From somewhere in the foggy past, unposted until now:
So it’s the end of P3. Very strange. Consistent with the rest of this madcap adventure, the last few months went by in the blink of an eye.
I really do feel like it was just yesterday I was walking through the streets of Paris in solitary muteness, shoes crunching softly on the snow as I made my way along the Seine towards the Eiffel Tower, mentally composing a French rhyme and wondering how I was going to get to Fonty, and when I did, what I would do there and how I would cope. Well. I’m still around and I’m still alive.
P3 in Fonty gave me room to breathe. Granted, lots of the breathing was beleaguered huffing and puffing through the snow- and cold-laden 25-minute walk to campus, I’ve had good, quality time for introspection. I actually got my act together somewhat – not as much as I would have liked, but I started the job search and actually did some hard work for class.
So in distilled form, from IPA, Macro, Investments, IFM, Nego, OCR networking events, INDEVOR and job hunt, here is a menu of takeaways:
- It matters who owns you (IFM)
- Ask the right questions to the right people (Nego, DB networking cocktails)
- Market exposure (beh-tah or duration) matters and is different on the upside and the downside (Investments, The Neverending ISP)
- Engage – it’s the only way to make things happen (INDEVOR, jobs)
- Interviews: people will see how much of your heart is in it, and that is what sets you apart from other equally competent people at the end of the day (INDEVOR)
- Trade execution is an enormous new can of worms! (Investments)
- REER! (Macro)
- WACC or CF’s compare apples to apples (IFM)
- Don’t make big mistakes! Focus on the big picture and then go into the numbers. (Nego)
