Recent content by Mity

I got my MSc Finance at LSE and I found Central London to be quite busy. Isn't there a new tube line being built? And they're thinking about either relocating or adding onto Heathrow because lack of flights from Gatwick? From the news I'm reading, it seems your economy recovered (in London...

Have you had a job in the "real world" yet? I've been denied a position for being overqualified - I was told this after the interview. The formal rejection was a standard email: "We have found other candidates with backgrounds more close aligned with our needs" or something like this. The point...

I knew someone in college who was 31 and completing his first bachelor's (in fact, the first one in this family I found out later on). He grew up poor and didn't keep the best of company and ran into some trouble. Because of his age, I thought he was poor and worked for some time and then came...

I'm interested in highways, bridges, and metros. Also, I live with my dad, who is retired, and I want to save money by living at home. With all the commotion, it seems that even during an economic downturn, the essential infrastructure of a mega-city will need to be maintained. I can't imagine...

My background: -BA Economics 2007 from a UC school -I took a year of Calculus, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, and a few Stats courses as well to prepare for grad school in Econ. -I never took General Chem or Physics -Worked in finance. I realized early on that my job was more about...