Pictured: One of my all time favorite comics Pearls Before Swine which balanced dad jokes with poignant moments in a way only rivaled by Calvin and Hobbes

A common refrain heard in the churnosphere in the last few years is a sense of urgency when something appealing pops up. It’s one thing when you’re chasing something like a public SUB or transfer bonus, where there’s (usually) a clearly defined expiration date.

But since you’re reading this, you’re likely a fellow degen who is looking for opportunities that will never end up behind a paywall on TPG. And those are the kind of opportunities that don’t have an obvious finite lifespan.

I’ve written a post about this at a general level, so now we can use the specific example that we all have from the last couple of days. When an opportunity to avoid awkward P2 recon calls and various browser shenanigans presents itself, delay at your own peril. These are few and far between at this point, and you certainly aren’t the only person who wants one. 

This one wasn’t quite “fat finger the noon reprice” level of urgent, but the signs were there that it wasn’t long for the world. I don’t think I’ve ever seen links percolate from DMs, to group DMs, to probe groups, to private groups, to “technically private, but as large as a major state school’s undergrad population” groups as quickly as these did. And as we all know, a mere 7 days later, the original source proclaimed (according to Google, anyway) that “the offer is dead, the festivities are over”. 

So, what’s the moral of the story? I think the current environment is going to make it hard to close Pandora’s box on a find like this that is so universally applicable and desired. Unlike a lot of the perpetually profitable things in MS, this one is really easy, and the barrier to entry is low. 

If an offer comes across your desk that has a clear value prop to a MR-starved MSer, it’s worth considering whether you should act first and ask questions later. And this goes doubly so once you see it spreading like wildfire. 

Something that I hear often from some of the smartest people I know in the hobby is that they have no regrets about offers they took advantage of – only the ones that they didn’t. 

If you took advantage of this one, congrats! If you didn’t, now is as good a time as ever to ignore the lame English idioms from this blog title and start brushing up on your Chinese ones. 

Umunezero!