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11 Things All Business Students Can Relate To

What do you mean you're not interning at a bulge bracket bank your freshman summer?

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11 Things All Business Students Can Relate To
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Ah, behold: the most hated kids on any undergraduate college campus. Business students stick amongst themselves to discuss internships and the stock market. (Not really, but that's what everyone thinks they talk about. It's kind of true.) But there's a few things which all of us business undergrads can relate to.

1. Wanting more LinkedIn connections than Facebook friends.

Gotta get that 500+ under your profile, because otherwise recruiters will know you didn't network enough.

2. Being willing to skip a fun social event to go to a networking event.

Why go out to a restaurant with your friends when you could be chatting up the investment banking recruiter from Morgan Stanley? Coffee chats > coffee dates. Duh.

3. Feeling the tension in the room when Goldman Sachs comes in to do a panel.

Especially when it’s for investment banking. Only three people in that room will get a job at GS; will you be one of them?

4. Making fun of Econ majors at liberal arts colleges.


Because unless you’re at an Ivy League school, majoring in econ was obviously a backup. (Disclaimer: economics is actually really hard, so hats off to those people who major in it.)

5. Having a few copies of your resume with you at all times.

Who knows, maybe you'll run into Lloyd Blankfein on the streets!

6. Signing your emails with "best regards."

There isn't even an explanation for this, and we're in denial that we sound this formal.


7. Being constantly frustrated by the difference between business casual and business formal.

Is this skirt long enough? Is this the right shade of gray? (haha). Are these heels too high? Is my tie too skinny?

8. Getting judgmental looks from liberal arts majors at your university.

You’re known as the snakes of your school, but that’s okay because you embrace it.

9. Equating the lack of a summer internship to death.

You’re not interning at GS or JPM your freshman summer? Looks like you’re going to be jobless upon graduation.

10. Laughing at the idea of a 9 – 5 job.

Do those even exist? All about those 100 hour work weeks and the Bloomberg terminals.

11. Sending thank you emails to everyone you met at a networking event.

And then maybe hearing back from two of them, if you're lucky.

As hard as the life of a business student is, you know you wouldn't trade it for anything else. This education will pay off handsomely.

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