March 14, 2007 Matt Sheerin, '82, speaker VP Thomas Weisel Investors "Matthew Sheerin's story was entitled 'How an English Major Ended Up on Wall Street.' Matt earned his degree in journalism at Thiel and throughout his journalism career he specialized in business reporting. By 2000 he was offered a job on Wall Street with Thomas Wiesel Partners. He currently follows 21 stocks in the technology/electronic industry." ~ Matthew Moeslein, senior "I talked to Mr. Sheerin in person and asked some questions about his experience on Wall Street.  He gave me an insight of what I must do to succeed in the business world including improving my communication skills." ~ Akihiro Hoshi, senior "Matt presented a lot of information of which currently I was unaware.  He spoke about the stock market and how it actually works.  I was very interested and intrigued by his speech and hope to use what I learned to plan my future career." ~ Brandon Mundy, senior "Lessons learned: * use your connections; * think about where a particular job will take you next; * if you don't like a job, tough it out for a year and leave on good terms; * wait to attend graduate school to see if it is really what you want to do." ~ Sean Cote, senior "I asked Matt why investors act so negatively to a slight missed quarter projection for earning per share for any given publicly traded company?  He answered, 'Usually stocks are valued by these projections and if they miss them, that is a sign that things may be getting worse.  This is especially true if the projections are on the conservative side of earnings and they still miss the projection.'" ~ Alexander Miller, senior