I am from Fairfax, Virginia. I have always had a good sense of direction, in every sense of the phrase. I always knew I wanted to study and have a career in business. When I was a child,  I was only interested in business because I knew the reward was money. I was able to be exposed to the careers of my Dad and Grand-mom, who were in accounting and finance respectively.  As I got older, I realized that I needed to find a new direction in why I wanted to go into business because only earning and managing money was not desirable to me. I wanted to find an area that would allow me to be creative, to be strategic, to do meaningful work. For me, this area was marketing.

Even though I am confident that marketing is where I want to have my career, I am still unsure about which areas of marketing interest me the most. So far, I have been able to find some of my preferences in the area. For example, I prefer digital marketing over sales. I would like to explore more into some of the areas of marketing that I have heard about, like event marketing, product marketing, and marketing analytics. My goal after college is to become a marketing specialist at either a marketing agency or a private company. After at least 5 years, my next goal will be to start my own business.