Bombed a SD and cant get it out

Any advice to get over this? It was my first one and it feels worse because it was for a pretty well regarded group on the street, also feels worse because I got in the process by pure luck(right place right time I guess) so it feels like I blew a really good chance. I wasn’t nervous or anything, just under prepared. Not looking for you monkeys to stroke my cock and tell me it’ll be okay, I know where I fucked up, I know what needs to be done, it just feels shitty that something like this opportunity probably won’t come again. how to move forward from this ? In my head any new opportunities are going to be compared to this one and they’re going to feel marginally worse. I’ve been reading a lot on here about only needing that 1 lucky opportunity and going all out for it and it feels like I blew that big time.

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I got my superday accelerated because I told a networking contact who I was close with that I had a superday at another bank. Not even an offer, just a superday. There's ways to frame everything, you don't need to outright lie or get blacklisted but you can get creative. 

 
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I blew the interview for my top choice of sophomore internship. Stung a lot, it was all down to me and my lack of preparation. Ended up getting a superday for a junior year internship, blew that as well. I drilled down to why I had failed, and it was due to a lack of preparation for both technical and behavioral questions, you can’t just wing it or you’ll choke. And so I studied the guides, found every question I could, and put it into a giant quizlet set. I then sat in front of my computer and recorded myself for 12 hours a day, watched each response, and did this for two weeks straight. Repeated some questions 25 times in a row until I could do them without even using my brain. Nailed my last superday, was super chill/zen and in the zone the whole time and got a great offer from a group I really liked. Some of the feedback I got was I was the best prepared interviewee they had all day and they thought I sold myself really well. Think about why you screwed up, drill down, it’s painful. It’s in the past now, you can’t change it. But don’t feel bad for yourself, find your mistakes (nerves, behaviorals, whatever), eliminate your mistakes (through practice interviews, get feedback if you can, through practicing in front of your laptop camera), and fucking kill it on your next one. It stings to have missed out on your best opportunity but really, things could be a lot, lot worse. Get your head back in the game and fucking kill it. Good luck!

 

given that you know what went wrong and how you could improve for the next interview, i guess you're asking for advice along the line of how to get out of this mental rut? if that's the case, first of, i'd say just take a day off, spend time with your family, dwell in your melancholy and watch netflix or whatever - it takes time to get out of this feeling, and sometimes you telling yourself you should stop feeling this way won't help.

in aiding you to get out of this feeling, i'd recommend you just take a step back and take a larger view of things, this couldn't possibly be the only great opportunity in your life! it seems like so at the moment, and i feel you, but there will be more opportunities down't the line. also, i'm a believer that things happen for a reason, perhaps the internship/position wasn't meant to be. however, that's not to say you don't deserve a spot in a "regarded group on the street' - you do, i'm rooting for you! it's just perhaps not the one you just did the interview for

just some background, i had a horrible superday also and i felt so bad considering how close i was to an offer — but things work out in the end, and i believe it will work out for you too!

 

Gotta get up and keep going. I submitted over 1000 applications, started over 30 processes, got to a dozen final rounds, and received 1 FT offer before I graduated. If you can't take lot of failure on the chin and keep pushing forward, you will not survive and do not belong in this industry. 

 
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I ran the gambit. IB, PE, VC, enterprise software sales, various startups, equity research, a few HFs. Had a diverse set of internships in college so I could make good cases for any of them. Ended up in M&A then got offers between the VC arm of a blue chip HF or PE near the end of my 2nd year, chose the latter. Considering I came from a non-target and graduated with a sub-3.5, I'm quite happy with how things turned out. 

 

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