Personal Interests & Passions
Baseball
Coming from a family that played baseball throughout college, I was introduced to my first love at a very young age. I started playing baseball at the age of seven and never looked back. Baseball was my escape from the daily stresses of life where I could focus only on life between the lines. I played baseball through high school, where I served as one of the team captains my senior year. Today, I am still very involved in baseball, as I look to create, analyze, and run baseball statistics and consider myself a die-hard Red Sox fan.
Hockey
Much like baseball, I developed my love and passion for hockey at a very young age. Growing up in Massachusetts (a hockey hotbed), in a family full of hockey players, my love for hockey was inevitable. I began skating at the age of six and by seven, I was playing organized hockey. Hockey was (and still is) a time when all of life’s troubles flowed by my shoulders as I glided my way up and down the ice. I played hockey throughout high school and served as one of the team captains my senior year. The entire hockey culture is still a prominent part of my life today, as I religiously watch the Boston Bruins and continue to play, whether in a rink, on the ponds, or in the streets.
Statistics & Numbers
I developed a real passion for numbers from a young age. The process of finding a solution and the subsequent end result has always given me such an adrenaline rush. I attribute my prolonged passion for numbers to my ability to use quantitative reasoning very effectively. Combined with my passion for economics, my passion for numbers led to my obsession with statistics. For me, the proof for anything is from the hard numbers, which statistics provide. I am constantly checking sports statistics and attempting to create new methods and systems to try to analyze the players behind the stats. Essentially, my decision to pursue specifically economics (and finance to an extent) is derived from my passion for numbers and statistics.