Author: impromptuz

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又再次陷入無止境等待的漩渦內，好讓人焦慮。
每當要灑脫地把它移進盲點，「好，遺忘它吧」
但總會有人不識趣地提起。
於是，我選擇了無視。

 

從來都不是兩個人的事。

• 昨天花了一個晚上把最後一個Fall semester的schedule整理好。嘩，原來下星期就開學了。到時，「九月＝開學」這個定理亦隨即被廢除。不經意就走到我學生生涯裡的最後一年，老豆隨口說句:「等你讀多幾年書先啦。｣仲多幾年？！

• 有人問：｢你覺得自己比較適合上班或者上學？」其實人生只可以limited to 這兩條路嗎？誰定的定律？

• 香港的炎夏很讓人窒息。燙人的陽光，混沌的空氣，蒸發中的人汗，擠迫的地鐵車廂，一切都令人鼓噪不耐煩。
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• 陰差陽錯，每一段關係都很cyclical。人生路越多分叉，就越難定取捨。有些人脈總能一拍即合，有些一旦detached了就極難再度重拾。
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• 第一次入投注站，竟然無比人趕，yessh!

7 more classes to graduation! 

1.201 Transportation Systems
15.279 Business Communications 
15.301 Managerial Psychology
15.433 Investments…

ho hea :)
Spring 2011..to finish my engineering major
fluid mechanics
engineering for sustainability
one more Econ class/ humanities class

– finish concentration completion form
– petition for CI-M class …
– then done!
由今天起，暑假才正式開始。

我的完美假期是這樣的－－睡覺，吃飯，上上網，繼續睡。
所以今天無事可記。 哈

好喜歡張氏情歌，雖然聽了十幾次都唔知想講meh野。

今天打大佬，1 on 1 30mins 的interview，
變了90 mins & 45 mins …就算得or not，
也是 so far 最面白い的面試經驗。

~ Round 1 ~
望了我張cv一眼，就摺埋佢，話佢唔會judge me by my academic background
What matters start from now.

問左太多野…@-@
End-result係佢請我食lunch..hahaa

(1) 一本notepad，要係100秒內manufacture一個50cm長，可以飛5m遠的object。過左50秒he gave me one more raw material – a pen…其實just by throwing the pen would work already ..hahaha

(2) if I go up and tell boss B u interviewed last time that I hate you a lot, what’s your contingency plan?

(3) If I ask you to quit MIT now and work with us tomorrow, yes or no? No? Convince me. What is the added value in that one more year to us? I don’t care if you are a college grad or not. The final year only matters to you.

(4) if i gave you 1m USD now to buy a property anywhere in the world, where? Why? How big? And how? One-off or mortgage? How many % down payment?

(5) So you have interviewed with 5 people already, who do you like the least among the 5?

(6) OK. From the last 1.5 hours, tell me what u know about me. How old am I ? Am I married? (got wedding ring haha) How many kids? Do I wear glasses usually? (yes on his working pass XD) How many companies have I worked at?

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~~!