their experience. yours stuck out. >> thank you. i know i'm an unconventional candidate. it's definitely a different way to wall street. honestly, when i got the prompt about this letter, i just kind of thought about the fact that all this hard work has finally become something. i just wanted to write about it so everybody knew that they can keep trying, keep going for it. one day someone will notice. you'll get recognition. >> how did you even get this job? you're not familiar with wall street jobs. you live in new hampshire -- in maine. you take a bus to new hampshire every morning and that bus takes you to boston. how did you know about this program or jobs in sales and trading? >> i did a lot of networking. i just applied wherever. hundreds of internships because i needed it to graduate.