It is summer now. And typically, summer is associated with things like going to beach, stay over at friend's, backpacking, and so on. However, that is not the case for Asian students who is living not so far away from the equator that makes beaches nonsense. Having inspired by my fellow Singaporean friends (and some kiasu Indonesian friends), I decided to take a summer internship in a banking and finance sector (yes, my major is pure physics where you learn how to get 3/2 in the kinetic theory of gases). Internship is actually compulsory for some majors like engineering or business, and not for me. However, I feel the urge of exploring new knowledge apart of the thing that I am used to.
So far, one week has passed and things went pretty much plain except for some data entry projects (like typing tons of information from a magazine to excel file). But that is not the main point of the story, I learned how life works in a different way. For example, I always thought that finance and banking are the most boring job that exists in the world but actually they are really interesting (since I have not met the electrodynamics of finance anyway). I feel like my 'financial consciousness' has finally awaken from an uber long hibernation. And reading corporate finance textbook plus random wikipedia article for 8 hours is also very interesting (including history of Myanmar, biography of Dalai Lama or even sophisticated philosophy related article). And my conclusion is, money is important (you don't say), but reading wikipedia article is much more interesting.
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