August 20 is an amazing day. It seems to be even far away from my life even now. However, it did happen and would definitely affect my whole life! I just can’t tell you how excited I was when I went out Mr.Leach’s office in 36th floor of the nationwide headquarters in columbus, ohio. I can’t express how I became relieved when I finally learn a lot of things from Ms.Meg and Ms.Liu. In short, it’s a crazy day!

The most important things that I learned from Mr.Leath are as follows:

• Age dosen’t really matter!
• Be well-prepared when you begin to start the career!
• Tech is the essential base and other skills can learn later!
• Choose the things you are passionate on and just do it. Do not care time too much!
• Find someone you trust that can help you develop your career road!
• Be on different roles in company and gain different skill sets!
• Small company gives big picture but large company teaches you the system!
• Attitude toward the job is important!
• Finance work in high positions are more!

The most fantastic takeaways from the conversation with Ms.Meg and Ms.Liu are as follows:

• Never push in email with officer and teacher!
• After meet, send an email to follow up!
• Maintaining the relationship through asking questions, sending greeting emails in festivals and updating yourself!(Note: once per two month woils be fine)
• The whole point of maintaing a relationship is getting but giving also!
• Attend the events holding by companies earlier and be a observer!
• Keep in touch with the recruiters!

Written by Yi Li(Tom)

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Last week we’ve done a lot of work. Most important things are the trip to spinlife and the information from teachers and students about the clubs and academic.

We need to balance the time between clubs and academic. We now are preparing to set up one by ourselves. Amazing! I will participate in indusry cluster too. And considering the internship or study program when I ask jane. Actually, I now realize that our advisor jane is so important to us, although jane is so kind. So I will contact her more.

About the journey in spinlife. It was so great. I learn that I need a small company’s internship as well as big company’s. I also know the importance of having variots kinda of classes. I realized that my choice of a math minor is great! People in spinlife is so great. It is really an amazing company!

Hot pot with Bob and Eric in this afternoon was amazing!

Things seemed to be all great until I got inti my booked hotel-JFK crown plaza at 1 am in the midnight. I supposed it to be a nice hotel which I could have a relax after 16 hours flight. However, I was shocked. The appearance of the hotel was not like a 5 star hotel. It looked quite so normal outside that even made me feel I was in front of a usual apartment rather than hotel. One thing I should mention is that Chinese 5 start hotel always have a luxirious appearance-modern and fashion. ‘Ok’, I told myself,’just bear for one night is ok.’. Unfortunately, when I got to the lobby to check in, I was totally angry. Since my friend  who booked my room is the vip, my room was supposed to be a suite. But, the staff said there was no suite but only the normal room. After being silent for a while, I beared again. However, the following thing made the situation even worse. My king bed was changed into two qween beds. God, I was alone! I argued with the guy but nothing changed.  In china, I never met this kind of situation. Nonetheless, my friends told me that since I arrived quite late, it is the custom that they gived out my room to others, although I paid. As you can guess, I was shocked again!

10 words pitch-

I’m Tom, business undergraduate in fisher, like hot-pot and stock.

25 words pitch-

I’m Tom, business undergraduate in fisher, like hot-pot and stock. Now, I’m reasearching the cultural intelligence and trying to set up an organization to help international students.

50 words pitch-

I’m Tom, business undergraduate in fisher, majoring in finance. I like hot-pot, badminton and stock. I’m from chengdu, panda’s hometown. Now, I’m researching cultural intelligence and trying to set up an organization to help international students. I’m an easy-going and hard working fat boy. I look forward to your join or help.

5 things that I’m good at-communication/math/badminton/analyze/solve problem

10 things that I like most-movie/music/badminton/communication/physics/chemistry/sunny days/fresh air/shopping/traveling

5 jobs that I prefer most-investor/entrepreneur/scientist/banker/NGO worker

For me, I think there are two aspects of language skills that can bring me huge improvements. First is about the false start. Second is about stress and elongate.

In order to have few false starts, two methods may be useful. To begin with, I can answer a lot of jump questions, which will let me be find my own correct way to start. Also, I should speak at least several minutes a time to figure out whether I have fewer false starts when meeting some stops in thinking while speaking.

To enhance the stress and elongate skills, I should follow the coming steps. Firstly, I should record what I said. Then I should write the words down according to the audio. Moreover, I should mark where I should stress and practice over and over again.

So, I should answer the jump question each day and record them done for practicing. Of course, seeing movies is necessary at least twice a week.

This is my draft plan and wish you all good!

Tom