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Quant Noob Here

Corey Rowell

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Hey All

I've been following Quantnet for a couple months and this will be my first post. I've been really interested in pursuing a career in quantitative analysis. I've been working on my C++ and I've downloaded a couple of the books off the recommended reading lists and have thumbed through them trying to pick up on a few things.

I'm starting my bachelors in computational economics from UCSB and hopefully will be able to move on to a top 10 grad school. I've been trying to learn something new everyday related to programming/finance.

Seeing as most of you have already gone through where I hope to be in 5-10 years what recommendations/tips of advice can you guys give me so I can begin helping myself out now, for the future?
 
Hi,

Tip №1. Never ever start a presentation of you from weaknesses.

Tip №2. Never ever mention MFE, Quantitative Finance and HTML in the same paragraph let alone the same sentence.

You are welcome :)
 
KaiRu said:
Hi,

Tip №1. Never ever start a presentation of you from weaknesses.

Tip №2. Never ever mention MFE, Quantitative Finance and HTML in the same paragraph let alone the same sentence.

You are welcome :)
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I don't think he did o_O
 
Schwanstabilo said:
Seeing as most of you have already gone through where I hope to be in 5-10 years what recommendations/tips of advice can you guys give me so I can begin helping myself out now, for the future?
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Welcome to Quantnet. Glad to see another lurker who posts ;)
You are way ahead of when I was at a similar point in my study so in when you are ready for your MFE journey, you should be well prepared.
  • Get good at at least one programming language/a scripting language/ and database query
  • Go to free talks, networking events
  • Join a professional society (IAFE, SQA, QWAFAFEW, etc)
  • Participate in an open-source project (quantlib, etc)
  • Talk to current and past students of different programs.
  • Attend open house of a few programs you are interested in.
 
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