Kaleb Hemmelgarn ’12 – During my Fall Break, I had the opportunity of a lifetime. Thanks to the generous gifts of Wabash alums, I spent three incredible days in New York City. For a kid who originally grew up in a town of 6,000 people, a city of 8 million was quite a change of pace. Nevertheless, I thoroughly enjoyed the trip and would take it again in a heartbeat. Our schedule was set up with meetings all day and evening Thursday and Friday, and our Saturday was free. While most in the group used the morning to just rest, I decided to explore a little bit of NYC. First, I took the subway across Queens and Manhattan to get to the Liberty Island ferry, which is the ferry used to visit the Statue of Liberty. I was hoping to go up into the statue, but once I got to the island, I found that there was a three-hour wait to go up into the statue. I decided that I would rather do something else, so I headed back to the mainland part of Manhattan and visited Times Square. 

I cannot express enough thanks to the Allen family and other alumni who generously donated money to make this trip possible. I now understand why kids who come from Chicago or New York are so bored when they get to Crawfordsville. In NYC, there is constant action, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I would highly recommend this trip to anyone at Wabash. It gives you a great taste of big city life, as well experiences that will stick with you the rest of your life. Lastly, a big thanks needs to be given to Scott Crawford, Betsy Knott, and all of Career Services.  They did a fantastic job overseeing and setting up this trip to NYC.         

Haoyuan (Nick) Su ’12 – After two days’ busy schedule, we had a Saturday morning to explore the Big Apple on our own. Some fellows chose to walk around downtown, some chose to try to see the Statue of Liberty, and some just chose to stay at hotel and relax. I went to Chinatown to visit a friend, a former analyst of Lehman Brothers. It was a good time. We talked a lot about the career of investment banking and life. Then he gave me a tour of Chinatown and Little Italy. Chinatown is really big and it is more alike to Hong Kong than mainland China. Little Italy is like the real Italy and reminds me of the movie, the Godfather. At last, we flew back to Indy in the afternoon. Personally I learned so much about the financial industry from alumni in this trip, but it’s time to head back to face the real life at Crawfordsville first and to study hard for my future.