Strange Brew by John Deering for December 28, 2020

A somewhat similar situation occurred at a university where I used to teach. An unfamiliar student enrolled in the undergraduate quantum mechanics class. This is a class only physics majors would take, and only after taking several prerequisites, so a new face will immediately stand out, but everyone assumed he must be a transfer student from another university. After about two weeks, the student finally spoke up: “Excuse me, but what does this have to do with business?” “This doesn’t have anything to do with business,” my colleague who was teaching the course answered. “Isn’t this ‘Quantum Mechanics for Business Majors’?” “There IS no ‘Quantum Mechanics for Business Majors’!” My guess is that he confused Quantitative Finance with Quantum Physics.