My name is Mark Merante and I am currently a senior at Fairleigh Dickinson University with a major in Finance and a minor in Computer Science. However, I grew a deep interest in the field of Data Science. This stems from my love of math, solving puzzles, and my first discovery of coding in Python during my freshman year of college. During my time in college, I took it upon myself to learn the maths (basically advanced statistics) of machine learning as there were no courses offered for the specific subject. Throughout my journey as a future data scientist, I have developed algorithms manually without the use of python libraries and have conducted a number of analysis/research during my free time. I am currently looking for an internship role as a data analyst/scientist.