Is it unwise for me to focus on improving skills and gaining experience that are directly useful towards an M&A analyst role

I'm a first year student at university......this summer part of my plans include mastering microsoft excel, I bought a CD to help me with this....will also practice mandarin which i took on this year...and do some networking and try to get some unpaid private wealth work experience for whenever i can....(may have to be next year)

thanks

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5.00/5

Private Equity Mock Coffee Chat

“Julius was extremely helpful in breaking down the accounting concepts, especially allowing me the opportunity to walk through a question step by step on how the three financial statements are impacted across income, cash flow and balance sheet along with figuring out the mental math for it all. The concept for Equity Value to Enterprise value and bridging between the two were fairly straight forward. Along with the networking advice on reaching out to potential recruiters for Investment banking roles and how lateral recruitement is happening year end vs going into Q1 next year.”

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