A New Chapter

I ended my internship last Friday and I was so so so happy it ended! The main perks were no more waking up at 7.30am every week day morning and I can spend my day anyhow I want. So... One more week of summer holidays to spend before school start. Such a short holiday. Hope I can spend a day or two at home lazing around cus I LOVE LAZING AROUND AT HOME.

At first I was really excited about my internship cus I thought a bank internship is hard to get. It was so elusive, at least to me. I applied to so many banks but only 5-6 replied me. However, a few weeks into the internship, I felt that there was nothing special. The people were cold and they do not ask interns out for lunch. Even my supervisor and I have a strictly work relationship. There were twelve people in the department, but none of them talked much to me except for two. I really like the people in my previous internship more! Thank goodness the other interns saved the day. There were 7 other interns on the same level as me and we went out to lunch together. Some of them were pretty outgoing so they kept our lunch conversations funny and juicy. We went drinking on a few Fridays as well.

At the same time, I've seen the true colors of people there. There's this selfish person which I can't stand, but I shall let it pass. This is because the other people are nice and helpful, so I want to continue keeping in touch with them.

This internship has also made me realized I do not want to do risk management. Like what K said, risk management is 80% data management and 20% modeling. They use SAS software for data management purposes and I SUCK at it! In the end my supervisor realized that and assigned me a lot of research work which I enjoyed better than writing SAS programs. Currently I want to be an equity analyst in the future, so the research experience would help a little.

Overall, this internship has lots of hits and misses. But nvm it will still be an experience under my belt!

With that, a new chapter begins. Am I ready to be a Honours student? I can't believe three years passed so fast. Half of my classmates have already graduated and I'm due to graduate next year. I really need to spend my time wisely and spend them well!