9:00-9:30 Get into the office.
9:30-11:00 See if full-time analyst or associate that heads your main project team ( Let's call this Project 1) had any comments on the work you submitted the night before (or most likely, earlier in the morning) and work on incorporating the changes in the new version of the latest document.
11:00-12:00 See if any other interns or full-time analysts want to go out and grab a quick lunch to bring back to the office. Use this walking time to catch up with other interns or get to know what the full-time people are working on.
12:00-13:00 Usually a team meeting regarding the presentation deck that you're working on for Project 1. The associate may ask you a few questions about your data analysis, valuation or text. You'd better expected to be prepared to answer all questions, as well as take notes for any follow-up items you'd need to work.
13:00-14:00 A client presentation or phone call on a presentation you worked on earlier in the week( Let's call it Project 2). You get to hear and experience how VP or MD interprets all the hard work you put into the presentation and identifies the main talking and discussion points.
14:00-16:00 Get staffed on the new M&A project (Let's call it Project 3). The full-time analyst would like you to start building a valuation model. You blast out a few email requests to see if anyone in your group has already built someting, put on your earphones and start pulling up various resources to help you with the task (Excel, data resouces, Capital IQ or Bloomberg).
16:00-17:00 Take a short breather from the busy day and get afternoon tea with your mentor or boss to get some informal feed back on your internship process or ask any questions you have about the firm as a whole.
17:00-18:00 The full-time associate is about to head to the gym or run out for dinner so they give you some comments from Project 1. You photocopy the comments( making sure to keep the original), drop off some work with graphics and email data resources for some information. you then email a few other interns from other industry groups to see if they want to order from ordering website, and get together over dinner to discuss their experience in the other groups.
18:00-20:00 Continue working on Project 3 valuation model and Project 1 comments. Project 2 presentation went well, and the client has asked for further analysis. The VP emails you to start putting together a deck for the next week's follow-up meeting.
20:00-22:00 You're stuck on a few things, so before other full-time analysts and associates leave office to start working from here, you grab them to ask some clarifying questions and send out any emails to your team members for help, hoping they'll respond questions before the sleep so you can get everything done and sent out before you leave the office.
22:00-2:00 You effciency has slowed down a bit after a long day, but you finally send out a first draft of the valuation model for Project 3 (carefully laying out your assumptions, indicating this is the preliminary first-draft, and indicating a few follow-up questions to discuss). Then you send the latest presentation deck for Project 1 to the full-time analyst and associate laying out the major changes, and a draft presentation deck for Project 2 to the full-time analyst or associate letting them know that the VP asked you to start putting together a draft for hte follow-up meeting so you took the "first-stab" and ask them for their thoughts.