College experience and recruiting struggles

I am a junior in college and I feel miserable. I hate my school (non-target). I feel like my peers aren’t motivated the same way I am and I haven’t been able to connect well with almost anyone. I also feel that I’m living a lie telling everyone that I love my school when deep down I know I’m not happy. I have had decent internships at a single manager fund and have an internship lined up in equity research at a no name boutique. I feel disappointed with my recruiting and at this point there’s nothing I can do. I want to break into the HF industry (ideally L/S equity) but I don’t think my exit opps will be great from this firm since so have only seen one person from this firm make the transition to a multi manager and maybe 2-3 move to a BB research team. I am overall disappointed with my college experience so far and feel like I have nothing to show for it when other kids at my school have gotten better internships at major ER platforms and seem to get into all of the clubs in the world while I am left stranded in a way. The bottom line is I feel stuck and not sure what I should do and how I should go about full time recruiting for ER/HFS. Any advice on college or full time recruiting would be helpful. I just want something to show for my hard work that I can be proud of.

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If you are able to land internship at single manager hedge fund and sell-side research, by definition, you should have no respect for your school and your peers who probably dream small, are lazy and spend more time in the football stadium than in the library. Fast forward ten years if you keep up your mindset and work ethic, your peers will be delivering pizza and mowing the lawn for you. 

You are on the right track. Being alpha in a beta place is lonely, get used to it. 

 

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