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E-PrinceOn a Wednesday morning last month, Sean Pi ’12 ran breathlessly into his 10 a.m. French class dressed in a suit and tie, carrying a suitcase and his French books. Just five minutes earlier, he had paid a cab ...
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"'It’s hard to word this correctly,' he said. 'I’m truly interested in the area. And I really enjoy the work that investment bankers do.'" Yeah, you really enjoy that "bitchwork," don't you?
I am sickened by such tales of wasteful spending and false pretenses.
The spurious earning of capital from capital degrades the soul and destroys the State (see Aristotle). Only a deviant capitalist would spend 300 dollars to pretend that he had some intellectual pursuit in addition to his immoderate desire for wealth. At least ORFE majors have no such pretenses unlike those unseemly traders/traitors in the Woodrow Wilson School. Do you think that your investment banking profits the State when you earn money in the absence of property? You are just forming an international cabal while you fill the land with deceitful and hostile citizens.
Abolish the ORFE concentration and all finance related certificates.
Dear Daily Princetonian:
Please stop glorifying the most disgusting of all professions. Do you have any idea what investment banking has done to this country? Do you have any idea the discrimination minorities and women face at investment banks? This is honestly sickening.
@ anonymous
you are an idiot if you think this article is glorifying the profession.
A much more interesting article would have been to interview the countless humanities students struggling to get any job at all, much less ibanking and consulting. I'm pretty sure most students already know what is involved with those two careers, and if they don't already, they will be senior year just from hearing their peers talk about it. There are SO many different careers out there. Please write some articles about the less stereotypical Princeton career paths. It will make for more interesting and informative reading.
I actually did find this very interesting, mostly because I think the responses of the interviewed students is so telling of the kinds of people these professions attract.
wow totally worthless article...so big woop the Pi kid has lots of money to fly all over the country for interviews and pay 300bucks for a cab ride...some of us don't even have the financial resources to go home over breaks.
all the kids who came to princeton and go into the finance sector are a waste of a $160000 education. how about an article about the kids who actually came to this school to learn and make something of themselves rather than to use the princeton name to make a quick buck. these kids disgust me. half of these people only get these internships cuz their rich families set them up freshmen year with big time internships that give them experience, the rest of us on the other hand actually have to work our tails off to even get an interview let alone 18.
have some dignity Princetonian, don't push elitist trash like this in your paper.
I predict this article will end up on Ivygate.
Sean Pi: You didn't have a summer? that sounds totally awesome! where do i sign up???
actually most of the ORFE people I know don't have that much money and that is why they are doing it. Still tools, but not wealthy tools yet.
Actually, a greater proportion of lower-income students do "practical" majors like econ/orfe/engineering than higher-income students do (not correcting for any differences in ability between the two groups). Not saying connections don't play a role, but something to keep in mind while you bash these kids.
Also, in the long run investment banking and other financial services have done a lot of good for this country and for the world. Though the job/life sounds pretty shitty to me.