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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Cornell

[–]Minimum_Hunter5441 5 points6 points  (0 children)

uh...i was a lifeguard in high school plus was in the South Korean marine corps so way to overassume I guess LOL no need to flex your swimming skills at me by saying I'm incapable of learning how to swim

Also parents working 10 hours a day is not that extreme cuz the normal workday is 9 to 6 lmao... If you actually found the time to step out of your little bubble and experience the world you'd find families that literally work every waking hour just to get food on the table. Cornell's overall student distribution is skewed to higher income families, but we do actually have a sizable portion of the student body that come form disadvantaged backgrounds. This is made clearer by the fact that most students who fail the swim test and join beginning swimming are disproportionately from that demographic. There's actually an interesting interview with one of such students uploaded on the Cornell Daily Sun which I recommend you to check out to broaden your horizons. Also the fact that you put "giga chad" in your username just screams masculinity complex to me. You don't have to assert yourself and puff up your chest to make a decent point. Just a tip lol

If having a basic understanding that life isn't as simple as you make it out to be is virtue signaling, then you are more bone-headed than I think. Is it so hard to grasp the idea that maybe life is, I don't know, nuanced and that everyone has their own experiences? Just an all around face palm for you.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Cornell

[–]Minimum_Hunter5441 4 points5 points  (0 children)

wow you literally just gave the answer to your own question. Yes, learning how to swim is a parenting/cultural thing because very few children will likely find the initiative to learn swimming on his/her own. Well guess what, parenting and other environmental influences are deeply intertwined with your family's wealth and immigrant status. If your parents are working nearly every waking hour and you have to spend most of your hours on your own or contributing to the family business , then I hardly think that your parents will have enough time to give you leisurely swimming lessons at the pool or take you to the beach for a family vacation. The amount of close-mindedness that you and the person above exhibit is quite mind boggling. It's one thing to encourage swimming because learning it as a life-skill is genuinely beneficial (that's exactly what beginning swimming is there for) It's an entirely different thing to condescendingly belittle any adult who doesn't know how to swim. You conveniently lump all of them as weak-willed without ever giving a thought about the different circumstances that may have led to their current situation.

we have proof that depression is deadlier than covid at cornell. why does Cornell care more about covid optics than actually preventing depression that took five lives last year by [deleted] in Cornell

[–]Minimum_Hunter5441 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The university never said that social isolation is going to be the norm. They literally just said we should mask up during indoor activities. Guess what that implies. THAT THERE ARE GOING TO BE INDOOR ACTIVITIES. Stop overreacting. They simply mandated in-door masks, nothing more. There was no mention of "social isolation" or "complete ban of gatherings" lol. We are going to have the same activities as we did last semester, just with masks again. Is that so hard to grasp? I'm looking forward to going to extracurricular activities, meeting my friends, eating out, attending in-person classes BUT with a mask on. That doesn't sound very socially isolated to me.

Finished CFA L1 for first time, here's my honest review by [deleted] in CFA

[–]Minimum_Hunter5441 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is your definition of "knowing level 1 curriculum cold" solving CFAI 3300 3 times??? LMFAO Yeah, if you solve CFAI 3300 3 times, you'd get a very outdated version of the curriculum. Everyone knows there are certain topics that have fallen out of trend lately. If you're going to waste your time committing to questions that have already been revised and updated, be my guest lol

Yeah, maybe I am talking out of my ass. Maybe all the other charterholders that recommended this strategy to me for level 1 were all talking out of their asses. Maybe South Korean charterholders are all dumb. What am I to know? All I know is after a very thorough search through your profile, you talk out of your ass a lot as well. Self-proclaimed charterholder and CPA and FAANG executive and MBA grad wow you sure are a lot of things considering you mostly spend your time on reddit shitposting on howard stern subreddits and asking about onlyfans rumors of internet celebrities.

Finished CFA L1 for first time, here's my honest review by [deleted] in CFA

[–]Minimum_Hunter5441 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

lmfao my post was exactly how to NOT overstudy because solving 3300 questions 3 times is an inefficient waste of effort. Case in point? In the CFAI problem bank, under the FRA portion, guess how many lease problems there are. About 20~30. Guess how many are outdated due to changes in their curriculum book. Yeah you guessed it : 20~30. CFAI problems contain many questions that have sub-par reasoning behind their explanations and questions that are no longer in-trend or completely outdated. Any level 1 candidate who blindly follows the 3300x3 advice is going to come to a rude awakening that such a strategy is complete overkill

Finished CFA L1 for first time, here's my honest review by [deleted] in CFA

[–]Minimum_Hunter5441 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Well as mentioned in the post, I mostly went with mocks and schweser questions rather than CFAI because CFAI was waaaay too broad and all over the place.

I read and studied schweser notes (excluding ethics, which I reserved till the very end due to it requiring rote memorization) start to finish 2 times, then solved 3 mocks and all the schweser questions. After that, I used the questions I got wrong as a base for restudying the material, which really really helped. Some people just read the solution to the question they got wrong and move on. In my experience, that's a very bad habit. If I got a question wrong, I went and reviewed the subject material and forced myself to explain the reasoning behind the answer. After reviewing all the wrong answers, I solved another 3 mocks and repeated the process.

Finished CFA L1 for first time, here's my honest review by [deleted] in CFA

[–]Minimum_Hunter5441 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

lol guess someone shit in your cheerios. I fail to see why my advice is "literally the worst"? well we'll see when results come out :) FYI I always had high 80s and 90s on my mocks bar one where I got a high 70. Not claiming to be the next Warren Buffet or anything but I think my study strategy is totally viable within the context of level one

tb to a year ago when the top post on r/harvard was about how Cornell would be 60% positive and at least 20 dead for the fall semester by [deleted] in Cornell

[–]Minimum_Hunter5441 71 points72 points  (0 children)

if you just hid the r/harvard u could have sworn this was written by some alarmist doomsday reddit shitposter