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Day 7: Completing the Foundation - Final Chapters and Transition to Exam Preparation

Seven days into my SIE exam journey, and today marked a significant milestone—completing the final five chapters (16-20) of the STC program and officially finishing all the core material. This achievement feels like reaching the end of the foundation-building phase and transitioning into intensive exam preparation mode. With my

Day 6: Marathon Study Session - From Offerings to Compliance in the Investment Advisory World

Saturday provided the perfect opportunity for an extended study session, and I dedicated the entire day to tackling five comprehensive chapters (11-15) from the STC program. This marathon session felt like transitioning from understanding investment products and strategies to mastering the operational and regulatory framework that makes the entire securities

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Day 5: Exploring Alternative Investments and Options - Advanced Strategies for Sophisticated Portfolios

Five days into my SIE exam journey, and today's deep dive into Chapters 9 and 10 from the STC program felt like discovering the advanced tools and strategies that separate basic investing from sophisticated portfolio management. If the previous days were about understanding traditional securities and packaged products,

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Moving Forward: Finding Purpose in Business After Loss

The sun filters through my window as I open my laptop for another day. It's been five months since Leni passed, and the house still feels too quiet throughout the day and night. But during the day, I find solace in building something meaningful—something that might have

Classical Literature

What's on tap today? Brothers Karamazov Week 1 - Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book I - Herodotus, The Histories, Book I, paragraphs 1-94

I'm going to give you all a summary of what I learned and what my thoughts are from week 1 of the 2 courses I'm taking at the University of Chicago graduate school. The first course is a deep dive on Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov

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Back End Developer Education

I have always been interested in back end development, and I've dealt with it a lot off and on throughout my career,

University of Pittsburgh Master of Data Science

I have been interested in getting a Masters degree in Data Science for a while now. Most of my delay in moving forward has been due to cost...

What to do with all the time in the world!

That is the problem I constantly face since the passing of my wife. I try to keep myself busy with work (which I love) but I can only do that for so many hours in a day. I used to have a lot of hobbies, but I don't