>> So, I was born in China and I spent about four years in England also
and I spent the last eight to nine years in the United States.
When I came over to the States, it was half way through high school,
time to start looking at colleges.
I had the opportunity to visit Penn State with my mother and just fell in love
with it the first time we visited the campus, the people and everything
that was happening there, not to mention the football, obviously.
So, when it came to the time to decide, it was a very easy decision.
A great school, great program and at the time I didn't know what I wanted to do.
You probably get that a lot from the students that you have.
And what drew me to finance was really the ability to work with not just numbers,
I'm a bit of a numbers guy, just like a lot of the people we have in finance,
but work with people on the same level.
So, the opportunity came about to study finance with the Smeal College of Business.
And it was a good experience.
I would mention to anyone if you have the opportunity to do so, definitely take a look at.
I think it would be tougher for alums like myself now to get into the major
because it's improved quite a bit since I've graduated.
The discipline, the rigorous academia that they really try to put
in place, it's helping, it's helping.
And it gives students that edge with the programs
that they have whether it's the Nittany Lion Fund, The Trading Room,
Lions on Wall Street, for example.
A lot of the initiatives are really helping students to understand careers
in the Wall Street world, if you will, after graduation.