ATHARV GUPTE

More than anything, I see myself as an explorer.

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Six months after my parents moved from India to the USA, I was born. While I may have frequently ignited disaster zones in my parents' apartment with childhood toys, I am sure that they knew my adventurous soul.

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And adventurous I was. By the age of 5, I littered my entire room with a tangle of Thomas the Tank Engine train tracks. Around that time was when my affinity towards drawing took off with skyscrapers of scrapped paper, marred by doodles of roads and trains.

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However, one day, I wondered why all of our world's transportation systems are built where they are. This led me to dive into traffic data, my first experience with statistics.

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From this one act of exploration is where my love of statistics, mathematics, and analysis come from. Nearly all work today involves at least one of the three. Through my actuarial internship experience, my cost-analysis research, and my studies at Penn State, my life is a continuous strive for discovery.

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I am a Penn State Student, an analyst, a fundamentalist, and most importantly, an explorer.