need help SALVAGING a dead summer
I'm an econ research assistant for a professor affliated with a well known Washington DC think tank. The professor has pretty interesting projects and credentials. But my work for him is hardly interesting or impressive. All I do is research stuff like Sarbanes-Oxley and write up summaries, all from googling and wikipedia. I hardly understand half the stuff I copy and paste from Wikipedia for him.
Now my goal is to find a summer analyst job for 2008. I'm going with him to Washington DC this weekend for a conference and might meet some big-shots there. But other than that, I'm just a drone. With the amount of time left in the summer, what can I do to make this internship worthwhile? Cause so far the only good thing about it is free room and board on campus so I can chilax with friends.
Let's take a step back. This is my sophomore summer. Let's pretend I didnt find any internship and am sitting at home. With 1 month left, what are the stuff that I can do in terms of reading/learning to prepare myself and land a BB SA internship for 08?
Thanks in advanced from a worried drone who wants to be a monkey.
^^^this summer was pretty much dead to me...just couldn't find anything....so i started my own organization, and also entered a nation wide trading competition....hopefully that will help me explain the gap in the summer
bigbilly, Make the research look interesting, were you analyzing financial regulations or something. You pretty much won't be able to have anything other than that - try and join the investment club at your school. Do you go to a target, and what is your GPA? If you are an Econ major, you can play it off as if you are academically interested in Econ.
Mack - what sort of organization? How did you start one during the summer? If it was business related that is good.
Find a comfy couch, open a bottle of beer and watch some tv or something. Don't worry about next year so much. There'll be plenty of worrying to do when next year comes :)
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Mack how did the competition turn out?
All I did was just summarize financial regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley. Very basic stuff but you really actually need to be in law to find those stuff interesting. These stuff he has me read goes in one ear and comes out the other.
I do go to a target but my gpa is only in the mid 3.5s, that's why I'm very worried about even getting interviews for the upcoming summer.
What stuff should I be reading to actually make this summer worth something in terms of preparing? Any advice on how I can actually spin this as something favorable? Cause I feel like I didnt learn anything except how to C&P from Wikipedia.
ThANKS!
right now i'm in the top 5%...check out my thread on the trading forum, i thought i was getting lucky, but i don't think so anymore lol....
3.5 and at a target??....you shouldn't worry as much....i have a 3.5 at a non target in nyc (target for operations) and its hard to convince recruiters why i'm better than someone at an ivy....their thinking is along the lines of...."yea you got a 3.5, but you weren't smart/fit enough to get into a better school"...so you might actually have an advantage over me even though i've had great experiences and ec's and a decent gpa....
I would just try to make what you did at the internship sound really important like the other poster said...get at me on aim LLL2429...im interested in where you are going with this...
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