WHO YOU ARE MATTERS

My name is Steven Ashoori and I was born and raised here in Los Angeles, specifically Beverly Hills. This is my 4^th year at USC, and prior to becoming a Trojan I went to a small private High School called Milken Community High School. I am currently majoring in the Business Administration and minoring in Real Estate Development. I am also a Progressive Degree student in Construction Management, which I hope to start next semester.

            After I finish graduate school here at USC in Construction Management, I see myself working in Business and Real Estate development. My short term goal out of college will be to start off learning at a development firm or maybe even brokerage to put myself out there in the industry. My long term goal is to eventually have my own development company, with a huge portfolio of a variety of properties. Another long term goal of mine is to take over my families business and continue to manage and develop franchise restaurants.

            I am like my parents in many different ways, and take the different attributes that both of them carry. I am similar to my father in the sense of our work ethic and commitment to any task. My father also got me to think really business minded. Similarly, I am a lot like my mother in that we both carry the same type of communication skills, and also how we approach the public. On the other hand, I am unlike both of my parents because I feel that I do tasks in a much more creative way than them. Furthermore, my parents do put a lot of expectations that I do hope I succeed to make them happy; however, everything I do in my life is usually what I think is best for myself as well. For example, my parents really want me to work hard in school and graduate from USC, and I just took their expectations above and beyond by doing a minor and well as another degree in Construction Management. This was not a part of my parents expectations, but I feel like it was best suited for my career goals.

            The person who serves as a great model for myself is Warren Buffet. What I believe is so influential in Warren Buffet is the way he approaches life even with all the success he had until this point in his life. Warren Buffet who is the most successful investor in history, still lives the same kind of life he did fifty years ago and plans to donate 99% of his wealth to charity. He understands and looks at life a whole different way than any other person I know of.

            Lastly, the animal I feel a special connection with is a giraffe because just like myself a giraffe is tall and also very calm. A significant childhood connection I had with a tree would defiantly be a cactus because I remember being severely injured by the thorns of a cactus one time.