College vs Grad School

sakky
Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:51:27 +0000

That’s funny, Sakky. I teach finance.



And what I find equally funny is that I teach courses on statistics and econometrics.



I won’t bore you with the fine points of what you did wrong, as I don’t think you are listening and I doubt anyone else here cares.



Interesting - you claim that I am not listening. Is that right? How much have you listened on this thread?



Not from Harvard or MIT, of course, but from another “lesser” school. Of course, she bested a number of Harvard grads in a scholarship competition last fall…



Good for her. But that doesn’t take away from the topic at hand.



As I said before, you suggest courses of action based on outliers, as you acknowledge.



Oh really? Are they truly “outliers”? Throughout this thread, I have simply made the general statement that many (probably most) people with PhD’s eventually end up in careers outside of their field of study, with consulting being just one example (although apparently one that has attracted a great deal of interest here on this thread). Nevertheless, I hardly find it to be a controversial point to state that just because you have a PhD doesn’t mean that you will be always be working as a researcher for the rest of your life. Would anybody, including you newmassdad, claim otherwise? Now, that claim would be strange advice indeed, IMHO.