<p>Or maybe Fuld put the wrong man in the wrong position? The fact of the matter is that Fuld was the leader of Lehman and he has the final say.</p>
<p>I like your spunk MonkeySee, but in this case, give up! Fight the substantive misreads, not the hate mail.</p>
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USC students have huge chips on their shoulders. *They, probably more than anybody else, really make a big deal of the US News rankings (b/c USC is "top 30") * and genuinely seem to seek validation from that magazine's rankings. It's pathetic, hilarious, and annoying.
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<p>See the thread in UCLA forum about ranking, nuff said</p>
<p>"I'd like to give the UI accountants a try. They could not do worse than what we have had the last 20 years. Raw brainpower is important in rocket science. Business is not rocket science."</p>
<p>Your ignorance is astounding.</p>
<p>Oh please. I have worked for major firms for many years. Most top business people I have met such as Trammell Crow or Gerald Hines or read about like Warren Buffett are bright guys who like to keep things simple and focus more on execution and hard work than grand ideas. WB is famous for not investing in businesses he can't understand in five minutes.</p>
<p>"...doctor's are just as high as bankers on the prestige ladder..."</p>
<p>How f--king dare you compare bankers with doctors? You'd probably never be able to pass organic chemistry, let alone do well on MCAT, get accepted to med school and handle the rigorous curriculum that it has. Plus, the residency part after.</p>
<p>No, the "best and the brightest" don't go to banking, they become doctors. I have worked very hard to get my a$s to med school, and you want to compare me with some liberal arts, history degree from Dartmouth? Take your Ivy league diploma and shove it up your butt. </p>
<p>Also, you misspelled "doctors" you moron.</p>
<p>God bless all doctors, but I know they ones I know didn't choose the career because they were smarter or thought they were uniquely qualified to make it through O chem. Talk to most MDs in their 50's and what you hear is they wished they hadn't loved the thought of medicine so much because the reality of their profession and accompanying life style is not what they hoped it would be.</p>
<p>why do superdrive's posts all seem so angry?</p>
<p>the best and brightest science people become research scientists. not doctors.</p>
<p>"I have worked very hard to get my a$s to med school, and you want to compare me with some liberal arts, history degree from Dartmouth?"</p>
<p>Let me guess, you haven't gotten into med school, have you?</p>
<p>Yes, I'm in med school fyi.</p>
<p>Good for you. Now, calm down. It seems the stress of med school is getting to you. </p>
<p>Good luck! :)</p>
<p>Rankings do matter...</p>
<p>With my degree from UCLA, I can pretty much demand virtually any "related" internship/fulltime entry level position about 2 hours away in defunct riverside county. But the whole below average starting salary doesn't necessarily attract me.</p>
<p>The prestige factor matters...
Its definitely not everything...
But it can certainly open a door so you can get a foot in.</p>
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Ivy Leaguers were more interested in money and being prestige wh0res and now the economy is ruined b/c of greedy, arrogant Ivy Leaguers. I hope you Ivy Leaguers get your coemuppance. Karma's a b*tch isn't it, i-bankers?
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<p>Hey I resent that. Ivy League is not interchangeable with i-bankers. I have an Ivy degree and I assure you, I am dancing over the grave of the bulge bracket with every bit as much glee as you.</p>
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I have an Ivy degree and I assure you, I am dancing over the grave of the bulge bracket with every bit as much glee as you.
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<p>Celebrating the demise of others seems unconscionable to me; especially in this environment when there is a strong possibility of it coming back to affect you too. It looks like your Penn degree didn't encourage you to be any less selfish or concerned about your fellow man than a loathsome Wharton one.</p>
<p>I agree gellino.</p>
<p>It is hardly unconscionable to celebrate the demise of a group that has put the US on the brink if a major recession. And they did it through absolute stupidity and greed. We celebrate their death as we would the death of any group causing major harm to the US people. The were economic terrorists and far more effective.</p>
<p>95+% of people on Wall Street had nothing to do with the causes of the economic downturn and I find lumping everyone on Wall Street together as 'bad guys' as simplistic and insulting. The actions of Main Street are just as responsible for what has happened as Wall Street.</p>
<p>It's not just simplistic, it's showing a deep and total lack of understanding of what's happened in America. If only we could really blame it on an isolated group of greedy people....</p>
<p>sounds somewhat convincing but completely defying the reality.</p>