Midterms are over

Midterms are finally over! And by ‘finally’ I mean that the tests are over and the results have been received. Well, the receiving part wasn’t too fun, but, at least I have finals to try to make up for it. Now I’m spending a lit of time focusing on recruiting. Since I am interested in finance in a company, it is as if the recruiting process is my oyster. Every company has some sort of finance function, so I can go to any presentation that is geared towards any function and say “I’m interested in corporate finance” to which I will be given contact information for the appropriate recruiter.

Presentations are great. I am able to learn about companies in many different industries and what products and/or services they currently offer or plan to offer in the future. Since business really interests me, I enjoy learning more about different companies and the functions they are recruiting for. One of the perks of presentations are the goodies. We get shirts and water bottles and post its among other things. American Express gave us Rubix cubes where they replaced the basic solid color squares with pictures of their products like the Gold Card and the Traveler’s Cheque card. Even though presentations are great, I am limited by the fact that there is only one of me and I don’t have enough time to go to everything. For instance, yesterday there was a corporate finance presentation for Microsoft, but I had to attend the Merrill Lynch commodities group presentation. And later that night, Lehman Brothers (a bank) had a presentation, but I RSVPed to attend a dinner sponsored by Kraft. Its all too much. Today, I am going to a presentation for the Federal Reserve Bank of NY in the morning, Mattell early evening, Sears after that, then I have to run downtown to the Blue Water Grill restaurant for a dinner with McKinsey!

In other news, my mom was in town last week. Our time together was real chill. We went to Chicago GSB’s DuSable conference on Friday night where we heard Chris Gardner, the inspiration for the new movie The Pursuit of Happyness, speak, and where my mom was able to meet a lot of my friends. The rest of the time was spent sitting on the couch and talking politics. Overall, it was a good visit.