<p>Great. alwaysamom made me fell all bad about myself. I am tempted insult her in my defense but my mom brought me up better than that and I truly respect my elders. However, that doesn’t mean that I can’t voice my own independent opinon.</p>
<p>Employers are companies. Companies are made of people. People are ignorant. I know this is scary but this is the reality. Even more scary is that company hiring is run out of HR and HR is generally even more ignorant than regular people. For the most part, HR is the bureaucratic scum of the a corporation whose only purpose is to question my business trip to Europe or to pester me about my self-evaluation form. Little do they know, my business trip to Europe brought in $8.5 mm in fees and allowed them to keep their job and put food on the table.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, things like brand name, image, reputation and pedigree are more important than quality of education and what you actually learn in school. I work in finance and work with morons. They are ivey league morons but morons nonetheless. Wall street firms go to these ivey league schools and hire the 67th ranked guy from Yale but guess what, he’s a moron too. How about that guy that sits beside me from Harvard? Also a moron. What about Mr. Stanford across the hall? Actually, not so much of a moron but a complete social outcast and couldn’t get a date if he paid for it (trust me, he’s tried). </p>
<p>I know what your thinking, getting a job should not be a concern (especially in your freshman year). Well, as much as would love to be some idealistic hippie trying not to sell out to the “man”, it’s nice to be able to pay the bills and buy that Mercedes Benz SLK55 AMG Roadster that I’ve had my eye on.</p>
<p>Frankly, you will use about 1% of what you learn in school on your job. I don’t want to discourage you because school is about being educated and not necessarily about what you learn. Although I rarely use multi-variable calculus on the job, it teaches you how to think and solve problems. I did enjoy my history. However, more importantly, it’s about how much you party. Getting a 3.95 GPA (that’s what I got) is pretty meaningless given that it’s not like I look back on my senior year and say to all my friends, “Dude, remember that time I aced that accounting exam…I really showed that professor.” No. I say, “Dude, remember when we did the century club and hooked up with those random girls on the dance floor.”</p>