QuoteOriginally posted by: traderjoe1976QuoteOriginally posted by: sunraQuoteOriginally posted by: farmerAll these Stanford students are poor on paper. But they get free football games, movies, housing, I am sure they surf every weekend and get drunk every night and screw college girls.can anyone confirm this? looking for motivation to go for a phd ... but somehow i doubt the phd students get drunk and/or are popular with ze ladies also de shaw blows but david shaw is one cool dude, even if i doubt the usefulness of 'computational biochemistry'If you get drunk, they will kick you out of the PhD program.Thst's really tough, 5 years of hard work and no boozing.

QuoteOriginally posted by: traderjoe1976QuoteOriginally posted by: sunraQuoteOriginally posted by: farmerAll these Stanford students are poor on paper. But they get free football games, movies, housing, I am sure they surf every weekend and get drunk every night and screw college girls.can anyone confirm this? looking for motivation to go for a phd ... but somehow i doubt the phd students get drunk and/or are popular with ze ladies also de shaw blows but david shaw is one cool dude, even if i doubt the usefulness of 'computational biochemistry'The PhD students are there to work 70 hours a week CHEAP for 6 years. If you get drunk, they will kick you out of the PhD program.The undergrads have a great deal of respect for the PhD students and refer to the PhD students as Poor International Graduate Students (PIGS).The only consolation is that if you survive the 5 years of the PhD program you can make good money afterwards.I think that if I had even worked 70 hours a month on my research my advisor would have been over the moon!!!!!! I like to think that for me the PhD program was like spending a part of my retiremnet, but while still YOUNG!!!! Oh, and for that matter even amoungst my harder working colleagues in the Math PhD program there were a number of drunkards... And yes I did go to a top US school.

QuoteOriginally posted by: photoguyThe dinner out budget is too low, though.There is an easy solution to that: dinner hooker. New York girls are such quick learners, you say those two words together one time they will stick in her brain, and tango in there, until she never wants to be taken out to dinner again. You guys all start planting that association, pretty soon half the restaurants will be out of business and you will all be rich.No girl would push herself through college and work in the city in the first place, if she weren't a total pawn for stuff other people say. They will make a flushed toilet spin backwards if there is some feminist pride thing associated with it. "Dinner hooker" has the force, it makes "sexual harassment" seem harmless by comparison.Do you think Madonna makes guys buy her dinner?

QuoteOriginally posted by: farmer There is an easy solution to that: dinner hooker. New York girls are such quick learners, you say those two words together one time they will stick in her brain, and tango in there, until she never wants to be taken out to dinner again. you have to pay for dinner? MOst of the time, girls cook me dinner, wash the dishes, then strip naked.

QuoteOriginally posted by: KackToodlesMOst of the time, girls cook me dinner, wash the dishes, then strip naked. You let girls into your house before you know what they look like naked?? What do you do if they have, like, flaws? That is so mean to lead a girl on like that.

I think that profuse volume of 3rd world immigration and exponential growth of H1b quotas killed the scientific star, not materialism. Scientists don't make comparatively less money than they did in the 60s merely because would be scientists have chosen more lucrative endeavors. That would make scientists less plentiful, and better compensated. I'm sure this will have alerted the PC clergy...QuoteOriginally posted by: ArthurDentQuoteOriginally posted by: MulberrySometimes I read on the board about people that "found a love" for finance halfway through their phd in some engineering discipline. I chuckle a little as it may not be love that brings you to finance but might be something else ...Finance is the only area of intellectual work today that pays better than the average policeman's pay. Thirty years back, a scientist or a computer programmer could hope to have a lifestyle similar to doctors, lawyers and executives. Today the same scientific professions pay about as much as firemen, police and the like. Why would you not want to do technical work in finance, however mundane, than slave away in another industry or academia pursuing objectives that society does not appreciate anymore?The West's greatest decade was the 60's when they landed men on the moon. It's been a long downhill march to anti-intellectualism since then.Materialism killed the scientific star.

Anyone interviewed with them recently?

QuoteOriginally posted by: DevonFangsAnyone interviewed with them recently?oh man, what memories this thread brings back.INFIDEL, Wilfrid, TraderJoe (the original non-watered-down version), KackToodles, twofish... all gone.

TraderJoe ("TJ" to his friends here) was a special case, indeed.

QuoteOriginally posted by: ArthurDentQuoteOriginally posted by: DevonFangsAnyone interviewed with them recently?oh man, what memories this thread brings back.INFIDEL, Wilfrid, TraderJoe (the original non-watered-down version), KackToodles, twofish... all gone.+1

QuoteOriginally posted by: ArthurDentQuoteOriginally posted by: DevonFangsAnyone interviewed with them recently?oh man, what memories this thread brings back.INFIDEL, Wilfrid, TraderJoe (the original non-watered-down version), KackToodles, twofish... all gone.What do you think happened to them? Did they change usernames or actually left Wilmott?

QuoteOriginally posted by: ChicagoGuyQuoteOriginally posted by: ArthurDentQuoteOriginally posted by: DevonFangsAnyone interviewed with them recently?oh man, what memories this thread brings back.INFIDEL, Wilfrid, TraderJoe (the original non-watered-down version), KackToodles, twofish... all gone.What do you think happened to them? Did they change usernames or actually left Wilmott?They all work for DEShaw now.

QuoteOriginally posted by: DevonFangsQuoteOriginally posted by: ChicagoGuyQuoteOriginally posted by: ArthurDentQuoteOriginally posted by: DevonFangsAnyone interviewed with them recently?oh man, what memories this thread brings back.INFIDEL, Wilfrid, TraderJoe (the original non-watered-down version), KackToodles, twofish... all gone.What do you think happened to them? Did they change usernames or actually left Wilmott?They all work for DEShaw now.Yes, they all work for Long John Silver's

I can't say much, but I do know some of their identities, and I just wanted to let you know that they are a-ok.That all said, I hope Amin's oppression by the loafers of Alabama, and their godlets, has come to a close.

QuoteOriginally posted by: EscapeArtist999I can't say much, but I do know some of their identities, and I just wanted to let you know that they are a-ok.Can you pls find out why they're not posting anymore. Did they find a job where they actually have to work instead of talking to random people on a forum all day?