-: So the first one is academically.
I think the course work
and the professors here really challenged me
and enabled me to get to a deeper level
of analyzing things and problem-solving.
It's also allowed me to pick up
really sophisticated math pretty quickly,
and I'm in an industry that is rooted
in financial theory and actuarial science,
so being able to pick up that math is necessary.
The second thing is socially.
While I was here, I got outside my comfort zone,
I joined some groups,
I made some awesome lifelong friends,
and actually met my wife here.
And honestly, if Penn State
gave me nothing else but my wife,
I'd be forever grateful,
so that definitely had a huge impact on me.
But then the third component would be professionally.
During my time at Penn State,
I got to network, I got to meet a lot of people,
but I also found this opportunity at E.ON,
the job I've been at since I graduated,
and that's really helped me catapult my career.
I walked into an opportunity
that could not have been better.
It was in a business that was set to explode,
executive compensation was really
just starting to go through a revolution,
so all these different perspectives
were really being introduced
at a higher level for the first time.
And because of that growth and that opportunity,
it's allowed me to get outside
my comfort zone continually
and just try new things.
Run different parts of this business
that I never thought I would at this age.
But that wouldn't have happened
without being able to find
that opportunity at Penn State.