Account of a new grad's first day! Since one of my friends from Babson recently started work, I asked her to do an interview on her first day to give you all a clue as to what might be in store for you!

"For all of you grads who don’t start until July or August, and are wondering what it might be like…here is how my first day went!"
6:45 am: woke up
7:45 am: left the house
8:30 am: arrived at work, a half hour early.
8:33: reached the penthouse and walked into the office. The receptionist was not there but a fellow employee welcomed me and led me to my desk.My desk was in a conference room, and I was sharing with another new associate. Apparently our furniture was backordered, so we were both set up at a round desk.
8:35: I was led to a conference room where one of the 3 other new associate sat. Introductions followed and we talked until new associates 3 and 4 showed up. Ironically, they turned out to both be from Babson.
9 am: we were given lots of forms to fill out! insurance forms, confidentiality agreements to sign, etc10 am: Analyst welcome session. We were given handbooks and a training guide, found out who our clients are, and met our new bosses.
11 am: the HR rep talked to us about benefits and vacation time, etc.
12 am: Noon meeting with the whole firm, where two clients were discussed.1
pm: lunch in the cafeteria. I brought mine so I was separated from the other analysts who went out to buy. Had an interesting conversation about basketball camp for a colleague’s child.
2 pm: Training on all the applications and reports we will be working on.
3:30pm-6 pm: Exercises on what we learned
6:15: left office
6:45 arrived home
It was an exciting but tiring day!