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MassHysteria
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Aerisky
United States12128 Posts
MassHysteria: noooo docvoc: yeah best of luck to you too :/ dam college u scary :[ targ: this is sort of true, we don't have that many prereqs, but it's definitely very structured with what we take. Race is Terran: definitely not accounting, would like to work in the US, corporate ladder/company-wise I'm not sure. I like the idea of doing ops or being a quant or something. It would be cool to be a pure administrative genius or something like that but I'm probably not lol. tbh I don't much about finance, I just like the idea of understanding money flows, interacting with other people about strategies, and analyzing systems/seeing things nobody else can with money which is so important I guess? <_> Divinek: yeah ideally I would already know, but I have sort-of-kind-of-maybe an idea as to what to do, and I would rather jump straight into things than sit at home unemployed or working a min wage job while doing MOOCs :/ LosingID8: wtf totally uncalled for T.T wait no really? i thought it was only supposed to be ucsd or something ;__; | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21242 Posts
unless you're into nerdy asian boys (i mean, you're on a starcraft forum so i guess theres a high probability ^^) you're pretty out of luck | ||
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Aerisky
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CecilSunkure
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Cam Connor
Canada786 Posts
get good at math too though, especially stochastic calculus | ||
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babylon
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On August 15 2013 13:39 Aerisky wrote: Race is Terran: definitely not accounting, would like to work in the US, corporate ladder/company-wise I'm not sure. I like the idea of doing ops or being a quant or something. It would be cool to be a pure administrative genius or something like that but I'm probably not lol. tbh I don't much about finance, I just like the idea of understanding money flows, interacting with other people about strategies, and analyzing systems/seeing things nobody else can with money which is so important I guess? <_> check out some econ classes, and try not to lose your soul in the process. or you can even try poli sci with an emphasis on quant research (not necessarily just about money, but that's certainly an area you can focus in if you're interested). quant analysis in poli sci is even becoming the "in" thing; if you want to do something with a ba poli sci degree these days, you also need to take some stat and econ classes as well ... experience with coding never hurts also. lots of options.  poke around. | ||
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docvoc
United States5491 Posts
On August 15 2013 14:10 babylon wrote: check out some econ classes, and try not to lose your soul in the process. or you can even try poli sci with an emphasis on quant research (not necessarily just about money, but that's certainly an area you can focus in if you're interested). quant analysis in poli sci is even becoming the "in" thing; if you want to do something with a ba poli sci degree these days, you also need to take some stat and econ classes as well ... experience with coding never hurts also. lots of options. poke around.That coding advice is gold, I need to learn how to code in at least one language also. | ||
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Aerisky
United States12128 Posts
cam: we'll see :O math is hard though, my love for math is completely unrequited (jk probably just haven't put in enough work) babylon: oh wow that's really interesting babylon. Yeah I'm thinking about maybe double majoring or ending up minoring in cs with a major somewhere else, so I def plan on taking some econ courses, or undergrad biz admin stuff. Will definitely poke around | ||
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HeeroFX
United States2704 Posts
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Cam Connor
Canada786 Posts
Also learn c++ and Matlab, c++ from the cs dept and Matlab hopefully from the engineering dept That's If u want quant finance as a masters degree anyway | ||
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Aerisky
United States12128 Posts
cam: THANK YOU VERY MUCH CAM!!! Ah I see interesting, I'll probably have to take like discrete math and stuff like that anyway <_> and ye, I want to learn C then C++, matlab isn't required for me actually but I might learn it anyway I guess :X thanksthanks!! | ||
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Cam Connor
Canada786 Posts
So if you wanted to be a guy coding the trading algorithms you probably wouldn't get enough programming experience doing quant finance, you'd need to do full on cs at the masters level minimum probably | ||
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United States10328 Posts
very hard  I jumped ship to CS like a noob too bad CS requirements suck, so math major it is... but also too bad I spent all my time taking algebraic topology instead of "useful CS classes" at least topology is fun though! | ||
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Aerisky
United States12128 Posts
Ahaha...except you're actually sooooo much better than me at math 343 like you can't believe (but yea the more you know, the more you realize how little you know kinda idea maybe). But I believe in youuu gogogo~ | ||
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3FFA
United States3931 Posts
*doesn't recognize username* *looks at profile for join date* wat + Show Spoiler + I've already learned Obj.C and can recognize basic programming statements and read code from other languages like Java and Python. I don't recognize all of it of course, but just knowing the 1 language helps a lot since I waste less time going 'printf wtf is that?' | ||
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Recognizable
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N.geNuity
United States5111 Posts
On August 15 2013 13:44 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: it's berkeley unless you're into nerdy asian boys (i mean, you're on a starcraft forum so i guess theres a high probability ^^) you're pretty out of luck over/under bet on whether there will be more men with long hair ponytails in CS classes than total women in the same class I'd take over 100% on that one. definitely true in my experience T_T (not CS major, study engineering) | ||
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c0ldfusion
United States8293 Posts
man up, you'll be fine | ||
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Burrfoot
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