Day 1: network...network...network...

Met the rest of the quant interns...just a handful of us. Brilliant people. Basically today was just some formal firm intro stuff and a lot of networking...and networking. Most of the summer interns are from UK schools, with the rest coming from top US colleges (Harvard, MIT, Columbia, UPenn, UChicago, NYU, etc) and other European schools (Insead, IESE, ESSEC, etc). Those from UK are dominated by grads from Oxbridge, LSE and Imperial. Apparently competition is extremely intense this year...less than 3% of total applicants got offered a place. Wow...seems much more competitive than full-time positions.

A very tiring day...talking to people and remembering names are far more exhausting than exam revision. Anyway, that's the nature of the business - building relationships.