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Do you have group placement? If you’re in the city over the summer, I would schedule grabbing coffee. If you were close with someone, never bad to just catching on call.

I am joining this summer FT after converting my SA. I only have my thesis to submit this semester which I am writing from an island in Indonesia. My team recommended me to use that time to travel around and « log off » from all the networking and stuff until summer

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I gambled. A lot.

bump. i wanna hear from current bankers lol.

I'm in this position right now and using the time to take advantage of being free for the last time for at least 2-5 years. Doing a bunch of things I won't have time or energy to do once I start. 

I haven't reached out to anyone from my bank yet but since I have been placed in a group yet I will probably reach out ~1-2 months before my start date but probably not before then. Have talked with my intern class some mainly about all the stuff we are required to do before we start. 

I went to UIUC and at that time it was very easy to finish in 3.5 years in finance. I had several friends take their IB signing bonuses for a semester off. They stayed on campus mostly to party and planned a couple of big trips. Seemed like fun to me. 

I wouldn't aggressively engage with your future team. Maybe just an email to a couple of your closer colleagues every other month. They are busy and not looking for things to respond to. They already know you and that you are coming. No contact would also not upset anyone.

1. Got as athletic as possible. Even got to compete. Trying to get it back now but I had so much time, junior year in particular, that I reached a level I didn't think was possible in terms of my strength, speed, and endurance
2. Travelled. Both a semester abroad and travelling literally every weekend. Both solo and with friends. Met so many cool people and learned a lot about the world
3. Lived up social life - with friends and girls. Just had a ton of fun. Couple flings, one gf that didn't work out. Nothing more fun then throwing a ball with the guys on a sunny friday afternoon.
4. Worked a couple internships to make money / get reps. No regrets here
5. Kept up GPA but was not sweating about it. Ended with a solid GPA that has gotten me looks at all types of exits even though it's less then a 3.9
6. Read a few books about everything except finance. Wanted to diversify my knowledge and see if I found any new interests
7. Did some prep work for full time. Just enough to hit the ground running

Life's short. Enjoy college. No regrets. Now I have basically no time to pursue any of these hobbies but I am working everyday toward my long term career goals. Idk where I heard this quote originally but a google search tells me it's from Betty Friedan: "You can have it all, just not all at the same time". 

Go travel and enjoy life as much as you can. Once you hit the desk, it may be some time before you find happiness again. This job is a MF and it’s hard to enjoy life after you start.

Get some travel in

Get jacked. the average person even in finance who has not already managed to "master" the basic human hygiene of having visible abs by college (when we are still kids - similar to every other hygiene habit) - then they never will.