

I also worked out a deal with a coach where I teach him 180s and he teaches me 6m nlhe so I have to make time for that too. He's won at like 4.8bb/100 at nl600...not incredible, but still good imo.

Roll's been growing from my one stakee, who after 2k games has made like $1.6k (probably 1k below EV.) He plays well and gets in a ton of volume and keeps his rail updated constantly so he's been great. And after doing a lot of HH reviews at the start, I really haven't had to help him that much. Getting money for doing nothing is pretty nice. So yeah, have like 5.3k atm, gonna have to drop some dough on valentine's day and for a vegas trip. Kinda want a new chair but I need money for 6m cash. Although I guess I can count on more coming in in the future...meh.

Gonna go learn more about how the credit crisis happened. fml

Later boys,
Yodaddy