Graduating in a month with an offer, Finance and Comp Sci guy

Greetings fellow primates,

My name is Kyle and I am expected to graduate in a month from Santa Clara University with a major in finance and a minor in computer science. I have been interning for an emerging markets brokerage located in the bay area for the past three months, and am expecting to receive an official offer by the end of the week. I am interested in fintech, high frequency trading, and generally speaking the intersection of finance and computer science. I am currently writing a python web crawler that will pull tweets about any stock within a portfolio (from twitter or an app like stock tweets), and create a sentiment index for the designated tickers. I am new to WSO and am hoping to get involved in the community. I would like to connect with people pursuing a career in fintech and am also seeking advice in picking the right first job and also on how to negotiate specifics of a first job.

Cheers

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