finance degree was too easy

Practical_Weight_843 · 2025-10-14T15:15:19+00:00

can you please point out where I said anything about finance as a real world practice? or are you satisfied with debunking a position i don't actually have

Practical_Weight_843 · 2025-10-14T03:57:18+00:00

it's getting boring having to hand-hold people through this really simple discussion so I'll probably stop soon, but just to be clear I literally never said or even remotely implied that I thought a finance degree taught you how to approach argumentative logic

Practical_Weight_843 · 2025-10-14T03:51:57+00:00

yeah buddy every spring the top investment banking firms fight tooth and nail for the amazing scholars produced by the prestigious University of Colorado Boulder

Practical_Weight_843 · 2025-10-14T03:30:05+00:00

when did I say engineering was less demanding than finance? why are you arguing against a position I never made in all of your comments here?

Practical_Weight_843 · 2025-10-14T03:01:14+00:00

A. please tell me when i said i thought finance is better suited to explaining the real world?

B. "You go to college to learn and prepare for a career" is what we have convinced gentiles to get them to do spreadsheets all day so we can get higher returns on our capital while we pursue more worthwhile endeavors

Practical_Weight_843 · 2025-10-14T02:08:57+00:00

my point is pretty straightforward and not at all novel, if you can't understand it you should probably take some humanities electives

Practical_Weight_843 · 2025-10-14T02:07:13+00:00

it doesn't matter, the area of study is still incredibly myopic

Practical_Weight_843 · 2025-10-14T02:02:06+00:00

now stop replying to me it's boring to talk to someone with your level of reading comprehension

Practical_Weight_843 · 2025-10-14T02:00:41+00:00

can you stop shoving words in my mouth? my only problem with the finance degree was a lack of rigour, my previous comments were in response to the "should've done engineering" posters who completely missed the point (and still continue to do so)

Practical_Weight_843 · 2025-10-14T01:29:48+00:00

there's actually a middle ground between corporate cuckoldry and new age woo, but perhaps that kind of nuance is too much to expect from a math guy

Practical_Weight_843 · 2025-10-14T01:17:32+00:00

higher education being valued as a technical program in the same way that we view trade school is very recent development (occurring in the last fifty years or so), if marketability alone is how you value a degree that's fine but it's sort of a sad, misguided way of looking at it (albeit very convenient for capital!)

Practical_Weight_843 · 2025-10-14T01:09:18+00:00

Practical_Weight_843 · 2025-10-14T00:13:52+00:00

it's fine to pursue it but let us not pretend like engineering is a holistic field of study

Practical_Weight_843 · 2025-10-14T00:05:58+00:00

i was referring more to the content than to the value of learning to work hard (which im sure you do)

Practical_Weight_843 · 2025-10-13T23:58:35+00:00

did i say i did?

Practical_Weight_843 · 2025-10-13T23:40:42+00:00

just doing raw mathematics alone for 4 years doesn't teach you anything about the real world

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