Crossroads

Here I am eating the birthday cake I got for my room mate yesterday. Why? Because this has been such a busy week, and I work so much I forget to eat dinner a lot of the time. Trying to juggle work and extracurriculars is much harder this year and I’ve barely made lectures this week and if I have, I’ve fallen asleep during the lectures. Going off point now, so back to the brief story.

They nothing in life is free and that’s probably true. Everything has a cost. Our  ACS was offering us free Nandos meal and as I’m living on a student budget, I’m not going to say no. Plus it gave me a chance to see the 8 other black people in Cambridge. That’s a joke, there are probably like 50 at most. It was being sponsored by a company, XYZ and before you could write your order for Nandos, you had to write down your email address to register on their website. Was I really going to sell my soul to the devil for a Nandos meal? Yes I did, and I was a part of the system now that they had my details. Now these guys are really into investment banking, and they bombarded my email to complete my profile on their website.

I signed up for some CV thing and one thing led to another and now I’m meeting their CEO tomorrow to go over my CV and got invited to an exclusive JP Morgan networking event next week. The real question for me is whether I really want all of this. The truth is I’m not sure. I’ve been told that I need to read up on financial markets and deals and all that crap. Honestly, there’s just so much on my plate right now to focus on that. Investment banking looks so cool to me I mean look at Wolf of Wall Street and Mike Ross. I’ve always liked the idea of being one while completely ignoring the amount of work they have to do to get where they are.

Decisions decisions. Probably all give me ela

Still not sure what area of Engineering I want to specialise in so applying for jobs for next summer has been quite interesting. I think I’ll end up doing electrical not because it’s what I am best at or my favourite but just for the mere fact I’ve always said Elec Elec was my future. The company I worked at last summer was going to be my last resort for jobs for next summer so if I didn’t have a job by June, I would have hit them up asking me to take me back and they said they would say Yes. Plot twist: I got an email from them asking me if I want to come back and work for them. Now I’ve been put on the spot and I have to reply them soon. It’s a bit of a dilemma because I don’t want to shut the door on them completely.

Pensively pencilling my penetration into the Penthouse

Went to the careers fair today and it just added to my confusion and my collection of pens for today. Founded some really interesting companies and some companies just shot themselves in the foot with the people they sent to the fair. Probably decide my future on which company has the nicest pen. . Some were so uninterested. I’m super interested in Utilities, Renewables, Power Generation, Distribution and ManagementAs for me, what will I be doing in the next 5 years could be working with software guys in Silicon Valley, Digital or Analog Electronics, Electrical, Control and Instrumentation, Consultancy, Manufacturing, Management, Patent Law, Investment Banking, Research, Teaching or dropping the hottest album of 2019. Guess variety is really the spice of life or maybe not: having too many options is like  keeping like 10 earphones in one pocket and they all get tangled and taking forever to get the earphone you want from the mess in your pocket. Should have been a rapper.

Coventry Convention

So I was going to write a post about that GoPro sexual harassment video with the theme being “Harassment is in the eyes of the harassed” but that’s probably for another day. Was so busy with work last week, so I could afford to spend a weekend away from Cambs. It was a really amazing weekend but I haven’t bothered checking my bank account so I won’t kill my vibe haha. I’ve lost my voice but it was worth it.

It didn’t start of so great for me if I’m being honest. I bought a train ticket to Warwick which is in Coventry or vice versa instead of one to Coventry it self so I had to refund it and possibly won’t get a refund back and buy a new one. Next up, my train was late at my changeover at Nuneaton, that station is the deadest. The next train was in an hour so I had to cab it from there to Coventry so I could make it in time for ice-skating. Ice skating is the hardest shit ever lmao and there were all these show off purposely moving past me. I fell down 3 times and I took Dara down with me on one of them. It was funny haha but I felt so bad for making her fall. Eventually, got the hang on it but I always an arm’s length away from the walls for support.

The club was alright. It was the first time I had seen Sayo drunk and it was hilarious. Next day was the House party. A little roll call of everyone I remember Laolu, Jeremiah, Majek, Lexy, Nick, Ohammah, Ibro, Zeinab, Ifeoma, Mariam, Adaora, Ifeyinwa, Chidubem, Seun, Tochi, Uwaye, Sayo, Chinasa, Dara, Aruse and all their friends. If I missed your name out don’t cry. House Party was meant to start at 10 but it didn’t pick up till around 1 lmao and it was live. I got curved a couple of times yeah but it was still a great night. Asked for peoples names like 5 times and shit haha. had random convos with people about the most random of shit. I was so gassed to see Ohammah haha, hadn’t seen him since graduation. I was just happy to see everybody man. It was such a fun night. Introducing like peeps from like different circles in my life, like Adaora and Sayo.

The next day we just clowned around throughout especially Maj, Lexy, Nick, Ohammah and I. Just bringing up old stories and messing each other up. That’s the type of fun I don’t think I’ll ever get here but I can live with that. It was an amazing weekend.