Finance is useless on the undergrad level?

Lil_Wayne_Fan
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:32:59 +0000

One person said it’s not worth the degree. You’ve taken the word of one person as canon. You’re about as easily manipulated as most six year olds.

Have you considered not spending money on college at all and just starting work at McDonalds right now? If you can’t parse information I can’t see how a degree would give you anything but debt, as you’ll undoubtedly fail when you’re in the professional world and you have to make your own conscious decisions. You’re probably better off throwing all that money your dad is going to spend on BC for you into a well-diversified portfolio and just working some menial jobs for a while.

Change of plans

I’m going to Penn State’s Smeal Biz school to major in actuarial science

Gonna be an actuary instead - I think it’s more interesting, I love math, I wouldn’t need to go to grad school, and they get paid almost as much as doctors down the road

Plus, majoring in finance right now might not be the smartest thing to do, for economic reasons

BC is too expensive - PSU is 32k a year - saving us 80k+ over 4 years

Being an actuary is the way to go