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Name: Mark David
Birthday: 8/14/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: being half asian really isn't cool, especially when you inherit all the bad traits
Expertise: anything i touch
Occupation: Student
Industry: Medical
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AIM:  mdsqwerty
Member Since:
6/6/2003
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| Sort of down today. A lot of the brothers in the fraternity recieved superb internships at ibanks including six with goldman sachs. Wish I was fortunate enough but I obviously did not work hard enough. Although I was one of the few that didn't get as great of an internship as everyone else, it is this sort of pitfall that gives me the motivation to work harder. Since coming to Berkeley, I have felt that I lost that motivation to work hard. For the past three years, I had one goal of making into a reputable university and now that I had achieved that goal, I didn't know what to do. Now I know what I need to do to achieve my goals.
First is to prioritize my stuff. Sleep less, relax less. Go study at Dwinelle at least 4 hours a day.
Second, read more on markets. Subscribe to wsj and economist. Then start prepping for fall interviews. I need to make use of the resources available such as the brothers who have had experiences interviewing. Coming out of pledging, I feel that I was not able to make use of the resources as well as I could have.
Third: Get in shape and work harder at everything. | | |
| Today we had ice breakers for the new pledges of the fraternity. ARGH I feel so old. Most of the pledges are freshman which makes me feel super old because of my junior status. I think it is kind of sad that I only have one more year of schooling left and then I am done for good. | | |
| Today I was writing an obituary of myself for Organizational Behavior when my friend Eric Cheng came in and told me that our classmate from junior high and high school was killed in Iraq. I am still in disbelief that someone that I had grown up with has died.
I hear people dying all the time in Iraq that I have come to disregard the deaths as something that "happens" similarly to how people are frequently reported dead on the news from murders and homicides. But after hearing about him, it brought me back with reality and the realization that I things don't always "work out" as it would in an ideal world. Creating a successful life for oneself, let alone making it through, is it hit or miss. Although working hard can influence the long term results, there is always a chance you won't make it there because of externalities beyond your control.
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| Finished a week of recruiting for investment banks. Unfortunately the process did not go as smoothly as I had imagined it to be. The good news is that I wrote down many of the questions I was asked so that I can better prepare for full-time interviews. At least the process is over and I have a PAID internship secure for the summer.
My life is a really exhausting. I have been trying to cope by sleeping all the time, however, it is beginning to affect daily duties. In fact, as I was coming back to Berkeley on Sunday, I had to pull off to the side of the road because I was too tired to continue driving. It is a little humorous because while I was sleeping, I left my foot on the brake and killed my battery. I owe Peter big time for driving over to jump-start my car.
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| After looking over the Xanga, I realize that it is also time to update some things. It is crazy to look over the different things I wrote. And to imagine, I used to think bleach hair was cool. Well, it is a little...
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