After convocation, Audrey Tam is heading to Oxford to do her Master’s in Financial Economics (MFE). The Trinity College student has now completed her specialist degree in Financial Economics, worked as a learning assistant at the Economics Study Centre at Max Gluskin House, and this year, won both the Nanda Choudhry Prize in Economics and the William T. Jackman Scholarship in Corporate Finance or in Transportation Economics. She is also a Presidential Scholar. These successes were helped along with Tam’s determined recovery from receiving her first and last C.
“University is a huge adjustment,” Tam said. “At the beginning I was having trouble adapting to the testing procedures, it was all online and the way Professor Gazzale tested was different than what I expected. I got sixty-three on my first test and it was a big shock because I had never gotten a grade so low.” [Read more…]