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Popular forms of social media is what I mean. Instagram, snapchat, etc. Stay in touch with people through whatever the best means are for you. I've never seen anyone at the top of the food chain care about instagram. They're too busy doing meaningful shit.

 
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Here is my advice. If you are not getting close to the other interns, you're in the wrong industry. This is a connections-based industry, that's what you're valued and paid for at the senior levels. Building rapport and real relationships and connections with these people is valuable. These interns and future analysts will be in the trenches with you during your analyst stint, and at most firms, its analysts v. everyone else. You will not survive your analyst years by presenting a blank facade to everyone, including your fellow future analysts/interns. Present a blank facade to everyone above you, but for your own sanity, leave yourself your analyst class.

With that said, there are always certain interns who are just not a great cultural mesh and don't interact much with the rest of the class, this is like the minority (20%) of your class usually. I'd say use your judgement here. Add the people that you like and mesh with (should be most of the class, ~70%) and don't add the rest.

I like to party and have fun too and my class know many of these inappropriate stories about me. Letting people learn more about you is a way to build strong relationships, not a weakness.

Perhaps this a biased point of thinking because my class is very close and tight-knit, but from my knowledge this seems to be most analyst classes.

edit: It's one thing to have inappropriate funny posts on social media, but please don't have anything on there you can explicitly be fired over (Racism, homophobia, etc). That's just not a smart move in this day an age, regardless of whether you or I find it funny.

 

I agree with making the valuable relationships with your coworkers/ fellow interns. But when you say your fellow interns knew about your embarassing/ partying stories, how do you know that these stories don’t leave your guys’ conversations and end up to your bosses? And now you seem like an inappropriate and irresponsible intern

 

Interns typically follow each other on day 1 of training and it'll definitely be a bit weird if you don't allow people to follow you...

As long as you're not showing up to work with the party, no one gives a F if you party. Especially fellow interns. People don't go home at night and sit in their suit, it's okay to have a life outside of work

 

I guess I’m just worried of other interns snitching to our boss if I’m smoking in a story and at a strip club or something lol

 

Going to a strip club is hardly rare in this industry. LOL

I mean, apparently, part of the reason Sapphire has Primal steakhouse, was to help bankers try to expense it, and I think it tends to be one of the more common activities among juniors.

There are some strip clubs that will even send promo info/invites (offering table, bottles, etc) to leadership in the hopes of someone bringing their team to celebrate. The industry has a bit of a (perhaps bad) reputation for a reason. LOL

Yea, nobody will care if you are at a strip club, just make sure you don't include your married MD or CEO in the photo, as that might be more of an issue. LOL

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