Started internship in boutique Investment Bank (MBS/ABS). How to make the most of it?

Hi,

Long time lurker. I want to thank WSO for helping me get my foot in the door with this internship.

Background: top 30 school but non-target (top 10 in the nation for pre-med, engineering, CS, just not for business). Got an internship in a medium sized city (boston/seattle/baltimore).

Unpaid internship for the next 2 quarters. I have a financial analyst internship for this coming summer (think GE/CapitalOne/Boeing/Amazon/GM).

What the shop is (to give a little info) is a buyside investment bank. They act as agents; don't take anything on principal or for portfolio. They connect buyers and sellers. Because I am under an NDA, I can't say the clients, but they are all the major banks on the street as well as all the major PE firms that have a DCM or SpecOps (special opportunities division).

Now, my dilemma is that although I always wanted to go into investment banking (don't we all?), I always thought I would end up with an industry group, versus a products group. I have nothing against working here; the work is actually interesting.

Now onto my question; how can I leverage this internship to benefit me in the long run? I'd love to work in ABS/MBS, just not in my city but in NYC definitely. I already have an internship lined up for this summer, but what else can I do to help me in my search for next year? Any books I should be reading on the subject?

 

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