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Reflections on Mentorship

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My time interning with the CFA Society Chicago has come to an end as of last Friday. As I traveled back to Valparaiso,IN on an hour and a half long ride bus, I thought back to the experiences from this summer. My mind kept coming back to the theme of mentorship. Of course, it is important to expand your knowledge in any topic by communicating with someone that has “been there, done that.” If you read my first blog post, you know that I interviewed numerous CFA Charterholders whom are outperformers in various areas of finance. I noticed a common theme in all of these interviews that I did not expect, mentors. All of these Charterholders mentioned someone that impacted their career decision, inspired them, or advised them in a direction that has lead them to where they are today; passionate about their roles and willing to extend a helping […]

Learning from Outperformers

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I have just completed my sixth week of interning with the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Society Chicago, a non-profit whose goal is to “lead the investment profession by promoting the highest standards of ethics, education, and professional excellence; to shape an investment industry that serves the greater good; and to serve as the premier local resource for Chartered Financial Analyst designees, candidates, other investment professionals and our communities.” As a part of the global CFA Institute, the CFA Society Chicago focuses on providing opportunities to their members for development through all stages of their career and creating a comradery where individuals share opportunities and insight with each other. One earns their CFA designation, the global gold standard in the investment industry, by completing four years of industry experience, and passing a series of three, six hour long exams. These exams focus on basic knowledge of investment tools at the first level, […]

Kick Back, Eat a Spongepop 1 comment

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Last week marked my halfway point with the CAPS program and Lutheran Services in America (LSA). My first month in DC has been, quite simply, a whirlwind. From jazz nights to weekend markets, from baseball games on warm nights to shady lunches by the Capitol, my time here has been moving at an uneven pace, creeping along at some moments but mostly leaping forward in bounds. It’s been exhausting and wonderful. But it wasn’t until this last weekend, when I spent some time away from DC, that I understood what has been making my summer here so special. I spent my holiday weekend in Houston (a city where the Fourth isn’t so much unique and glamorous as it is a slightly bigger show of Texas’ daily patriotism), and as I told my boyfriend story after story about LSA and DC, I realized a truth that applies to most great experiences: […]

Convergence

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  Another painting in our apartment is called Convergence by Jackson Pollock. Pollock, an artist that mastered the technique of splattering paint across a canvas, almost makes viewers dizzy with the array of paint that is dripped, splashed, and sloshed around in this masterpiece. I know that it even feels dizzy making this type of art, as my mother, cousin, and I made some of these types of “drip paintings” as they are called, before I went to high school.   Using simple, monotone, primary colors of white, black, red, yellow, and blue for his palette, Pollock throws the paint at the canvas, creating a “convergence” of vivid, vibrant colors that have been suddenly strewn together into lines that are hair thin, that are thick, and that are every shape and size in between.   With this unique method of assembling paint on a canvas, diversity is created. And as […]

Clocks

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  Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.   Time   You can call it an idiom or you can call it a cliché, but I like to call “Time flies” a pithy adage. The two words, for me, is a truth in transience.   Inception   Four years ago in the summer of 2011, after graduating Valedictorian, Student Council President, and one of the two student speakers at commencement, from Michigan City High School in the spring, and before coming to Valparaiso University as a freshman in the fall, my mother, father, and I took a trip to Washington, D.C.     We stayed at the L’Enfant Plaza Hotel, “A family and pet friendly hotel.” The name of the hotel, comes from a man named Pierre, or “Peter,” L’Enfant, who was an architect and mastermind behind the design of Washington, D.C. It felt fitting, my first time in the District, to stay […]