People in Princeton Finance
From the looks of it, my next two years are going to be a bit more challenging (academically) than I initially thought. I thought I'd be at an advantage because I'm a CS major, but it seems like most of the other people in the program have some sort of engineering or science background. In fact, two even have PhD's. One has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton and another guy has a PhD in Math from UCLA and was actually an Assistant Professor of Math at UCLA for a year before starting this degree.
There a CS major from Carnegie Mellon, another CS major from Cornell, a guy who started a CS PhD program at Johns Hopkins University but decided to quit after the first year. There's a girl from UPENN who double majored in Bioengineering and Econ and minored in Math in 3 years. Another girl double majored in Statistics and Economics from Northwestern in 3 years.
The people who are just Econ majors are from Stanford, UChicago, the London School of Economics, and Oxford... they all finished their degrees in 3 years.
Among this crew, I'm actually slightly deficient in my math skills since I haven't taken a course in Real Analysis. I'm probably going to be taking a course on differential equations this semester but I think I'm going to struggle a bit to refresh my memory of calculus. As revealed by our math refresher course that we're currently going through, I had completely forgotten the mathematical definition of a derivative.
Most of the people in the program are pretty cool and easy to get along with. I've been hanging out with 5 singaporeans, a guy from hong kong and a guy from india. So far I have people to play tennis with, people to play squash with, and somehow I got sucked into a Pilates class. I'm not even 100% sure what Pilates is.
There a CS major from Carnegie Mellon, another CS major from Cornell, a guy who started a CS PhD program at Johns Hopkins University but decided to quit after the first year. There's a girl from UPENN who double majored in Bioengineering and Econ and minored in Math in 3 years. Another girl double majored in Statistics and Economics from Northwestern in 3 years.
The people who are just Econ majors are from Stanford, UChicago, the London School of Economics, and Oxford... they all finished their degrees in 3 years.
Among this crew, I'm actually slightly deficient in my math skills since I haven't taken a course in Real Analysis. I'm probably going to be taking a course on differential equations this semester but I think I'm going to struggle a bit to refresh my memory of calculus. As revealed by our math refresher course that we're currently going through, I had completely forgotten the mathematical definition of a derivative.
Most of the people in the program are pretty cool and easy to get along with. I've been hanging out with 5 singaporeans, a guy from hong kong and a guy from india. So far I have people to play tennis with, people to play squash with, and somehow I got sucked into a Pilates class. I'm not even 100% sure what Pilates is.