What is going on? have people lost their minds?

OldMoney
Sun, 13 May 2012 20:01:58 +0000

@WongTongTong I think you’re hanging out with the wrong crowd. Of course, the main goal of premeds is a top medical school, so they’ll tend to only care about what’s tested in their classes and the MCAT. As for engineers, it’s a top job at Google/Microsoft/top tech company. If you really want to find more people with intellectual curiosity, you need to find students who are striving to get their Phds and eventually become a professor. Those are the guys who are smart AND intellectually motivated to the point where they are willing to devote their lives to research and studying the subject. They are the ones who will be wanting to learn everything there is to know about their concentrations and seek out advice even after classes on material outside what they’re learning.

Also, I couldn’t help but chuckle as you said Wharton is a school you’re looking at. Those guys are all cutthroat competitors whose ultimate goal is the brain drain called Wall Street. For most of them, the sole goal in life is money and fame, so I really don’t know how you would think you would find intellectually curious people in Wharton, although there probably are a few.