26A- Celebrating Failure

26A- Celebrating Failure

This past semester I applied for the Masters of Science in Finance Combined degree program at UF. I had been in the feeder program for this combined degree for all of my freshman year as well as the first semester of my sophomore. The lady who directed the program and I never really saw eye to eye. I really put a lot of time and effort into learning the program, networking with people already in the program, and time commitment to meetings, presentations, and research on my own. I was really looking forward to this opportunity as I saw that great things could come out of it and I was already very passionate about finance. Yet the interview came and went and the lady who ran the program was the lady who was interviewing me and I did not receive an offer to join the program. At that point in time I was devastated. I had put so much time into getting to where I was and I saw that as the only way I was going to excel and get into a secure job, with a good company. Yet I had time to sit and think and I'm a firm believer that everything happens for a reason and I wanted to find what that reason was. Within finance I wanted to get into the equity research side of the subject. It is very data and analytics heavy and was not mentioned too much in the MSF program. I looked into the combined program for Information Systems and saw that they had a Business Analytics track that I could follow and I talked to some people and was accepted into the program. I think that it will be better for me in what I want to do than what I would have done in MSF. Failure is embarrassing but you can't see the whole picture to your puzzle and hindsight is 20/20. Looking back I do not think I would've enjoyed my time in the MSF program and I'm excited for what is to come.