Manager made me do some difficult task, but I just couldn't handle it. This resulted in him basically scolding me and shaking his head at me and just overall being disappointed.

I wonder if other interns go through similar experiences...

After constant struggles to find an apartment without a broker, I gave up and decided to get one. Worked with two terrible brokers, who made my life miserable, showing me apartments that did not fit what I was looking for. Finally, the third one was an honest and helpful woman who I would recommend to anyone. I would not like to advertise here, but if you are interested in knowing with whom I worked with (both the bad and the good ones), feel free to pm me.

Please review my resume. I'd appreciate it if you guys gave it a scale 1-10 and how it could improve. Thanks

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So I'm pretty sure that I'm one of those people that looks pissed off all the time. I notice when I'm sitting in the bus, or anywhere really, sometimes people will look at me like they're gonna say something, open their mouth, then right when I make eye contact with them, they close their mouth and look away immediately... kinda funny sometimes, but I don't like looking like I want to kick everybody's ass all the time (and looking like I WANT to kick their ass is all I can do since I'm a pretty short guy). I have more examples, but this happened again to me today...

Anybody else have this problem and have any advice on how to look less pissed? Anybody not know what I'm talking about?

It's just my stupid face. My normal face is everybody else's mean face :(

So you guys always say to join clubs that you would actually enjoy, but just how much can you enjoy them? Should they be somewhat professional? Or will getting a leadership position and actually organizing events do?... There's a Scotch club here... how would that be perceived on my resume (from trading/consulting/tech firms) if I were to actually get involved/get a leadership position?There's also a cigar club that I was thinking about joining... though both of them sound like they'd be pretty expensive when it came time to test some stuff out.

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Just goes to show you that no matter how old you are, it can still bite you in the ass. DON'T DO IT.

I just started working yesterday at my internship at a really small boutique that offers research and banking ( if any banking deals actually come to them). So I primarily do equity research, and also get a chance to do an IPO this summer. Because this firm is so small, chinese wall rules do not apply.

A lot of strange things are happening though.

Office politics and technical problems on day one. OK maybe it was just a bad day.

I work mostly with the research analyst except he always shows up late, and the rest of the firm complains. Maybe he just likes to work at home though.

He was blocked over the phone so he couldn't ask questions during an earnings call. Maybe because this is such a small company.

OK--so I know there are i-banking groups at BB's and MM's outside of NY, Chicago, SF, Houston etc. They are few and far between, but if you search through online recruiting you can see a random energy IB analyst in phoenix or something. Do these guys work 85 hour weeks too?

What about boutiques--and i mean small 10-20 person M&A boutiques-- outside of the major areas? Most cities have them, and they have UG analysts--and I bet they work 60 - 80 hours.

Does anyone on this forum actually work outside of the major cities? Do you work typical hours and is your pay off because of it?

Standard and Poor dropped the hammer on Greece's debt, dropping the status to BBB. Now that their debt is entering the land of junk, it looks like Greece's problems just got much worse. But Greece isn't the only country in danger of these rating switches. Similar rating drops in Portugal show that countries ratings are starting to wane. The bigger worry, what happens if the U.S debt keeps getting bigger? There has already been informal talk from Moody's that if the U.S doesn't starting showing better trends, we could lose our AAA status. Granted, the firm warned this would only happen in 2013 at the earliest if debt increased in the same manner. However this leads to two questions

1. Is this a realistic concern or is the U.S simply a forever AAA rating?

2. What kind of effects would this cause, especially if Moody's 2013 estimate was far too charitable?

3. Any other countries that seem to be teetering from AAA status?

that a company's not that legit if the first 10 results on Google include wallstreetoasis?