Why did you choose Quantitative Finance?
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Because I love numbers and games (and I don't just mean the video kind), and because the idea of being able to be a sole breadwinner for my future wife and kids is too good to pass up.
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Powerball's up to $160million...
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yea but i like to pursue something will give me a better chance. powerball u must be really lucky to win that. and for somereason, in the past, its only couples that end up winning. and those who won end up filing for bankruptcy years down the line.
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Yes, but they were going about it all wrong. I read in the paper last year about a guy who won the lottery, spent all of the money and then won again! ... and then he spent all that money... and won AGAIN. How cool is that?
He finally retired and move to Florida.
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I suspect what you put in your application was drastically different but it's good that you eventually come clean
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In addition to an interest in the markets, I enjoy math, and want to be able use it for practical applications.
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"I wanted to be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed kill"
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I realize that there may be professionals and academics of future prospective employers/academic institutions trolling these forums and I would like to say, quite honestly, that this is not about the money for me. It is about my love of mathematics and the financial markets, as well as an undying commitment to serving the community by finding an efficient allocation of capital in the economy. Additionally, I want to provide liquidity as best I can to help my fellow financial engineers and contribute to the academic debate on college campuses.
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All due respect, what's keeping you from pursuing your "true passion" now? Or are you hoping to pull a Kronecker?
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I'm here hoping to get money out of my interest in energy, which is the bulk of my profile, but I'm not entering any rat race while doing things at my pace and pleasure
finance is the same as poetry: nobody says it's for the money and nobody says it's for immortality... being an oldie compared to many here, allow me to say that some kind of desperation is needed to pursue both
finance is the same as poetry: nobody says it's for the money and nobody says it's for immortality... being an oldie compared to many here, allow me to say that some kind of desperation is needed to pursue both
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Well, many of my physicist friends after completing their phd now works in finance. I'm disgusted by that but hey, physics doesn't pay much. So, I'm doing the opposite.
And this does not mean that I do not like the financial world. Au contraire, I actually opened my 1st bank at the age of 7 and made enough money so by the age of 12, I paid my own airplane ticket costs to move from N-Africa to N-America.
Well, many of my physicist friends after completing their phd now works in finance. I'm disgusted by that but hey, physics doesn't pay much. So, I'm doing the opposite.
And this does not mean that I do not like the financial world. Au contraire, I actually opened my 1st bank at the age of 7 and made enough money so by the age of 12, I paid my own airplane ticket costs to move from N-Africa to N-America.
I like your outlook, but I hope you gave your depositors their money back first before skipping the country. Otherwise that is called embezzlement...and embezzlement is bad.
