Jonathan Aguilera

Majored in Economics, Minored in Applied Mathematics
Colgate University, Class of 2021
From West Hartford, CT

I am a junior at Colgate University majoring in Economics and minoring in Applied Mathematics. I am currently taking classes remotely through the University of Wollongong this semester. I have an interest in actuarial science, data analytics, and photography. Since whether through raw data or RAW photos, I want to see the world from a different perspective.

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Education

Colgate University
Conard High School

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West Hartford Resident Jonathan Aguilera Graduates from Colgate University

Jonathan Aguilera, of West Hartford, CT (06110), is a graduate of Colgate University in the Class of 2021. Aguilera, a graduate of Conard High School, majored in Economics at Colgate. Aguilera re...

September, 28 2021 - Verified by Colgate University

Conard High School Graduate Jonathan Aguilera Earns Dean's Award for Academic Excellence at Colgate University

Jonathan Aguilera, a member of the Colgate University Class of 2021, has earned the fall 2020 Dean's Award for Academic Excellence. Aguilera is a Economics major and a graduate of Conard High Scho...

March, 19 2021 - Verified by Colgate University

Conard High School Graduate Jonathan Aguilera Earns Dean's Award with Distinction at Colgate University

Jonathan Aguilera, a member of the Colgate University Class of 2021, has earned the spring 2020 Dean's Award with Distinction. Aguilera is a Economics major from West Hartford, CT (06110), and is ...

November, 20 2020 - Verified by Colgate University

Conard High School Graduate Jonathan Aguilera Earns Dean's Award for Academic Excellence at Colgate University

Jonathan Aguilera, a member of the Colgate University Class of 2021, has earned the fall 2019 Dean's Award for Academic Excellence. Aguilera is a graduate of Conard High School, and is from West H...

April, 20 2020 - Verified by Colgate University

Conard High School Graduate Jonathan Aguilera Earns Dean's Award with Distinction at Colgate University

Jonathan Aguilera, a member of the Colgate University Class of 2021, has earned the spring 2019 Dean's Award with Distinction. Aguilera is from West Hartford, CT (06110), and is a graduate of Cona...

September, 17 2019 - Verified by Colgate University

Conard High School Graduate Jonathan Aguilera Earns Dean's Award for Academic Excellence at Colgate University

Jonathan Aguilera, a member of the Colgate University Class of 2021, has earned the fall 2018 Dean's Award for Academic Excellence. Aguilera is a graduate of Conard High School from West Hartford,...

February, 28 2019 - Verified by Colgate University

Conard High School Graduate Jonathan Aguilera Earns Dean's Award for Academic Excellence at Colgate University

Jonathan Aguilera, a member of the Colgate University Class of 2021, has earned the spring 2018 Dean's Award for Academic Excellence. Aguilera is a graduate of Conard High School from West Hartfor...

August, 01 2018 - Verified by Colgate University

Activities

Colgate Actuarial Society

Founded a club to inform students about the actuary profession, improve on their soft skills through communication workshops, and offer tutoring sessions for exams P and FM. The club connects with Colgate alumni to set up webinars and other professional development groups at Colgate such as the Colgate Consulting Club.

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Men's Club Volleyball

Learn and hone volleyball techniques such as serving, hitting, and blocking. Participate in scrimmages with the Women's Club Volleyball team. Participated in a tournament at Ithaca College with other Volleyball clubs in the central New York area. Defensive Specialist overall which emphasizes being the middle blocker to prevent or slow down hits.

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Work Experience

Hardlines at Target

Stocking merchandise and ensuring all items are in the correct section. Aid guests in locating items. Assist cashiers when needed.

June 2018 - Present

Projects + Publications

Level up Your Marketing: Strategies from E3

As part of my marketing apprenticeship for Murphy Strategic Marketing, I had to write blog posts centered around marketing. I'm passionate about the video game industry so while watching the Entertainment Expo, a trade-show to reveal new and upcoming video games, I decided that there were a lot of effective marketing techniques used there.

July 2019 - Articles

Two Halves

Final project for my Digital Photography course. I expanded on my own personal style by making a photostory of a dark relationship. From the start, I wanted to explore how tape can be used to obscure or replace the humanity of a person.

May 2019 - Classwork

Changes in Consumer Spending

A final presentation for my Intermediate Macroeconomics course. Jake Bilodeau, Sherlock Shi, and I explored how consumer spending was affected by exploring trends in the labor force, consumer confidence, and revolving credit. Overall, we saw that the Fed should not alter interest rates due to the positive trends seen. If action absolutely had to be taken, it would be to raise interest rates in preparation for a future recession where the debts accumulated would hit the economy hard.

December 2018 - Presentations

Because You Speak to Me in Words and I Look at You with Feelings

For Legacies of the Ancient World, I had to explore how The Odyssey and The Epic of Gilgamesh compared and contrasted. I focused on how the concept of love was expressed by the shaky relationships the protagonists were involved in. Although it may be easy to see the women in these relationships as just pure evil or toxic, I see it as a more complicated web of conflicting feelings that each party did not understand.

October 2018 - Classwork

A Comparison of a Self Paced Education Styles: Video and Reading

This is a copy of my AP Research project where I examined the effectiveness video learning and book learning had on students who went through a self-paced education path. This is a very rough research project and the actual experiment done gives faulty results at best due to the complications experienced. However, writing this paper was a meaningful experience as I went through a full process of gathering sources, designing an experiment, and evaluating my results. The Prep Journal provided demonstrates the above sentiment clearly, offering a general timeline of all my thoughts and emotions throughout the process. I have not edited the content of this paper in order to preserve the original quality of the submission.

Research Projects

Goliaths Hate Him! Local Author Exposes the Secret to Legitimate Power

This is a short essay I wrote for the Advanced Literature course I took during my senior year in high school. In it, I discuss how legitimate power comes from the personal connections authority has on their subjects. I use Malcolm Gladwell's book David and Goliath and Hiroyuki Okiura’s film Jin-Roh as the backbone of the argument. These two works provide clarity on why power can shift around so much through their depictions of betrayal, chaos, and sometimes order. I have not edited the content of this paper to preserve the original quality.

Classwork

Zika Virus in Brazil

This is a research paper I wrote for my First Year Seminar course on diseases and outbreaks. I examine the 2015-16 Zika virus epidemic in Brazil using a wide variety of epidemoiolgoical and biological data. I plot out how Zika may have been introduced, how Zika spread so quickly, and the long-term consequences of those who were infected.

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