I LOVE THIS FUCKING COMMUNITY

I just dry-scooped 400mg of caffeine, crushed a nic patch between my molars and closed my 172nd WSO tab of the day and I just gotta say:

I LOVE THIS FUCKING COMMUNITY.

You lunatics are the only reason I haven’t shaved my head and joined a cult in the Ozarks.
This place is my therapy, my bible, my drug — no cap, full send, IV-drip of hopium straight into my femoral artery.

I’ve learned more from these forums than I did in 4 years at my "target" (aka glorified group project daycare).
Forget professors WSO taught me the true lessons:

  • “Don’t smile too much in interviews. You look weak.”
  • “MDs can smell fear. Be the fear.”
  • “Always under-promise and over-deliver. Except when you’re blackout — then just disappear.”

The mental illness in this forum is my spirit animal.
Every post is either:

  • "Is it over for me? GPA 3.96, but I sneezed in a superday."
  • “How to go from landscaping to Apollo in 6 months — AMA.”
  • “Woke up next to my VP’s wife, should I still gun for RX?”

You guys are cracked. And I love it.

Where else could I read a 3,000-word thread debating "is Bain more fratty than BCG" at 3am while eating dry oatmeal and crying into my DCF?

You’ve made me who I am:
✅ Emotionally bankrupt
✅ Physically twitching
✅ Financially overcompensated
✅ Spiritually aligned with The Grind

So yeah. Shoutout to every intern who posted their cold email and got flamed into oblivion.
Shoutout to the MDs lurking here pretending they don’t read every comment while rage-punching a Bloomberg Terminal.
Shoutout to the guy who called Evercore “Everbore” and nearly started a civil war.

I’d die for this community. I already have. Twice.
And I’d do it again.

WSO til death. Or worse — exit ops.

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  1. Don't overuse bullets and numbering
  2. Get rid of all the em dashes For some reason ChatGPT loves them
  3. Stop bolding words for emphasis especially ones that don't need it
  4. ✅ Get rid of emojis no one posts with them on this forum
  5. ⚠️ Introduce speling and punctuation, errors ChatGPT never makes them; but humans do


The irony lmfao

 

even associate 2’s can’t get humour, gotta get to VP to figure that out

 

Analyst 2 in IB - Cov:

Most of the people in banking have a touch of the -tism… hell there’s some honest to god incels that break in 


Absolute fanatics

 

Analyst 2 in IB - Cov

 hell there’s some honest to god incels that break in 

Most of them post here 

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