Brown’s latest alumni magazine stars cover girl Meredith Whitney.While the profile (by fellow alum and Fortune writer Jon Birger) is largely a bunch of facts any self-respecting Dollar Dominatrix acolyte would know (Double D received death threats for her October 2007 call on Citi, as a kid she had a paper route, she’s married to wrestler JBL, she doesn’t take shit or prisoners), there are a few pieces of news you can use. First off, and we’re not certain who could best put this to use, but probably any banks looking to butter the girl up, she she’s been dubbed “the most important Brown alum on Wall Street.” Working that into conversation and referring to it as a “huge understatement” could probably get you far. To that end, if you’ve got her out the night before she’s set to drop a bomb on your ass, note that she’s nostalgic for something called “Thursday Funk Nights,” and tempt her with whatever that entails (Vikram). Finally, for the children reading, do not fear (unless you were hoping to be rolling around in the sticky fifties, in which case, better luck next time):
Asked what advice she’d have for Brown students contemplating careers in finance today, Whitney answers that, even with the recession, there are entry-level jobs to be had on the Street. The key, Whitney says, is to pursue them for the right reasons.
“Take research,” she says. “It’s a great job to have because you get paid to learn. You learn about fascinating businesses, and you do so at a young age. Plus, it’s a true meritocracy.
“But if all you’re thinking about is going to Wall Street to make a lot of money, forget it. Wall Street will no longer be a place where three or four years out of college, you can be making $400,000 a year.”
..and on that depressing note, I’m regretting not going to med school more each day.
“Thursday Funk Nights,”
Are you sure that is spelled correctly?
@2- yes. funk with a ‘k,’ not ‘fun.’
Coed bathrooms, ahh the joys of living in keeney quad.
Porker Stansberry farts in DD’s general direction.
@3 he meant fuck not fun you twit.
-Wildcard bitches!
Coed bathrooms, ahh the joys of living in keeney quad.
“prophet”…….wow…….
I guess “media whore” didn’t have the same ring to it….
I still can’t wait to buy some hard-on snake oil from her husband……
keeney quad ftw!
– John Seely Brown (A.B. 1962) – inventor of spellcheck
@1, I DISMISSED YOU YEARS AGO!
-JEFF
P.S. NOD IF YOU GET THIS
@8- that would be cornell
Why does she hate coed bathrooms?
I cant wait for this broad to fafll on her face. Shes really annoying. All analysts are full of crap anyway
I for one am confident that its not going to take very long for another scam to be invented, along the lines of dotcom and housing. Probably something that has green somewhere in its name. So that comment about not being able to pull in $400K within a few years will soon be rendered totally null and void.
I guess Brown does not have very many important business alum if she is considered the most important Brown alum currently working on Wall Street. Would she even be in the top 500 if she went to Wharton?
@17 – c’mon man. why don’t you just send an email to tgfd (although I’m not sure he needs that)? we don’t need that here…
@17 – why are you talking to yourself?
@18 The offending post has been deleted.
@18 haha. you lose
@18 = fail (not quite epic).
Well, she IS right about research being a good place to start nowadays – but hasn’t it always been a high-demand front-office role?
@22:
Research is dying. It’s the worse place to start, IMHO. One day you’re covering a handful of names, the next you’re out because of “strategic” realignments in coverage.
MIA Analysts Give Companies Worries
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124328512396452063.html
Sigh …
Funk Night is a long-running Thursday night dance party at the Underground, the campus pub.
And Steve Rattner strikes me as a more powerful Brown alum on Wall Street. But all you Wharton lovers, consider that Brown has no business school and indeed no undergraduate business major.
I just want to see her boobs…
@25 – & you’re welcome to them.
She’s utterly unattractive, bordering on fugly, if you include the inflated sense of self-importance.
Not even a butter face, unless you misinterpret that to mean “looks like she smeared butter all over her face”
@8 & 12, I agree that cornell is the “special needs” ivy that really shouldn’t be an ivy at all, but brown ain’t much better — the “half-witted” ivy perhaps?
@23
You are an idiot – Research is probably the least impacted at the BB’s by this meltdown (still severely impacted). This is because BB’s only research large/mega Cap firms in general or have generic strategy groups covering certain types of securities and stuff that will always exist.
The WSJ link you posted is talking about a sub 10 MM revenue company prolly. Small boutique research isn’t a great place to be. But aside from that, not too bad.
@15-Money, making money, and having money are now totally out of fashion with our new Administration’s youth disciples. It is far more hip to pee on the entire concept of gaining wealth. Everyone wants to be a ‘paid volunteer’ now in one of the countless new government service groups.