Thoughts on corporate banking

Incoming freshman at the University of Virginia. I’m still undecided, but leaning towards Econ or Stats (which will let me graduate in 3 years). 

I was browsing careers, and came across corp banking. It seems like a chill job with interesting enough work, and was wondering what the day to day is like, a good path for me to break in, and what personalities do best in this career.

I tried looking up corporate bankers who went to UVA on linkedin, but I couldn't really find anything (I'm certain they exist though), so how should I go about finding people to talk to.

Also pm me if u got any personal advice or anecdotes lol.

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