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Will you freakin’ science and engineer types please shove your “People who excel in math become scientists and engineers; the people who can’t handle math get on the short bus to B-school” stereotypes where the sun don’t shine?! Admittedly, it’s been a very long time, but I can recall having some fairly stringent math adventures in some of my more advanced finance, econ, and statistics courses (fortunately, electroshock therapy has erased the nightmare memories of those happy times). And calculus was required.
The thing is — the finance guys have only started doing real math in the last 20 years or so. The math behind Black-Sholes — which won the freakin’ nobel prize — has been textbook fluid dynamics since the 1930’s.
Don’t get me wrong– now that Wall Street owns the whole country– they also have people who can do real math. That simply wasn’t the case for many, many years.
maybeParticipantWill you freakin’ science and engineer types please shove your “People who excel in math become scientists and engineers; the people who can’t handle math get on the short bus to B-school” stereotypes where the sun don’t shine?! Admittedly, it’s been a very long time, but I can recall having some fairly stringent math adventures in some of my more advanced finance, econ, and statistics courses (fortunately, electroshock therapy has erased the nightmare memories of those happy times). And calculus was required.
The thing is — the finance guys have only started doing real math in the last 20 years or so. The math behind Black-Sholes — which won the freakin’ nobel prize — has been textbook fluid dynamics since the 1930’s.
Don’t get me wrong– now that Wall Street owns the whole country– they also have people who can do real math. That simply wasn’t the case for many, many years.
maybeParticipantWill you freakin’ science and engineer types please shove your “People who excel in math become scientists and engineers; the people who can’t handle math get on the short bus to B-school” stereotypes where the sun don’t shine?! Admittedly, it’s been a very long time, but I can recall having some fairly stringent math adventures in some of my more advanced finance, econ, and statistics courses (fortunately, electroshock therapy has erased the nightmare memories of those happy times). And calculus was required.
The thing is — the finance guys have only started doing real math in the last 20 years or so. The math behind Black-Sholes — which won the freakin’ nobel prize — has been textbook fluid dynamics since the 1930’s.
Don’t get me wrong– now that Wall Street owns the whole country– they also have people who can do real math. That simply wasn’t the case for many, many years.
maybeParticipantWill you freakin’ science and engineer types please shove your “People who excel in math become scientists and engineers; the people who can’t handle math get on the short bus to B-school” stereotypes where the sun don’t shine?! Admittedly, it’s been a very long time, but I can recall having some fairly stringent math adventures in some of my more advanced finance, econ, and statistics courses (fortunately, electroshock therapy has erased the nightmare memories of those happy times). And calculus was required.
The thing is — the finance guys have only started doing real math in the last 20 years or so. The math behind Black-Sholes — which won the freakin’ nobel prize — has been textbook fluid dynamics since the 1930’s.
Don’t get me wrong– now that Wall Street owns the whole country– they also have people who can do real math. That simply wasn’t the case for many, many years.
maybeParticipantThere’s some good input already on these threads. Here’s a couple of thoughts:
Electrical Eng: It is hard to go wrong with EE. They are always in demand, but it may be a little too abstract for a kid who likes to touch things. Math is life and death in this field– if you can’t do it, you die.
Petroleum Eng: steady demand, well-paid work, and very applied field of study. If you want to study it, though, I’d recommend finding a school in Texas. A petroleum engineer from UT is in much greater demand by the oil industry than any scientist/engineer from Harvard.
Chem. Eng: also steady high demand, but also very math-driven.
Aerospace Eng: demand comes and goes depending on how much money gov’t wants to spend on the military. Plus– the salaries tend to be a little low since there are people who would work for free designing planes. I’d stay away from the field if I were young and wanted job stability.
Civil Eng: low demand unless/until you become a professional engineer. However, the math is relatively easy.
Mechanical Eng: Steady demand, but the hands-on people in this field (e.g., design engineers) get paid relatively low.
Bioeng/ Biomedical Eng: May have changed over the last 20 years, but it used to be that there was not a lot you could do with an undergrad BioEng degree other than go to grad school or go to medical school. May have changed, but I’d still be cautious.
maybeParticipantThere’s some good input already on these threads. Here’s a couple of thoughts:
Electrical Eng: It is hard to go wrong with EE. They are always in demand, but it may be a little too abstract for a kid who likes to touch things. Math is life and death in this field– if you can’t do it, you die.
Petroleum Eng: steady demand, well-paid work, and very applied field of study. If you want to study it, though, I’d recommend finding a school in Texas. A petroleum engineer from UT is in much greater demand by the oil industry than any scientist/engineer from Harvard.
Chem. Eng: also steady high demand, but also very math-driven.
Aerospace Eng: demand comes and goes depending on how much money gov’t wants to spend on the military. Plus– the salaries tend to be a little low since there are people who would work for free designing planes. I’d stay away from the field if I were young and wanted job stability.
