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BREAKING: Trailblazing MAE senior chooses career outside of consulting or defense

The facade of a beige building and glass door with the background of a grey sky.
Engineering quadrangle entrance.
Albert Jiang / The Daily Princetonian

The following content is purely satirical and entirely fictional.

Students and faculty in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) were left in shock after a pioneering student boldly accepted a job offer at a non-consulting, non-defense company. Ray Theon ’24 is the first MAE student in 40 years to pursue a career that isn’t involved in the trade of killing people or lining someone else’s pockets.

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“This is virtually unheard of,” said Professor Martin Lockhead, chair of the MAE department. “Most MAE graduates become servants of the lucrative military-industrial complex or sell out to consulting and go to hell. Ray is a truly brave soul to sacrifice his income to uphold his morals.”

The Daily PrintsAnything interviewed Theon after he spurned yet another Bain & Company recruiter. “Not that there’s anything wrong with consulting or defense, but I have always wanted to make the world a better place,” said Theon, as he glared at a student wearing a McKinsey sweater. “It’s really important to me that I work for a company with rigid morals and high standards of quality.”

Theon is excited to begin working at Boeing this summer.

Michael Hwang is a junior in MAE.

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