4/3/17 - Monday @Mentions

Happy Monday WSO!

Upcoming webinars and webinar rewinds on the WSO Frontpage (replays of old webinars you may have missed, free for 24 hours):

Rewind - Lower MM PE Investment Case Walkthrough + Q&A – 12am EDT, 4/19/2017
Webinar: IB Case Interview: A Hands-on Example -- 7pm EDT, 4/26/17
Webinar: RE Private Equity Case -- 7pm ET, 4/27/17

Posts of the Week:

Tricks of the Trade by @babymonkey357". 15 SB’s.

Discussion Topics of the Week:

They want my deposit money! Georgetown MBA vs. Columbia Business School Msc by @samnyc". 79 comments.
Plight of International Students with BBs by @Ivy_Student". 59 comments.
Let's Talk Russia by @Jim_Lahey". 97 comments.

Q&A of the Week:

Q&A: external Wholesaler by @MC80". 4 comments.

Comment of the Week:
This comment by @TimWSO" in the post “Does Growing Up Poor Make It Harder To Succeed?”.

Anyone who says otherwise is delusional. I'm one of the very few of my childhood friends who "made it”. The rest in jail, on drugs, doing nothing with their life, etc. The rest in jail, on drugs, doing nothing with their life, etc. I never knew what IB, AM, S&T or any that was growing up or even halfway through college. All I knew was that I wanted to be "in business" like Donald Trump on The Apprentice (very serious)

Most Active Monkeys in the past 30 days:

1. @TNA" 1330, 2. @Sil” 1132, and 3. @AllDay_028" with 818.

See where you rank here.

New WSO Certified Users:

I wanted to take the space here to thank and congratulate the new Certified Users from the past week.  Welcome to the club.  Some of these are new members, but all have confirmed that they work in the indicated industry at the level selected on their profile.  All Certified Users have a yellow star next to their usernames when posting in the forums, so you all know which sources you can trust the most.  As WSO Certified Users, they get 3 months free to the WSO Job Board ($45 Value).  Without further ado:

Investment Banking
@ztradez" - Generalist - 3rd+ Year Analyst
@falconpunch19" - Generalist - 2nd Year Analyst
@mbamfinquestions" - Industry/Coverage - 2nd Year Analyst
@viva_la_liberte" - Mergers and Acquisitions - 1st Year Analyst
@Einstein_WSP" - DCM - 1st Year Analyst

Private Equity
@NuckFuts" - Other - Assistant Vice President

Sales & Trading
@long_vega" - Other - 1st Year Analyst

Consulting
@Gumball3000" - Director
@devildog2067" - Consultant
@pnb2002" - 3rd+ Year Analyst

Commercial Banking
@LeverageThis" - 2nd Year Analyst

Real Estate
@REfuturesee" - Commercial - Principal
@Beers" - Commercial - Broker
@pudding" - Commercial - 1st Year Associate
@Bert_Breakfast" - Commercial - 2nd Year Analyst
@wb93" - Commercial - 2nd Year Analyst
@PHLrealestate" - Commercial - 1st Year Analyst
@maineiac42" - Commercial - Investment Analyst

Other
@Luxo" - Other - 1st Year Associate

Are you a working professional and you're interested in joining the WSO Certified User club?  E-mail [email protected] and [email protected] your username and send a link to your LinkedIn profile.

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