
Fall 2009 EBoard


1) What year are you in CSULB? Starting my 4th year
2) What is your major? Economics
3) How has FMA helped you? Found best friends during my three years at CSULB through FMA connections. Developed leadership skills and experience. Learned about many different career paths. Exposed to professional development skills like interviewing skills and resume skills.
4) What do you hope to gain for being a member?Expand my network by gaining more professionals and friendships.
5) What are your goals in the future? Graduate, travel, find a career I love doing.
6) If you had to choose one word to define you, what would it be and why? Focused. I am always focused on what needs to get done and how to make things better.

1) What year are you in CSULB? 4th year
2) What is your major? Triple major in Finance, Accounting, Management and minor in Business Economics
3) How has FMA helped you? FMA helped me get more information about the field of finance. It has helped me gain a better network and new friends.
4) What do you hope to gain for being a member? I hope that FMA teaches me more about Finance, gain more network and friends, and help me gain an internship.
5) What are your goals in the future? In this order: graduate > get my CFA, CPA, CFP > get two years of experience from a job and travel the world > go to Harvard Business School > do more traveling > get a 9 or 8 figure job > get married > live life
6) If you had to choose one word to define you, what would it be and why? Ambitious, because I know I will succeed.

1) What year are you in CSULB? Graduating senior
2) What is your major? Finance Investment
3) How has FMA helped you? Gain more knowledge on career choices, and become a professional. Meet new people both students and professionals, and have fun within FMA organization.
4) What do you hope to gain for being a member? Become more involved in FMA national honor society, including with attending various workshops and conferences. Network with alumni and professionals.
5) What are your goals in the future? Help people within my careers. Become a personal finance advisor.
6) If you had to choose one word to define you, what would it be and why? Complex.

1) What year are you in CSULB? I am entering my sixth and final year.
2) What is your major? I've changed majors many times, but now I'm sticking with Business Marketing & Finance.
3) How has FMA helped you? FMA has given me meaning in what should be my final semester at Cal State Long Beach. I now have something else to work towards besides classwork. It has inspired me to rise above from past experiences to pave a clearer path for future students.
4) What do you hope to gain for being a member? I would like to expand my network. This network entails friends, colleagues, associates, professionals, etcetera. You can never meet and know too many people.
5) What are your goals in the future? I would like to start working full time to finally pay off debts, and one day own a home. Once I have my career established, I want to travel to many places around the world, such as Italy, Britain, Japan, and Australia. Throughout this all, I want to meet the perfect woman to spend the rest of my life with.
6) If you had to choose one word to define you, what would it be and why? Dedicated. I never turn my back on anything that's not impossible. No matter what challenges face the situation, I will take it on headstrong. In fact, never say never.

1) What year are you in CSULB? Senior
2) What is your major? Accounting and Financial Management
3) How has FMA helped you? FMA has helped me discover all the different career opportunities I can pursue upon graduating. It has also helped me get to know other students with the same interests in business.
4) What do you hope to gain for being a member? By being a member, I would like to network and meet with a lot of students and professionals from various industries and backgrounds to expand my knowledge about the business world.
5) What are your goals in the future? My goals are to graduate, find a job that makes me happy, travel the world, and just enjoy life!
6) If you had to choose one word to define you, what would it be and why? I don't think anyone can be defined in one word! But I guess I would say motivated because I would like to accomplish many different things in life.

1) What year are you in CSULB?Currently my 2nd year at CSULB, 4th or 5th overall in college, somewhat depending on how you define college.
2) What is your major? Accounting and Marketing
3) How has FMA helped you? Better to ask how has FMA not helped me, in the last few semesters I have greatly changed and I think much is do to my participation with FMA.
4) What do you hope to gain for being a member? I hope to further improve my leadership skills.
5) What are your goals in the future? I wish i knew what it was, for honestly this is the first time I am unclear to what I really want in the end.
6) If you had to choose one word to define you, what would it be and why? Frustrated, haha, it is very difficult for my to describe myself in a word, in fact non seem to suit, will update once I can think of one better.

1) What year are you in CSULB? Senior
2) What is your major? Business Economics - Minor Entreprenuership
3) How has FMA helped you? FMA has helped me network with other like minded individuals and has enabled me to realize my own potential.
4) What do you hope to gain for being a member? The World
5) What are your goals in the future? Graduate. Prosper.
6) If you had to choose one word to define you, what would it be and why? Impetuous...because Mike Tyson said it on youtube and I thought, I would like myself a whole lot more if I was described as "impetuous"...so, here I am...as impetuous as ever.

1) What year are you in CSULB? Senior
2) What is your major? Finance Investments
and Economics
3) How has FMA helped you? FMA has opened up professional and social networks for me. It has been a great experience during my tenure at CSULB.
4) What do you hope to gain for being a member? I hope to gain internships and professional networking along with some relationships i can take with me upon graduation.
5) What are your goals in the future? My goals are to graduate in the spring and pass level one of the CFA test. After that get a good job where i can utilize my education.
6) If you had to choose one word to define you, what would it be and why? Punctual. Because i like to be on time.

1) What year are you in CSULB? Senior
2) What is your major? Finance & Marketing with a minor in theatre
3) How has FMA helped you? Made a lot of connections, gained a better grasp of the world of Finance
4) What do you hope to gain for being a member? Leadership & friendship
5) What are your goals in the future? To be an entrepreneur
6) If you had to choose one word to define you, what would it be and why? Intent, I'm intent on producing several results for myself and my life!

1) What year are you in CSULB? First semester
2) What is your major? Accounting/ Finance
3) How has FMA helped you? FMA has helped me so far by meeting other like minded people. Also, my joining the Eboard is allowing me to understand how and what goes on to run a CBA organization.
4) What do you hope to gain for being a member? have two primary goals that i would love to get out of FMA. First, I want to get my name out there in the professional world. Second, I want to also get name out in the social world in CSULB by being part of FMA, I am going to be able to meet and talk to the guest speakers that are going to be presenting at the meeting. The guest speakers are professionals in the working world. Their knowledge about the world of finance is golden. Meet and greets with the speakers are great; however, I am going to be able to make friends with other people that have similar goals that i have. If I did not decide to join FMA, I would find meeting other students with similar goals so much harder.
5) What are your goals in the future? My goal as of right now is to get my CPA. Why you ask am I in FMA and going for my CPA? I plan on taking my finance background to help me distinguish my self from other candidates in my field. Also, I want to keep my options open because if a better opportunity comes up and it is more based around finance I will take it and run.
6) If you had to choose one word to define you, what would it be and why? Passionate. I chose the word passionate because when I find something I love doing. I will give it my all to accomplish any set objectives and obstacles in front of me. I am one of those people that will go above and beyond the project set in front of me to make sure it gets done.

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