Internship Over (thank god)

Hey all,

So my internship ended yesterday and I'm so glad it's over with. I ended up taking home ~$7k after taxes/expenses but had to work 80-90 hrs/week to get it. I'm glad I can put it on my resume but there's almost no way I'll go into banking full time. The work's not interesting, the hours are terrible, no social life, blah blah. Great for exit opportunities but I don't think I'd be interested in private equity anyway (even though the pay/hours are better). I hear this coming Friday if I got a full time offer, but I'm pretty sure I didn't.

I was at a pretty big disadvantage coming in because I knew nothing about finance/accounting so I had to play catch-up for the first three weeks. My mid-summer review wasn't great but I "made a dramatic turnaround"...doubt that's enough to net a FT offer but we'll see. I would only want it so that I could leverage it for trading anyway but it'd be easier than applying the normal way.

At any rate, I'm back home for the summer and it's great to be back, see my brother and parents. They completed renovating our house a few weeks after I left for NYC and the place is great. I just have to get a desk/chair and set up my monitor/PC and I'll be good to go. Speaking of which, I have to figure out what I'm doing in August. Here are my tentative goals:

-talk to career services about contacting trading firms before I go to London
-contact 15 alums/week to network
-read Nudge, Misbehavior of Markets, Against the Gods
-play 1.5k games (get chair/desk today)
-pushups every other day, run every other day

We'll see how it goes, I'll keep you guys posted.

Talk soon,
Yodaddy