Came with the idea that it'll be easy for me to get an internship in the US - with my exchange programme experience and all - and in turn get a job, but I was quite wrong. The first culture shock came when the school had career fairs for business students the past 2 days. Everyone was dressed in business suits, and armed with copies of CVs, waiting for give to potential companies. So unlike in the UK, where everyone just went in jeans and t-shirts... (Feel a bit like the pirated version of Cinderella - even if I want to go to the career fair, I can't because I don't have business suit)
Met Lionel as he was heading to the fair. [Lionel's a junior (3rd year), Singaporean, and he's going to take the whole of next semester off to work at Deloitte, a multi-national auditing and consulting firm] Thought that probably means he's got a job guaranteed, but not really, he's still pretty much in the search of more internships and jobs. *sigh*
Moreover, it's very common to enter professional sororities and fraternities (for business students) here. In fact, if u're not in one, it's tough to survive out there. In the first place, it's not easy to get into one - initiation takes 1 whole semester, during which u have to meet the people 3 times a week, socialising and assimilate into their 'culture'. Tough job, to be pretending to enjoying drinking and socialising in the midst of a heavy study workload. Zhensi was saying that when you work later on, people who are in these sororities and fraternities will be regarded as in the 'brotherhood'/'sisterhood' and it's also a form of networking. Hai, probably I should have applied to study in the US earlier on. Too late for regrets.
Never mind, guess I can't pin my hopes too high of getting an intern in US anymore, less to say the UK. Shall keep my options open, try China... =)
Met Lionel as he was heading to the fair. [Lionel's a junior (3rd year), Singaporean, and he's going to take the whole of next semester off to work at Deloitte, a multi-national auditing and consulting firm] Thought that probably means he's got a job guaranteed, but not really, he's still pretty much in the search of more internships and jobs. *sigh*
Moreover, it's very common to enter professional sororities and fraternities (for business students) here. In fact, if u're not in one, it's tough to survive out there. In the first place, it's not easy to get into one - initiation takes 1 whole semester, during which u have to meet the people 3 times a week, socialising and assimilate into their 'culture'. Tough job, to be pretending to enjoying drinking and socialising in the midst of a heavy study workload. Zhensi was saying that when you work later on, people who are in these sororities and fraternities will be regarded as in the 'brotherhood'/'sisterhood' and it's also a form of networking. Hai, probably I should have applied to study in the US earlier on. Too late for regrets.
Never mind, guess I can't pin my hopes too high of getting an intern in US anymore, less to say the UK. Shall keep my options open, try China... =)
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