It's summer time in chapel hill. Nice and sunny with cool breeze occasionally blowing. Perfect to chill out and relax. College town loses its regular life in the summer. Business is slow, you get to see fewer people in the bars and restaurants. But all this is perfect for people who prefer lesser crowds. I'am able to see all this courtesy my prolonged battle in getting an internship. Until the classes got over and people started going off , I could maintain some morale but after that I had to dig real deep to keep me going and send that extra cover letter and resume to a job posting or call up an alum and pitch my case. For now things look good. At least I have managed a summer internship. The internship is in investment banking , this is the second bright point. So I have semi-achieved my first year aims in business school.Having missed out on the on-campus process was pretty disappointing and the off-campus process was quite excruciating. I think I took it a bit easy in the sense that i stuck to a narrow focus. All said and done, the war is still in its early stages and I have to do a lot to win it.

Its amazing how people behave differently when they make a breakthrough. I have seen people suddenly developing preferences they would not have thought about when they were literally begging for an internship. Some interesting comments have amused me over this time and this one takes the cake -" I knew I just needed one interview to crack an internship offer"..

The cheating case in Fuqua leaves one lesson for everyone - "A lot is stake so do not screw up valuable time and money especially if you are an international student". People might have temptation to do something but never leave out the possibility of getting caught and its consequences. Its unfortunate that those people didn't realize this and will not be getting a second chance.

I am working on a project to strategize the development of eastern north carolina and some counties of north carolina. One thing which I realized was that how the migration of upper class to rural US or smaller cities has driven away some of the smaller businesses and lower wage people. I further realized this when today I went to the Queen of Sheba , an authentic Ethopian restaurant and the propertior told us that they are closing for good this month since the establishment will be demolished and a 10 storey building is going to come up. Unfortunately the propertior will not be relocating since she isnt getting similar lease rates. So there goes our option of eating something food close to indian nearby.

As I move to Burlington,MA next month i hope to have interesting experiences to recount.