<p>Ok, im pretty sure the dude who wrote most of the articles on WikiCU jokes around alot, but this one quote about SEAS - “It is not uncommon for graduates to pursue illustrious mining careers, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Alternatively, investment banking is a popular choice, if mining in the Congo isn’t your thing, with close to a third of all graduating SEAS-ers entering the financial industry.” - kinda freaked me out cause its completely weird. This dude is joking about the mining right (hopefully not about the ibanking 
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<p>There’s a reason no one ever heard from the other two-thirds of SEAS graduates again…</p>
<p>My guess is mining joke has something to do with the fact that SEAS was originally a School of Mines or something. I guess thats what engineering schools were long ago.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure the dudes that admin wikicu are frequent posters on here.</p>
<p>edit: For example, the joke cited in the first post was created by me.</p>
<p>Ha, alrighty then. Also, when i visited seas a while back Alan West told me the same thing about 1/3 of seas kids going into finance. My question is - does that 1/3 statistic regard “finance” and “investment banking” as synonymous, or is finance considered a superset category in which ibanking falls? Thanks.</p>
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<p>both. you’ll hear finance used as both a category and a synonym for i banking, just depends on who you’re talking to and what kind of experience they have in the field. love alan as a person and all but he has little to no experience in said field but he was still probably using it as a category…</p>
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Ha, alrighty then. Also, when i visited seas a while back Alan West told me the same thing about 1/3 of seas kids going into finance. My question is - does that 1/3 statistic regard “finance” and “investment banking” as synonymous, or is finance considered a superset category in which ibanking falls? Thanks.
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<p>I think most people just mix and match the terms when they really mean the broader category, i.e., the financial industry. A number of the SEAS people who go into finance aren’t i-bankers per se; if they want to put their technical/quantitative skills to use, they’ll often end up as traders or back-office programmers.</p>