Swiss Finance Academy Journal Day 1
Today was one of the most exhausting days of my life. I learned that if I really want something bad enough, I'll do ANYTHING to get it. After missing the bus from Geneva Airport, traveling on the train all night in a foreign country not knowing any of its 3 languages, rolling my luggage through Lugano at 5:00am in the morning, and sleeping 3.5 hours total today - yet expected to perform, I now have a great story to tell in my own I-Banking interview. Not to toot my own horn, but I am one tenacious guy!
I learned that my skills in Finance are not nearly as competent or complete as I had once imagined. The assessment test whipped me into submission, the lectures by both Sanjay and James Linck were highly-sophisticated, and the general level of intelligence here by the other students rivals or supersedes my own. Talk about a lesson in humility!
The day has been a tough one and I am about to collapse. I can't finish this accounting work of balancing my Assets, Liabilities, and Equity, and I will not stoop to getting the answers off of someone. I've learned that working hard and possibly failing is better than looking like a poser who knows nothing, but got an “A” on the homeworks.
Oh, and one more thing -- It had better stop raining already!!
