Delicate Dance

I think life is a delicate dance.

Therefore, I figured that I have to learn to dance delicately, while still enjoying the music nonetheless.

So on Friday I decided to be a badass, skipping my three classes for a networking session at a particularly renowned finance and assets management firm at New York. I would say that the experience itself is quite interesting, and as I learned (slightly painfully) myself, I am not an introvert. More to that later. I did get some handshakes, questions, and names, though. And for now I can at least tell the difference between a primary product and a secondary product, and also a risk manager and a product analyst.

Again, the same impression I got when I attended Morgan Stanley's info session last semester, if I ever get the chance to work my ass off in the finance world, it sounds like the workload of A Levels and Amherst's combined, with a typical 70-80 hours of working a week, and with much fewer holidays, probably around 15 days of paid leave per YEAR. But doing so will allow me to shit gold and piss silver.

Today was quite interesting. Again, there's this whole delicate dancing thingy in the morning, (but am very grateful nonetheless), and spent four hours on watching a softball game. Amherst was playing Middlebury, and thankfully we managed to win the third match. It doesn't help that the enemy's pitcher (no.1) and shortstop (no.7) are total hotties. (no.7 was an Asian btw, the only Asian in the whole field, yay fellow Asian!) Wrong place, wrong time, but good call ;)

And I ate dinner with this lad from Turkey who goes by Melih. He is an english major, and thinks that we all should read more english literature. Quiz for the readers: Can you name 5 female English writers? (I can't, and he thinks that it's a shame that very few people can.) ((Hint: The Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, To the Lighthouse, Pride and Prejudice, Harry Potter :p) He has an interesting point though, and probably I shall take more humanities classes.

Alright, catch you later!

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