Internship, marriage and what now?

Got the offer coming out of the internship. Yay! Loved the job(both rotations) and the people I worked with.

Have accepted and sent my paperwork in. Affected by the current H-1B visa mess (http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/jul2004/bs2004077_1019_bs001.htm) but Deutsche is a good shop in general and a global bank so I should be OK if my visa application fails.

So what now? A little more time this year on the wife and kid now that the wife is working is expected. The previous learning strategy still applies with a bit more of a soft-skills and selling skills emphasis than before when I wanted to pick up buy-side equity research knowledge and global markets-related skills.

The rest is still coming together.

I have been busy with the Better Halves club, welcoming the dependents of the married and committed b-school incoming class.

Had a great time seeing my old cluster again and other old friends. Its funny when you realize that these are people that I have met and known for only a year.

I was shocked to hear about a couple of divorces affecting b-school students. I guess its statistically to be expected but I did notice the ones I know about had a common factor. The student chose to stay in one city while the spouse stayed in another. Don't underestimate the strain of distance on a marriage in combination with b-school. I am so glad that I chose to move my family up here all this time. We did consider as international students to just be apart and have her stay in Asia until things got settled up here.

Summer Internship

Currently in the middle of my summer internship - a generalist program with two rotations. And feeling very tired! However, its a massive learning experience. Some of the technical skils (visual basic financial modeling, ratio analysis for stocks) are coming in useful but the social skills are of the greatest value. I wish I had done more Bloomberg,Factiva,Reuters - research though.