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How to Choose the Right Course for You
If you could go back in time or if you could give some more advice to your teenage self, would you have preferred to study a quantitative degree undergraduate? Probably yes. I think my advice to young people when they're choosing courses is twofold. Choose professors rather than course descriptions because a bad professor can write an enticing course description. Don't study things where you would otherwise read the course books for leisure on the weekend. Just go and sit there and week at weekends and read Gore-Vidal's, Lincoln and the Remnics Obama biography. That will give you enough of a flavor of things. There are very few us wake up on Saturday morning and think what I really need to