Waiting for summer, doing prep and stuff, what else?

First post here. I’m an incoming capital markets IB SA at BB in NYC. Have a semester in college left until summer stint. I am preparing for the summer by staying up to date on markets and news, reading up on more advanced technicals, and plan on doing one of these online prep courses.

Was curious to hear how others prepared for the summer, or enjoyed their college experience more after having gotten their offers. As a side note I am working w younger kids to help them get offers which feels nice but isn’t time consuming and I am looking to do more.

What did you do? (Internship (related field or not), other job(something fun) transfer colleges, travel (can’t rlly cuz in skl), drop out of skl (has been a srs thought to just get FT offer and switch to a fake online college)…

Most of learning is done on the job, so is focusing so much on prep even worth it?

Are their hobbies most ppl do once they start working that would be good to start now?

Anything worth getting out of the way now so don’t need to do it when start FT?

Is it too early to start having exit op conversations/networking/recruit for alt FT gigs as failsafes if I don’t get return offer?

Curious to hear advice from other incoming SA, incoming FT, and current FT. Try to keep chain srs.

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