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I think being a non-business major helps me to think from different perspectives, that
I always have fresh eyes on things. I'm always curious. I always challenge the traditional,
the routine system. So when I went to work for Goldman Sachs during the summer, there
was a time when we were doing a project. In the final meeting, a VP on our team was asking
how we thought about it. And everyone else was saying, this is great, we've reached our
goal and we accomplished it. And when it was my turn, suddenly something else came up to
me and I started to challenge our initial goals. And saying, "You know what, I think
there is something else that we ignored at the first. I kind of surprised everyone, because
I was thinking something really, really nontraditional to business. The VP on the team thought at
first, like, and said, "You know what, I totally agree with you."
Here at Mount Holyoke all the students are encouraged to communicate to someone from
different backgrounds, and to think about what their cultural background is and to collaborate
and communicate. This is very, very important, because when I was in the corporate world,
it's actually also a very diverse environment. People are from different states, people are
from different cultures. We speak different languages. And being able to communicate well
is very important.
... not to report it in their financial statement or if he's ... accept the backdating choice
After graduating, I've decided to go back to the team I was working on over the summer.
I will be going back to Salt Lake, to Utah, and I probably will stay there for a few years,
to learn and to get some experience of working in a corporate environment. And then I'll
probably then go to grad school to study organizational behaviors or management. I haven't decided
yet, but I've decided to have some sort of work experience before I go back to academia.