Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ about education

Re:Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ ab... by CamperBob2 on Thursday April 30, 2020 @06:29PM (#23036983)

I don't know about that. If you fall short of your aspirations at the PhD or postgrad level, there's always quantitative finance or any number of other lucrative careers where your background will at least get you in the door for an interview.

For the athlete, it's literally all or nothing.

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Re:Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ ab... by defterGoose on Thursday April 30, 2020 @07:13PM (#23037363)

Except, for so many of us who have studied hard science, the idea of a career in quantitative finance is the exact analog of the purebred racehorse who breaks his leg on the track and gets taken out back for an acute brain-scrambling.

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Re:Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ ab... by wutbrodo on Thursday April 30, 2020 @07:20PM (#23037422)

As the example originating this subthread shows, quantitative finance isn't even close to the only option for a lucrative career available to those educated in the hard sciences.

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Re:Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ ab... by knzhou on Thursday April 30, 2020 @06:33PM (#23037019)

> there's always quantitative finance

From the perspective of understanding the universe, that is nothing. Decent consolation prize though.

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Re:Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ ab... by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday April 30, 2020 @06:36PM (#23037035)

Student athletes could go to class, engage in scholarship, and learn something.

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