Majoring in Business

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My financial advisor was a pre-med who did an MBA after getting her degree in bio or something like that at Mt. Holyoke. So no. We are dissing on undergrad business majors, not people who got an MBA from a decent school.

I did Ph.D. In engineering and full-time MBA Finance major. I know people who did Undergrad Business with Finance major/concentration. So I know the value of MBA as well as that of Undergrad Business. I encourage people who are good at math/quant and not interested in engineering to strongly consider Undergrad Business.

This is my nephew. He is extremely good at CS, and was admitted to several (4.45 UW GPA, 1540 SAT), but wanted to do a business undergrad. He is a sophomore at a well respected business school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No wonder so many parents are pissed off all of the time. They have such disdain for teachers and it shows. I'd love to see parents try to teach.

They are smart enough to NOT teach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No wonder so many parents are pissed off all of the time. They have such disdain for teachers and it shows. I'd love to see parents try to teach.

They are smart enough to NOT teach.

Haha did you see how pissed parents were during virtual learning? They couldn’t control their own kids yet expect teachers to!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No wonder so many parents are pissed off all of the time. They have such disdain for teachers and it shows. I'd love to see parents try to teach.

They are smart enough to NOT teach.

So who will teach the kids when nobody is willing to do it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No wonder so many parents are pissed off all of the time. They have such disdain for teachers and it shows. I'd love to see parents try to teach.

They are smart enough to NOT teach.

So who will teach the kids when nobody is willing to do it?

The national guard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No wonder so many parents are pissed off all of the time. They have such disdain for teachers and it shows. I'd love to see parents try to teach.

They are smart enough to NOT teach.

Haha did you see how pissed parents were during virtual learning? They couldn’t control their own kids yet expect teachers to!

I don't think it was about an inability to control their kids. They were pissed off about having to do their jobs and the teachers' jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No wonder so many parents are pissed off all of the time. They have such disdain for teachers and it shows. I'd love to see parents try to teach.

They are smart enough to NOT teach.

Haha did you see how pissed parents were during virtual learning? They couldn’t control their own kids yet expect teachers to!

I don't think it was about an inability to control their kids. They were pissed off about having to do their jobs and the teachers' jobs.

Lol. Getting your kid on Zoom? Please. My 5 yr old could do it by himself by day 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My financial advisor was a pre-med who did an MBA after getting her degree in bio or something like that at Mt. Holyoke. So no. We are dissing on undergrad business majors, not people who got an MBA from a decent school.

I did Ph.D. In engineering and full-time MBA Finance major. I know people who did Undergrad Business with Finance major/concentration. So I know the value of MBA as well as that of Undergrad Business. I encourage people who are good at math/quant and not interested in engineering to strongly consider Undergrad Business.

This is my nephew. He is extremely good at CS, and was admitted to several (4.45 UW GPA, 1540 SAT), but wanted to do a business undergrad. He is a sophomore at a well respected business school.

What school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My financial advisor was a pre-med who did an MBA after getting her degree in bio or something like that at Mt. Holyoke. So no. We are dissing on undergrad business majors, not people who got an MBA from a decent school.

I did Ph.D. In engineering and full-time MBA Finance major. I know people who did Undergrad Business with Finance major/concentration. So I know the value of MBA as well as that of Undergrad Business. I encourage people who are good at math/quant and not interested in engineering to strongly consider Undergrad Business.

This is my nephew. He is extremely good at CS, and was admitted to several (4.45 UW GPA, 1540 SAT), but wanted to do a business undergrad. He is a sophomore at a well respected business school.

What school?

Kelley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No wonder so many parents are pissed off all of the time. They have such disdain for teachers and it shows. I'd love to see parents try to teach.

They are smart enough to NOT teach.

They are smart enough NOT to teach.

^^^ fixed that for you - you split the infinitive.

Good thing you are not a teacher.

[Anonymous]

Babson College in the Boston suburbs is basically an undergrad business school. It is a top 10 college in terms of starting salaries and mid-career salaries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish more people at my office majored in business rather than history or interpretive dance or whatever so that they could write well. I literally say to myself all-the-time how I wish everyone majored in business.

I loathe receiving multi-paragraph emails that I need a map and highlighter to piece together, like a riddle, the point in 1 sentence or less. My God! I don't care about all the backstory and pointless facts. Longer is not better in business.

In fact, it's so bad at my office, I'm going to start sifting through old emails of certain people, pluck out the 5 words of importance, and keep a running sheet so that I have a reference document nobody else will create, and then I will share it with my team!! It will also be. . . Chronological!!!

History is VERY good for learning how to be a better writer, and leagues better than business in that regard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish more people at my office majored in business rather than history or interpretive dance or whatever so that they could write well. I literally say to myself all-the-time how I wish everyone majored in business.

I loathe receiving multi-paragraph emails that I need a map and highlighter to piece together, like a riddle, the point in 1 sentence or less. My God! I don't care about all the backstory and pointless facts. Longer is not better in business.

In fact, it's so bad at my office, I'm going to start sifting through old emails of certain people, pluck out the 5 words of importance, and keep a running sheet so that I have a reference document nobody else will create, and then I will share it with my team!! It will also be. . . Chronological!!!

History is VERY good for learning how to be a better writer, and leagues better than business in that regard.

That’s nice. Companies do not care.

[Anonymous]

How come we never hear about Thunderbird college any more?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish more people at my office majored in business rather than history or interpretive dance or whatever so that they could write well. I literally say to myself all-the-time how I wish everyone majored in business.

I loathe receiving multi-paragraph emails that I need a map and highlighter to piece together, like a riddle, the point in 1 sentence or less. My God! I don't care about all the backstory and pointless facts. Longer is not better in business.

In fact, it's so bad at my office, I'm going to start sifting through old emails of certain people, pluck out the 5 words of importance, and keep a running sheet so that I have a reference document nobody else will create, and then I will share it with my team!! It will also be. . . Chronological!!!

History is VERY good for learning how to be a better writer, and leagues better than business in that regard.

That’s nice. Companies do not care.

PP was complaining that her colleagues who had majored in things like history didn’t know how to write, and if that company is hiring history majors then they DO care about your writing and other skills.