Oh, the life of the emotional ping pong....
Why is it that I never seem to have just a good day or just a bad day, and that it always ends up being either a boring day or a mixed up, rollercoaster kind of day?
My JP Morgan Fleming interview was this morning. I wanted to make sure I got plenty of sleep and had enough time in the morning to read the news before my 10am interview, so I got to bed really early. Despite my planning though, at 1am sharp some stupid dorm resident decided to leave a firedoor open, resulting in the obnoxiously loud fire alarm rousing me from my beauty sleep, forcing me to wait downstairs in the cold in my PJs until the firemen came and gave the all clear. I finally got back to sleep, and when I awoke I was a bit tired, but not enough to really mind it. I discovered, though, that for some strange reason, my dorm had turned off the hot water. *sigh*
So anyways, I got to the interview really early, so I went across the street and had some tea to calm myself while looking over the Financial Times again. The interview itself went ok I think. The hundreds of applicants had been pared down to just myself and two others, so I was honoured to just have made it to the second round in the first place. I met with three pairs of interviewers, all from the currency management department of JPM. The interviews were much more qualitative in nature this time than last time, so I got lots of "What can you bring to our team?" and "Give me an example of a time where you had to think outside of the box to overcome a challenge." That was fine though, those are the sorts of questions I'm always prepared for when interview time rolls around. But then, they couldn't let me off that easy, could they? No, then they asked me "Ok, now what's the square root of eight factorial?" And then they asked "What's the pound/dollar trading at currently?" Thank goodness I'd arrived early and had enough time to look over the newspaper. I was tempted to say "oh, it's at about 1.78624, biatch" but I restrained myself and still managed to impress them. All things told I think I did well, but I'm sure the other two finalists were as qualified as I am, so I don't have any real expectations of landing the internship. I should know by the middle of next week if I got it.
Next, I found out while at work that Sacha'd picked my room for next year for me. (Since I obviously can't go to my housing appointment, I appointed him as my proxy). Apparently Reslife screwed me over and gave me senior status rather than 5th year status, since my credits from abroad haven't transferred yet seeing as how, duh, I'm still here. So unless something changes, it looks like no castle for me ever while at Oberlin. :(
And finally, I got home after work to discover an email from the economics department at Oberlin offering me one of the few places in the Economics Honors program for next year! This means I get to write a senior thesis, participate in honors discussions, and I get to graduate with one of three levels of honors (cum laude, summa cum laude, or magna cum laude) depending on my thesis and examination results! So yeah, this was very exciting for me.
Right, so today has had a ridiculous amount of good and bad things happen. Now I'm exhausted, so I think I will go to sleep.
My JP Morgan Fleming interview was this morning. I wanted to make sure I got plenty of sleep and had enough time in the morning to read the news before my 10am interview, so I got to bed really early. Despite my planning though, at 1am sharp some stupid dorm resident decided to leave a firedoor open, resulting in the obnoxiously loud fire alarm rousing me from my beauty sleep, forcing me to wait downstairs in the cold in my PJs until the firemen came and gave the all clear. I finally got back to sleep, and when I awoke I was a bit tired, but not enough to really mind it. I discovered, though, that for some strange reason, my dorm had turned off the hot water. *sigh*
So anyways, I got to the interview really early, so I went across the street and had some tea to calm myself while looking over the Financial Times again. The interview itself went ok I think. The hundreds of applicants had been pared down to just myself and two others, so I was honoured to just have made it to the second round in the first place. I met with three pairs of interviewers, all from the currency management department of JPM. The interviews were much more qualitative in nature this time than last time, so I got lots of "What can you bring to our team?" and "Give me an example of a time where you had to think outside of the box to overcome a challenge." That was fine though, those are the sorts of questions I'm always prepared for when interview time rolls around. But then, they couldn't let me off that easy, could they? No, then they asked me "Ok, now what's the square root of eight factorial?" And then they asked "What's the pound/dollar trading at currently?" Thank goodness I'd arrived early and had enough time to look over the newspaper. I was tempted to say "oh, it's at about 1.78624, biatch" but I restrained myself and still managed to impress them. All things told I think I did well, but I'm sure the other two finalists were as qualified as I am, so I don't have any real expectations of landing the internship. I should know by the middle of next week if I got it.
Next, I found out while at work that Sacha'd picked my room for next year for me. (Since I obviously can't go to my housing appointment, I appointed him as my proxy). Apparently Reslife screwed me over and gave me senior status rather than 5th year status, since my credits from abroad haven't transferred yet seeing as how, duh, I'm still here. So unless something changes, it looks like no castle for me ever while at Oberlin. :(
And finally, I got home after work to discover an email from the economics department at Oberlin offering me one of the few places in the Economics Honors program for next year! This means I get to write a senior thesis, participate in honors discussions, and I get to graduate with one of three levels of honors (cum laude, summa cum laude, or magna cum laude) depending on my thesis and examination results! So yeah, this was very exciting for me.
Right, so today has had a ridiculous amount of good and bad things happen. Now I'm exhausted, so I think I will go to sleep.