I feel suicidal because I didn't get an offer from GS

I did everything that people wrote on this forum. I studied harder than everyone, networked harder than anyone, and started my club but still I didn't get an offer from GS.

It was my dream to work at GS, I kept dreaming about saying 'I work at GS' since highschool. I watched all of the documentaries about GS, and read about all of the scandals about it. I wanted to feel bad ass like everyone who worked at GS. I feel really bad and don't know what to do. Recently I got an offer from Morgan Stanley, and had to accept it because I want to work in IB. It's not even JPM, but fucking Morgan Stanley.

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You will learn that there are more important things in life. You didn’t get a GS offer, so what? Use it as fuel. Go to MS and kill it there, show GS what they missed out on. Stay hungry, humble yourself and keep on going after it. Focus on other things too, family, friends..your future isn’t just determined by which bank you started in. Got an entire life ahead, this is just one minor bump

 
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Only MS? What a fucking loser. MS is famous for PWM, not IBD. Besides, exit opps from MS are 0.023% worse than from GS. Comp on average is also 0.007% lower. What a fucking failure. The average banker at MS is 0.02 inches shorter and 0.14% less attractive. 
 

GS = United States of America, MS = Africa. 

 

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