Help With Why IB Story

Hey everyone, I'm a rising third-year recruiting for SA 2021 and I have a couple questions about how to frame my story. I'm currently interning at a small PE shop, and I definitely want to go back to PE after IB, so my biggest question is how do I best tell the story for why PE to IB? Should I just talk about how I really enjoyed the modeling aspect but don't like being on the investor side? I don't know if that's really believable at all, so I want to hear what other people think. Thanks

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