The Road to Wall Street

As many of you know I am pursuing a job on Wall Street. So far I have applied for over 150 positions and have received little feedback in the form of rejection letters. Hiring season for 2012 analyst started August 1st 2011 and I have been applying to these positions which will start in the summer of 2012. My resume has greatly improved since last year and will increase my chances of landing a job on Wall Street. Along with job applications, I am working on graduate applications for a masters in financial engineering which entails taking the GRE, writing a few statements of purpose, some interview videos, and collecting recommendation letters. I am currently studying for the GRE so that I can get high enough scores for the specific programs that I am applying for. For those of you who don't know what the GRE is, it is the Graduate Record Examination which consists of a verbal section, quantitative section, a research section, an unscored section, and two essays which must be done in 30 minutes or less for each essay. The entire exam takes about 3 hours and 45 minutes.

So far the road to Wall Street has been difficult but that is what makes a Wall Street job so rewarding.

WSU Graduation

I know it is almost three months past our graduation from college but I thought I would post some pictures. Arielle will officially be done with college July 29th since she is finishing an online class but she did walk with me at the Spring 2011 commencement. Graduation was bitter sweet for me since I was excited to finally graduate but was bitter since I didn't have a job lined up and still don't. If I am unemployed for a year or two I will most likely go back to school for a PhD in financial engineering.

Arielle graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology and a French and Psychology minor. I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with a Finance major and an Economic minor. Arielle's brother Nick also graduated the week after from UNLV and is in the picture below.

Both of our families came down to Pullman for the graduation. I made Pizza, Arielle made WSU cupcakes, and some family brought fruits and vegetables.

Our after graduation plans are for us to move to New York as soon as I can find a job in NYC and Arielle will look for a baking job once we move there.

Arielle's 22nd Birthday Cake

I made a chocolate cake for Arielle's 22nd birthday. I got the cake recipes from Food Network but I came up with the filling, frosting, and sauce on my own. The filling between the two layers is a raspberry filling.

 

 The frosting is a chocolate ganache. I attempted to make a white chocolate ganache to marble with the chocolate ganache but the white ganache turned out too liquid so I used at as a sauce to drizzle over the cake. Overall it came out great and was the best cake I have made so far. Arielle's parents and mine both really enjoyed it as well.

Snow, Snow, and more Snow

It snowed all day on February 28th and now we have over a foot of snow.

WSU didn't cancel class even though the buses weren't running until 8am. I walked a mile to the gym on the night of the 28th and nothing had been shoveled off. These pictures are of our apartment complex the morning of March 1st.

Fresh Pair of Custom Kicks

I got some Nike gift cards for Christmas so I could buy some new shoes. I designed these NikeIDs. They have my name on them.

They are great for running!

Lentil Festival 2010

Arielle and I went to the Lentil Festival in Pullman. It was exciting for Pullman.

 Here is the chili that they serve for free. I had two cups and half of Arielle's. The picture below shows the giant stainless steel pot that it is made in.

Arielle and Tase T. Lentil.

Me and Tase T. Lentil.

Food from 2010

During 2010 I made some pretty good food such as Bonet (chocolate custard with caramel sauce or raspberry sauce), Italian Easter pie, lamp chops, arugula salad, and fennel pasta. Here some photos of other foods I made...

 Chocolate pancake with chocolate chips and a peach on top. Later in the year I made them again but added white chocolate chunks.

 Poblano burger from Cooking Light magazine. A beef patty mixed with roasted poblanos and topped with picked reb onions and a sour cream chipotle spread.

 Lentil chili that I made after I got the recipe from the Lentile Festival in Pullman, WA.

A standard flan. I am a big fan of custards.