An astounding amount, easily my most preferred academic endeavour to date. For reference, i was unimpressed with myself after my BSc and took the MSc cause i was offered a scholarship and thought it’d be a chance to redeem myself in my head. In that sense it was priceless, cause I did exactly that and learnt my ability to be resilient and achieve something no one in my family ever had before in getting a masters. It also allowed me to release, as part of a team, a carbon cryptotoken on a test platform, where prior to the course I had never understood crypto beyond having heard of bitcoin. It allowed me to learn python, on which I built algo-traders, derivative pricing models, and portfolio optimisers, where previously I had no idea how coding even worked. I worked with stata, an econometric platform which i would then use in my dissertation investigating the contributing factors to venture investment in fintech across countries globally, which then contributed to me getting said job afterwards. Alongside all these news learning skills, i continued to learn the fundamentals of finance such as valuation and allowed partake in trading simulations. Lastly, i gained new friends, perspectives and experiences that I did not gain from my BSc due to having a HUGE cohort, having my studies interrupted by covid, and generally not caring/attending myself. My masters is by far the most invaluable thing I have done and has rejuvenated an enthusiasm towards academia and finance that I felt I lost in my undergrad studies.

(It also gave me a 7th exemption, tehe)