do you seriously think you have to be smart to get into banking?

Look at these guys:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news…

They solved this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E8_(mathematics)

I can't understand a word of it. And how much are these guys pulling in a year? Not much. Sometimes we forget that not every intelligent person gravitates to wall street - that guy beside your black car driving a 93 camry with rusty fenders could be more intelligent than literally anybody in the financial industry and you'd never know it.

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