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Corporate Finance Intern (In Hollywood) This past summer, I worked at Universal studios with their film division as a finance intern on their global licensing team . The global licensing team was in charge of keeping track of all the movie revenue from licensing. Licensing is when movie studios allow companies to make products using their intellectual property for example Jurassic park toys, or Fast and Furious t-shirts . This internship was a fun experience where I learned about the movie industry and gained a lot of practical finance skills . Yet, I would not recommend this internship to people who don’t like due dates, large projects, or figuring out things on their own . Throughout my three-month experience, my job was to be a copy machine, a Labrador Retriever, and excel wizard all at the same time . To make it harder I was dealing with super large files on a five-year-old laptop that would crash all the time. Throughout this internship I felt like I was a circus performer jugglin...

Describe where you come from    Where I come from will always be Hong Kong, I may not share the same culture as the majority of the population but I will always consider it where I come from and where home is. Tell me where you're going    I honestly don't know where I'm going. I have a plan and an idea of where I would like to be and what I would like to do but I do not know where I'm going. I tend to believe that if I worry about today and the present the future will take care of itself.      "Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, but Today is a gift."  - Master Oogway Tell me how you plan to get there    For me, I'm a bigger fan of visualization and preparation than planning on how to get somewhere. I think being prepared and open to opportunities has helped me be successful more in life. I don't think following one original plan has enabled me to get where I am currently.     "Everybody has a plan until they get...