MFW Diary - Take 1!

Alchemilla

Brilliant news! And you are doing well on MFP.

skint_spice

So come on - details or don't you have any yet? How long do you go for and will you get some time off for a wee holiday while over there?

gallygirl

What's your accommodation like? Will there be room for us ?

Calfuray

SuperSecretSquirrel wrote: »

Congrats on the internship Cal, can't say I'm in the least bit surprised

Aw, thanks Everyone on here is so nice and I don't know what to say. I think if you had heard the interview you would have agreed with me!

Alchemilla wrote: »

Brilliant news! And you are doing well on MFP.

Thanks You too! I went and did it Alchemilla, I am booked in for Zumba tomorrow. Keeking it!

skint_spice wrote: »

So come on - details or don't you have any yet? How long do you go for and will you get some time off for a wee holiday while over there?

Sorry, still waiting on details myself! It is eight weeks, mid June until end of first week in August. Had to email to confirm acceptance today, so will get paperwork and visas and whatnot started very soon. I will keep you updated!
Time for holiday... well we will be working Mon-Fri, so technically we have time for weekend trips! Very close to Orlando, the Bahamas, Cuba.... My friend's been to Orlando/Caribbean a few times so they're going to help me see if I can work in any wee trips

gallygirl wrote: »

What's your accommodation like? Will there be room for us ?

Don't know yet! Paid for though :beer: There are 5/6 of us going to the same company for different internships, so I think we'll be sharing an apartment. They've warned us that we may have to share too :cool:
I'm sure it'll be typically student digs, doubt it's your sort of hotel :rotfl:

edinburgher

I bet you get there and Tilly's the landlady, casting occasional glances to the patio :rotfl:

gallygirl

edinburgher wrote: »

I bet you get there and Tilly's the landlady, casting occasional glances to the patio :rotfl:

The freezer surely :eek:. Remember, it's not a slip of the tongue when she says 'let's throw someone on the barbie' .

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

edinburgher wrote: »

I bet you get there and Tilly's the landlady, casting occasional glances to the patio :rotfl:

gallygirl wrote: »

The freezer surely :eek:. Remember, it's not a slip of the tongue when she says 'let's throw someone on the barbie' .

Cheeky b£ggers :rotfl::rotfl:

Hi Cal, pretty sure the accommodation will be good. If it's anything like ours, we like our interns in the US to see the best of us - we want them to come back :T

Tilly x x

toerag33

De-lurking: Congratulations. Well - Well-deserved. You have worked hard for it. The company are lucky to have you.

Doing catch-up and an absolute joy to read all the nice things that are happening for people here.

toerag33 x

Alchemilla

Zumba sounds fuunnn. How many calories for an hour of that?

Calfuray

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS wrote: »

Cheeky b£ggers :rotfl::rotfl:

Hi Cal, pretty sure the accommodation will be good. If it's anything like ours, we like our interns in the US to see the best of us - we want them to come back :T

Tilly x x

Thanks Tilly It's a bit complex - basically I joined a company who works in Scotland getting prestigious internships all over the world. They convince the companies (who include IBM and the like) to join up to their program by saying they will 'pre-test' the students and leave them with only the good ones.
Hence 1600 applicants -> 500 to interview -> 250 to cover letter stage.
Then once in the 250, you get a list of internships, can apply for up to 3, rank them in preference. Even then, the actual company for the internship hasn't heard of you or seen your cover letter. The intermediate company looks at all the cover letters and the preference you've given the company, then picks the top 3/4 for each internship. THEN (!) your CV, cover letter, application and all details are forwarded to company to look at, they may choose to interview all 3/4 or only interview two, they do interviews and decide.

From there on, if you don't get past interview, you get a second internship list released to you, and a third... etc and start from the cover letter stage each time. Thank goodness I don't have to do that!

Point of that was to say intermediate company organises accommodation so don't know that company will have much say over it!

toerag33 wrote: »

De-lurking: Congratulations. Well - Well-deserved. You have worked hard for it. The company are lucky to have you.

Doing catch-up and an absolute joy to read all the nice things that are happening for people here.

toerag33 x

I love it when you delurk, makes me feel special :smileyhea

Thank you for all your kind words and your silent 'thanks'. You should have a diary too, we want to hear all about your life

x

Alchemilla wrote: »

Zumba sounds fuunnn. How many calories for an hour of that?

Sounds terrifying to me :rotfl: According to MFP 1180 calories per hour, but that sounds a bit high. Will be shattered by time done,
in Uni 9-3 with two meetings, no break for lunch Then home, change, drive to Zumba etc, won't be home before 8.30. Don't know whether to try and squeeze dinner in before of leave to after.

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As a pseudo market research; if you were to have a financial app, what would you want it to do? Track spends, OP calculator... any thoughts?
Thinking of what I would like to do for my dissertation, I'm thinking of a big data, financial system type thing with a web interface/Android app...

Any thoughts would be very helpful! What do you use currently, what things do you wish it had?