Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general.

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In this episode, Colorado Monkey shares his path from a non-target undergraduate state school

to an investment banking role at a top bank. We learned how he was able to suddenly unlock

10 interviews after striking out on his last Super Day early in his junior year, as well as how he was able to suddenly unlock 10 interviews after striking out on his last Super Day early

in his junior year, as well as how he was able to take a similar mindset to help him land

in private equity less than two years later. This is a long one, but it's also a real fun one.

Hope you guys enjoy. Okay, Colorado Monkey.

Thanks so much for doing this.

Yeah, no problem.

Thanks for having me.

And for sitting through all the technical little difficulties.

We made it.

We've started.

So, yeah, give the listeners a short summary of your bio.

It would be great.

Yeah, absolutely.

Originally from Denver, Colorado,

stayed in state for school. I wanted to be close to home, but it was far enough away from

the parents that made sense. Went to a non-target school. Faced a little bit of hurdles

trying to get into banking. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do when I first started in

college, but just through people that I knew and through some fraternity, friends, and meeting a couple

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