Interview
As the summer
of 2019
approached, my urgency to find an internship heightened. Not just any internship
-
not a summer camp internship
or
a sales internship, not a
“
build
your own business internship
,”
but a genuine and valuable internship that
would expose
me to real data and allow me to feel
that I had truly contributed
. When searching for such opportunities, positions
for
financial analysts at banks or credit unions appeared
, as well as d
ata analyst roles with
in companies of all sizes
. All of these potential opportunities for the summer
before my senior year of college
provided me with food for thought between breaks from my research papers, econometrics classes, and even grading. It allowed me to ask myself questions like,
“What
can I do with my major? What w
ill these roles entail on a day to day basis
? Will
the work
be fun?”
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