What should I do? Help please
Had already accepted an offer for a solid MM which I was happy with but then got an offer from a top BB.
However I have a problem that the BB internship starts quite early and will clash with exams that I have whereas the MM won't. I study a v intensive degree and the fail rate is somewhat high with no resits allowed, and the thought of doing the exams inside of 80-100 hour work weeks (firm is sweaty) is causing me quite severe anxiety (I think I probably have this) in terms of risking failing which would force me to resit the year and probably screw up any chances of ever getting into IB. On top of this i dont want to piss off my team by having to take time off the SA. My grade for this year is currently bordering on the pass mark (pass mark is still a high grade) because I (somewhat stupidly) put so much time into recruiting.
On the one hand I am telling myself to stop being such a bitch and get on with it, on the other hand I also think it's right to put your mental health first sometimes. I'm having trouble sleeping etc because of it.
Would be grateful to hear anyone's thoughts on what I should do as struggling to make a decision and would be great to hear others perspectives. For reference this is London.
Let the BB know that you have exams during internship timeline. Is there anything that can be done?
Communication is an underutilized skill. You never know until you ask.
Yeah I will ask HR
Yeah I will ask HR
I’m from the US so not as familiar with in-school SAs but I would take the safe route of the MM unless the BB has a history of 90-100% offer rates. Also, I would think about how your profile would look like in a downside event of not securing a RO, is a good gpa and good mm better/worse than a crappy gpa and great bb?
BB is 75ish and MM is 80-90ish historically, also average candidate quality will be slightly worse at MM. GPA isn't the worry, its the high pass mark for my degree. US equivalent would be having to redo year for a 3.3 GPA bearing in mind this is also a very hard degree.
You keep saying it’s a hard degree and can’t get good grades. What is it?
I did aerospace engineering and it wasn’t that hard if you put in the work. And people keep comparing everything hard to rocket science.
From the senior bankers I talked to, no one takes the “hard degree” excuse seriously. It is something you chose, you are either good at it / willing to put in the work or you are not.
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