Civil Eng: low demand unless/until you become a professional engineer. However, the math is relatively easy.
Mechanical Eng: Steady demand, but the hands-on people in this field (e.g., design engineers) get paid relatively low.
Bioeng/ Biomedical Eng: May have changed over the last 20 years, but it used to be that there was not a lot you could do with an undergrad BioEng degree other than go to grad school or go to medical school. May have changed, but I’d still be cautious.
maybeParticipantThere’s some good input already on these threads. Here’s a couple of thoughts:
Electrical Eng: It is hard to go wrong with EE. They are always in demand, but it may be a little too abstract for a kid who likes to touch things. Math is life and death in this field– if you can’t do it, you die.
Petroleum Eng: steady demand, well-paid work, and very applied field of study. If you want to study it, though, I’d recommend finding a school in Texas. A petroleum engineer from UT is in much greater demand by the oil industry than any scientist/engineer from Harvard.
Chem. Eng: also steady high demand, but also very math-driven.
Aerospace Eng: demand comes and goes depending on how much money gov’t wants to spend on the military. Plus– the salaries tend to be a little low since there are people who would work for free designing planes. I’d stay away from the field if I were young and wanted job stability.
Civil Eng: low demand unless/until you become a professional engineer. However, the math is relatively easy.
Mechanical Eng: Steady demand, but the hands-on people in this field (e.g., design engineers) get paid relatively low.
Bioeng/ Biomedical Eng: May have changed over the last 20 years, but it used to be that there was not a lot you could do with an undergrad BioEng degree other than go to grad school or go to medical school. May have changed, but I’d still be cautious.
maybeParticipantThere’s some good input already on these threads. Here’s a couple of thoughts:
Electrical Eng: It is hard to go wrong with EE. They are always in demand, but it may be a little too abstract for a kid who likes to touch things. Math is life and death in this field– if you can’t do it, you die.
Petroleum Eng: steady demand, well-paid work, and very applied field of study. If you want to study it, though, I’d recommend finding a school in Texas. A petroleum engineer from UT is in much greater demand by the oil industry than any scientist/engineer from Harvard.
Chem. Eng: also steady high demand, but also very math-driven.
Aerospace Eng: demand comes and goes depending on how much money gov’t wants to spend on the military. Plus– the salaries tend to be a little low since there are people who would work for free designing planes. I’d stay away from the field if I were young and wanted job stability.
Civil Eng: low demand unless/until you become a professional engineer. However, the math is relatively easy.
Mechanical Eng: Steady demand, but the hands-on people in this field (e.g., design engineers) get paid relatively low.
Bioeng/ Biomedical Eng: May have changed over the last 20 years, but it used to be that there was not a lot you could do with an undergrad BioEng degree other than go to grad school or go to medical school. May have changed, but I’d still be cautious.
maybeParticipantThere’s some good input already on these threads. Here’s a couple of thoughts:
Electrical Eng: It is hard to go wrong with EE. They are always in demand, but it may be a little too abstract for a kid who likes to touch things. Math is life and death in this field– if you can’t do it, you die.
Petroleum Eng: steady demand, well-paid work, and very applied field of study. If you want to study it, though, I’d recommend finding a school in Texas. A petroleum engineer from UT is in much greater demand by the oil industry than any scientist/engineer from Harvard.
Chem. Eng: also steady high demand, but also very math-driven.
Aerospace Eng: demand comes and goes depending on how much money gov’t wants to spend on the military. Plus– the salaries tend to be a little low since there are people who would work for free designing planes. I’d stay away from the field if I were young and wanted job stability.
Civil Eng: low demand unless/until you become a professional engineer. However, the math is relatively easy.
Mechanical Eng: Steady demand, but the hands-on people in this field (e.g., design engineers) get paid relatively low.
Bioeng/ Biomedical Eng: May have changed over the last 20 years, but it used to be that there was not a lot you could do with an undergrad BioEng degree other than go to grad school or go to medical school. May have changed, but I’d still be cautious.
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Five different bunkbeds and a futon???
They had six people living here and still couldn’t make the payment?
maybeParticipanthttp://www.sdlookup.com/MLS-090030868-1333_8th_Ave_602_San_Diego_CA_92101
Five different bunkbeds and a futon???
They had six people living here and still couldn’t make the payment?
maybeParticipanthttp://www.sdlookup.com/MLS-090030868-1333_8th_Ave_602_San_Diego_CA_92101
Five different bunkbeds and a futon???
They had six people living here and still couldn’t make the payment?
maybeParticipanthttp://www.sdlookup.com/MLS-090030868-1333_8th_Ave_602_San_Diego_CA_92101
Five different bunkbeds and a futon???
They had six people living here and still couldn’t make the payment?
maybeParticipanthttp://www.sdlookup.com/MLS-090030868-1333_8th_Ave_602_San_Diego_CA_92101
Five different bunkbeds and a futon???
They had six people living here and still couldn’t make the payment?
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