I passed!

I passed Level 1 of the CFA exams!

Woo hoo!

Zoom Zoom Zoom without the Vroom-Vroom

Is this roadster cool or what?

Internship Update

Prompted by a comment from KV, I thought I'd talk a little bit about my internship.

First off, I'll say that our Alumni Network (especially my program - since it has 35 years of history) had alot to do with me landing the job in the first place. That's not to say I wasn't qualified, though. IM is an interesting industry. I've blogged about that before.

At any rate, the job is very cool. I'm the "Hedge Fund Intern" and I am employee #18, I think (10 are investment people). Most of the day I am running screens, calling companies, writing up investment ideas, or defending them. Everday I'm reminded that I made the right decision to be where I am.

I am also getting a chance to see the Private Equity world from the inside. I had no idea really what PE was like before coming to bschool. Having been a GE trained engineer it would have been difficult. There is some irony in that in order to be around new technologies on a weekly basis, I had to move from engineering to finance. To quote the McD's commercial - I'm lovin' it.