Question 1:

What makes you stare off into space?

A really the cool the concept or idea, like if I'm sitting in class or the finance and like the teachers talking about something Interesting, and I'll start thinking, like, oh, that means that, then, like, this means this, and like, I just start to daze off in a weird thought.

Question 2:

Can beauty exist without suffering?

I think beauty can exist without suffering; I think it really comes down to randomness. I believe beauty can cause suffering or suffering can cause beauty, but I think they could be correlated, but definitely not a cause and effect.

Question 3:

Describe the most beautiful thing you have ever destroyed.

There was a park near my house and, um, me and my friends used always to go and spray paint it, and we would like screw around with the park. It was gonna get torn down eventually, and a couple of years later it did, but it was a really beautiful park.

Question 4:

Has your work ever driven you mad? If it has, how did you come to clarity afterwards? If it hasn't, how do you prevent it from doing so?

Oh, yeah, my work has definitely driven me mad. You put in hours of research on a certain company and look at what's coming out, their earnings, their day, the analysts' expectations, and just how the company is progressing. They have, like, good management, sound fundamentals, they have a product you think is gonna be important in the future, and then it just goes haywire. It's impossible to, like, be perfect at it, because it's like, physically not possible, to relax, I expect that I picked the wrong side, and, move on and try to make my next move.

Question 5:

What's a piece of advice you would give a five-year-old?

A piece of advice that I would give to a five-year-old is to take your time. Don't think if you work fast and put a little effort, you'll get to the same place as if you take your time and do it and spend a lot of time.

Question 6:

Is there any part of your work that is inspired by nature?

Oh, um. No, not really.

Question 7:

What’s something physical and mental that you always carry?

I carry around my phone, keys, and all that, which is the physical, but it has no, like, important value to me. Mental, my parents told me that, like, “hey, you can do whatever you want, you can, like, you know, try to work your hardest and become successful, or you can, like, not do anything and drop out, but it all comes down to what you want to do.”

Question 8

When is something too much?

Something is too much when you're lying in bed staring at the ceiling, thinking, “How can this possibly happen?”

Question 9:

Have you ever seen something so strange it made you doubt your own eyes?

Up until now, I've never seen something crazy enough where I've doubted my own eyes. I always like to know what is happening in front of me.

Question 10:

What inspired you to choose your major?

I started talking to my one the friend's dad, and he was teaching me all, different strategies and, kind of operations and things you were able to do in the market, and, like, it was just such a like a kind of a tree with a bunch of branches where, you learned.

Question 11:

Is there such a thing as an original idea?

Oh, yeah, 100%. I think original ideas are rare because a lot of things now fall into copying. However, I think when people do have an original idea, they can make a lot out of it.

Question 12:

How has studying your major changed the way you see the world?

I think there are a lot of people in my major who are, you talk with them and like, you just, realize you're like, oh, wow, they are not the kind of people you wanna associate with. I think it brings a lot of the wrong crowd. But what I learned about that is that there are still a lot of people who are really interested in and care about trying to help others. Like, financial planners of people who help with retirement, like, there are a lot of good people in it, and I think that it's like one of those majors, whereas two sides of the spectrum.

Question 13:

Which course in your major has been the most rewarding so far?

I think Finance 406 has been the most rewarding. It was about how the markets work and how financial institutions, with their various jobs, bring the market together. Because I like, I didn't have a full understanding of how money is completely circulated within the economy, and I think 406 kind of really brought that together.

Question 14:

What’s one thing everyone should understand about your field?

You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to put in tens of hours, and you don't have to dedicate your life to it. If you just watched the news and keep up with the market, you can perform at the same level as banks and hedge funds.

Question 15:

What advice would you give to someone considering majoring in your field?

I would say you can't just go to class and that's all the effort you do. Like, you have to have a passion outside of class, whether that's doing your own research or paper trading.

Question 16

What’s something you love learning about right now?

Okay. I'm taking one class, Astro 130, and it covers the physics of black holes. One of my favorite facts is like, when you're describing a human being, you will take a near infinite amount of numbers in facts to describe the human, because we got hairs, eyes, nose, feet, all that, which takes a lot of complex, like numbers and analogies to describe. But when describing the black hole, if you know the mass charge in the spin of it, you can know everything about the black hole, because while they're like gigantic, scary objects, they're very, like they're very intrinsically simple objects.

Question 17:

If you had a time machine that could travel to one day in the past or future, where and when would you go?

1929, during the Great Depression, it was a huge event that shaped how our economy and monetary system work.

Question 18:

What motivates you to keep going when work gets hard?

My parents, theyre very smart people although when they were in college, they didn't have like as much motivation, and they basically told me like, hey, like, you can go to college and do whatever you want fail, drop out, like, do nothing your whole life, or or you can work hard and get to where you want to be. And so, I'm not necessarily doing it for my parents, but like, they expect highly of me as I expect highly of them.

Question 19:

If you had to teach a classroom of elementary school children how to do your dream job, how would you do it?

I would teach them about, like, the essence of probability. Because if you know a probability and you know of a possible profit, you can find the expected profit based on a certain outcome.

Question 20:

Do you enjoy working with abstract ideas or concrete facts more?

Abstract ideas. Because they can potentially be concrete ideas, or they can be a crazy theory that never gets verified. But I think that with abstract ideas, crazy things come from. Like, abstract ideas, you can get creative and think outside the box, and kind of come up with new ways to get from point A to point B.