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Wall Street is the kind of place you expect to find accomplished, competitive people like Danielle Pashun, but the graduating senior in the College of Business Administration (CBA), delighted her thesis adviser with something extra: special thanks for her support and commitment, which extended as far as meeting over spring break.
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“She brought me flowers,” said Donna Rapaccioli, Ph.D., the interim dean of CBA and an associate professor of accounting, “which students her age wouldn’t think to do.”
The Queens native, who took two city buses to the Rose Hill campus every day with one of her longtime friends, knew she wanted to study at Fordham the moment she visited.
“I saw the campus and I just fell in love with it,” said Pashun, 22.
Beginning in July, the young woman whose college experience included membership in Beta Gamma Sigma (the business honors society), Alpha Sigma Nu (the Jesuit honors society) and FUEL (Fordham University Emerging Leaders) will be making a longer commute, all the way down to the financial district, to Goldman Sachs, the investment banking and securities firm.
Pashun, who majored in accounting, interned there last summer and will work in the derivatives and operations area, booking trades and supporting the traders.
Her new job will require long hours, getting to work before 8 a.m. and staying well past 5 p.m. “They tend to kick me out around seven,” said Pashun, recalling her intern days. But working hard is nothing new for her.
“I’m very school minded,” she said, as evidenced by her 3.96 GPA.
She took part in CBA’s G.L.O.B.E. (Global Learning Opportunities and Business Experiences) Program, which is designed to prepare students for multinational careers. Pahsun studied Spanish, was exposed to international trading during her internship at Goldman Sachs and wrote her thesis on international accounting and how it was converging (or not) with U.S. standards.
| Pashun is the first in her family to obtain a four-year degree, which she plans to supplement in a few years with an M.B.A. |
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Pashun is the first in her family to obtain a four-year degree, which she plans to supplement in a few years with an M.B.A., preferably from Fordham, “so I can feel complete,” she said. In the meantime, she will remain at home with her parents, down the street from her grandmother, who comes for supper every Sunday. Of Italian descent, the family is very close, although Pashun’s younger brother will be straying far from the nest by starting at Notre Dame this fall.
This summer, Pashun hopes to attend a few Yankee games, squeeze in some pleasure reading (including The DaVinci Code) and take in a few of the sites around town that she hasn’t quite gotten to, despite being a native.
“I live in Queens and people say, ‘You’ve never been to the Empire State Building?’” Pashun said, laughing.
She hopes to correct that soon. Then it’s off to the working world. Goldman Sachs should be on its toes.
“She’s going to be a success,” said Rapaccioli, who called Pashun both warm and considerate yet focused and driven. “She’s going to be an asset to their portfolio.” |
