I'm a finance student at Penn State, but most of what I've learned came from building things outside the classroom.
I grew up in the Bay Area, which means I grew up around people who build things for a living. That probably shaped how I think more than anything else. Startups weren't abstract to me, they were what people around me actually did.
I started my first venture before I turned 18. Since then I've built across software, hardware, automotive, and real estate, not because I had a grand plan, but because I kept finding problems I wanted to solve and no one was stopping me.
Finance is how I think about risk, value, and timing. Entrepreneurship is how I act on it. The two things sharpen each other.