An Outlet: Part 5

10 December, 2018.

Now that I have my CV in place, I need to start revising quite a lot of things to prove what I've written on my CV.

To Do List for today:
-> Figure out Placement progress
-> Figure out Research Paper progress and where do I stand/ if I even stand anywhere anymore
-> Copy/ Revise Kristen's notes for Stats class
-> International Finance and Intercultural Marketing HW

I don't know how the others do it but missing even one class pulls me back quite a lot. But I already knew it and I absolutely needed this trip so I have zero regrets.

Today's Corporate Valuation class was a bit difficult to understand but a little bit of revision and I'm sorted. Which is why I spent my free lecture (aka the hour where I didn't have any class) copying all the Finance notes that I had missed last week. Export Marketing lecture on the other hand was a piece of cake.

Right after the Export Lecture, we had our placement meet (just to be clear, I'm out of the placement 'cell' now. My decision.). They told us about pre-placement talks, resume evaluation and stuff. There is one company coming to our college and they're ready to take in around 40 finance students but as interns. This internship will last for 3 months starting right away after the tenure of which, they'll give out jobs based on our performance.

So now here are the problems. First of all, this internship starts right away and I only want one after I graduate. Plus, I don't want an internship anymore, I want a job. Though there is a job opportunity here after 3 months, what if I don't get it? What do I do then?

Having said that, I do want to go for the interview. The company is good and I want to try giving interviews to build my skills. But there's a catch in that as well. This company is looking for 40 (internship) placements while there are only 20 people who have opted for finance placements and I'm pretty sure even lesser number of people will apply. There is a clause that you cannot reject a job offer once it has been given to you. As it is there will be less people opting for the offer and if I get selected I won't be able to get out of it. Let's see what happens.

The remainder of the break was spent in discussing the research paper. The other three members have done quite well with the paper and I feel really guilty of not contributing. I don't want to be kicked out of this research paper so I'm positive I'm going to work harder to prove my worth in this project.

I didn't get time to eat lunch because of these meetings and my statistics class began. I wasn't able to revise any notes so I was completely and absolutely blank during the test. It didn't matter whether I submitted my paper or not but I'm getting a zero. For sure. I have to really really buck up for this class. I used to hate math until the 9th grade after which it became one of my favourite subjects. But then, math completely went out of the syllabus after the first year of senior college so that was a bummer. Now that I have it again, I have to start working hard and liking it the way I used to.

After class, Kristen, Paul and I chilled for a while. It's been quite some time since I've done this with them so it felt nice. Mondays are the only days where I can actually sit and talk to them. Paul had to leave very soon but Kristen and I had some tasty pizza and pasta which I shouldn't have had considering I ate my lunch right before having these two items.

After coming back home, I completed my International Finance HW because that's the first lecture I have tomorrow and this professor doesn't allow students to even enter class if we haven't done the assignment.

To remind myself again, from now on, I have to:
-> Revise things from my CV
-> Get more info on the Finance scene in general
-> Read the newspaper
-> Get my CV reviewed
-> Work on IBC
-> Study for my degree
-> Digital Notes