When I left for college, I always intended to obtain a business degree. I enjoyed learning about how business works and found the stories of success and failure to be fascinating. I think I was naturally drawn to the finance program within the CBA because I historically was strong in math. I decided to minor in economics because it was such an obvious academic parallel to finance. I also took a lot of accounting classes. I really didn’t enjoy the classes at first, even though I did exceptionally well in them. As those classes became more complex I realized how useful they were with what I was doing in Finance. In the end, I ended up really enjoying accounting classes, and actually graduated only a few hours shy of an accounting degree.
K-State graduation year: 2004