<p>I would go for the PhD - as you said, you can start a business with a PhD but you can’t teach. With a PhD, you can do both.</p>
<p>I know a lot of PhDs in business - some started in consulting then got into field they loved.</p>
<p>Starbright, I do not know why you are so convinced that you have identified me as a high school student (which I am not) that you cannot refrain from interfering with my ability to use this forum.</p>
<p>I asked you not to contact me, and I would similarly prefer that you stop posting on this thread. Please leave me alone and stop interfering with any other posters on this site who might be willing to help me out. I have, in fact, contacted the moderators, and hope that they can do something to get you to just let me be.</p>
<p>As for the others here, thank you very much for your thoughtful posting. I apologize if my initial post seemed immature or confusing. I did not want to provide a lot of background information because this is a public forum and my situation is unique enough that it would not be too difficult for someone who knows a bit about the situation to figure out my identity. I am also a non-native speaker (although starbright paid me the compliment of not believing that). I appreciate your help nonetheless, and your patience.</p>
<p>Businessguy – it’s not funny at all. I came here looking for help, and instead was called a liar, made fun of… it’s not funny at all. In fact, it’s really sad.</p>
<p>This forum is full of advice, debate, arguments, and a myriad of opinions and some you will not like (doesn’t usually matter what thread you start, it happens). But as the adult you are, surely you can cope with that. You can start threads, but you can’t own them or dictate how they will go. The threads are for public consumption, not just to, or necessarily, assisting the original poster. </p>
<p>I think it was/is important to point out that, given my particular knowledge, what you have been posting did not make sense on so many levels. On the most simple level, there is no way you have, at this time of year, two outstanding offers of acceptance you’ve not decided upon. </p>
<p>I was truly trying to get more information from you privately, to understand the picture and provide advice, but your excuses about anonymity threats also makes no sense. Many hundreds of PhD students get offers, many thousands of MBA students get offers; and no one in the ‘real world’ of business schools could possibly know you applied to both. Research can readily be described at a very abstract level which would reveal nothing at all about you- if you actually had research exposure you would know this, be able to explain it, and THAT, my friend, would enable people that know something about business school admissions to HELP YOU. No one asked for details, they asked for explanations, of which you are unwilling to provide. </p>
<p>I’m obviously not the only one that gets the impression you are young. You get upset for being judged as being in highschool- who is responsible for that? For what it’s worth, your subsequent expressed emotionality sure isn’t helping to create a more mature personae.</p>
<p>Starbright, why can’t you just leave me alone? This goes beyond expressing an opinion or having a debate. You are attacking my character, calling me immature, claiming that I am lying on this forum. I ask you to please not contact me, and you continue to send me messages. I ask you not to post on this thread, and you won’t stop. It does not improve the quality of the site for you to continue to police it for liars who are not really liars. You have made your point. You think I am in high school. You think it is impossible for what I am saying to be true. Can we just agree to disagree? You can continue thinking whatever you want about me. I will continue to know the truth about myself. And perhaps I can get some help from others who might have something to offer me.</p>
<p>I have no obligation to give more information. You have no obligation to help me or believe me or anything else. Perhaps I am paranoid and it is a foolish fear to not want to post more details here. I do not want to explain how I got these two offers, what my research area is, or any other identifying details, especially to someone who “knows everyone in the business school world” and is so openly hostile to me. Maybe this is foolish. You are entitled to think whatever you want. Okay. Fine. Please just leave me alone.</p>
<p>I respect your knowledge in tis area. I am glad that you have had a wonderful career. But do not use your experiences to hurt others.</p>
<p>Because I get tired of these kind of posts. It wastes people’s time, it insults people’s intelligence (including my own), and no one likes getting lied to. Moreover, the info you provide is completely misleading and false for readers of this forum who are contemplating similar career paths. You didn’t even bothered to do your homework to compose a logical, possible scenario before coming on here with your hypothetical. </p>
<p>You are not telling the truth. Funny how you changed your work experience of a mere internship to read “worked for a couple of years at tech startups” when I privately questioned how you were able to get into a top MBA program on just an internship. I could go on and on-- but you are just making stuff up as you go now. </p>
<p>Who would still have two outstanding acceptances in almost JULY at two very different ‘top school’ programs? And just two months before they start, seeks out anonymous strangers for advice about which career to pursue, despite having supposedly years of personal experience with both careers already? Yet at the same time, doesn’t actually know much about either? And then responds to most posts like they are are years younger than they purport to be?</p>
<p>Your frustrations with other people should not lead you to harass me. If a 1000 people bother you, would you be justified in pulling a gun on number 1001?</p>
<p>If I have posed a foolish question, feel free to explain how I can make a good decision, what factors I should be considering. Please stop attacking me personally. No matter what you have said, I have not attacked you in return. I have not called you juvenile. I have not called you “emotional”. </p>
<p>To answer your implied question – I do have a couple of years with tech startups. I have worked very briefly in the corporate world, and that is how I know that I don’t want to do that kind of work. That is what I expressed to you privately. </p>
<p>I am NOT lying. I don’t know how to convince you of that. I don’t even care, at this point, to convince you of that. As I said, I only want you to leave me in peace. This is getting ridiculous. If I am a liar, wonderful. You have revealed it. The whole world knows. Now please just LEAVE ME ALONE.</p>