Day 50 !!

相信上天的旨意，发生在这世界上的事情没有一样是出于偶然，终有一天这一切都会有一个解释。——三毛

這本五十頁厚的暑期作業終於大功告成了，也是我人生裡面最後一份暑期作業了。
離愁別緒yet to sink in。Tarot card 說我這個暑假是：“在一定壓力下順利完成”
可以順利完成，要特別鳴謝媽媽每天陪我起床，幫我打理襯衣，各種各樣的溫情提示！
謝謝爸爸哥哥的提點，鼓勵和無條件支持！
謝謝lpc intern list上面的朋友(esp. fikkay) 共渡難關，同舟共濟 (?)
謝謝同事＋mcs師姐們對我的超級包容，教導，就算超忙都成日塞錢入我袋。
謝謝溫先生 由mit到現在成為了我的精神safe haven。
謝謝何小姐 的家門常常開放，可以與局外人大肆吹水。
謝謝google小王子未能盡錄的幫忙支持，助我解決一個又一個難題，讓我可以回家吃飯 :P
and everyone I have met/interviewed with during the internship!

”Synthetic“ nametag…haha

The floor..！

cupcakes i bought for the team on last day

Final project a.k.a. my turnaround story…:P

A Typical Day at Work:

7:00am Arrive at desk, grab coffee , read emails and Reuters for news
7:20am Get morning meeting note
7:30am Morning Meeting with everyone
8:00am Trading Floor Huddle
9:00am Send out stock idea of the day to the team
(9:00am Buy breakfast for boss and myself ..)
9:30am “Ding Ding” – things go noisy …
10:00am Work..could be anything….
12:15pm Lunch, usually takeaway and bring it back to work and eat in front of monitor
1:30pm “Ding Ding” – things go noisy again..
4:00pm “Ding Ding” – cheers and gasps around the floor
7pm-ish Summarize client feedback and email out to all Asia offices
(an indicator that I could leave the office :p)

again..very grateful that my team hs given me a lot of chance to work on a wide range of stuff (from writing macro, to stock pitching in diff sectors and countries, from analyzing vote results , summarizing client feedbacks to meeting clients & companies). After understanding the reason behind each hand-on task, things add up together and really hv a better understanding of 來龍去脈

Rmb bro was asking me to look at research reports..they all look quite intimidating in the beginning..now I am so familiar with them now. same for everything else, intimidating at first, conquer it, and now you are comfortable with it. really, nothing to fear once you try

Final Feedback from my team:
overall speaking..luckily it’s quite positive!! one thing to improve is that I could have a “stronger presence”…again sometimes I am too shy to speak up and walk around to social. which I totally agree..but boss said after seeing my final presentation he believes that If I know something really well, I can convince people very strongly too ..’shy’ is just becoz of ‘lack of confidence’ working among experienced sales, so one day, one day….when I have built up expertise in something (which is still unknown), it should be fine.

“You have enormous potential…really impressed with your high quality work…keep it up and let’s stay in touch.”
“it is not just about the PPT but the logic flow and level of maturity…very impressive indeed.”
“Pretty impressive from a summer intern.”
“You learn very very fast and add-value with quality. a worthwhile and useful intern to have”
“I believe she could excel in and is suitable for hire in any front office divisions in the industry”

Key Takeaways:
由back office做到front office，對這個industry的理解更全面了。
第一天定下的3個goals
1) gain market sense
2) understand the role of each function in trading floor/ibank
3) identify my strength and skill set , and i.e. career fit for myself
大概都做到了！又一個非常steep卻rewarding的learning opportunity。
byebye~~!