Liam Mohan: Trainee Actuarial Consultant

Liam Mohan

4th year BSc MMORSE 2015

Trainee Actuarial Consultant with Hymans Robertson LLP, London

Coming into my first year at Warwick, I had a completely different view on mathematics than I do now. At A-level I much preferred my pure maths modules, whilst not really enjoying the statistics side of the subject – which I found to be a process of churning out answers without any understanding of the hows or whys. Not long into my first year however, I found out that pure maths was no longer concerned with calculations but rather rigorous proofs of quite abstract ideas and this difference is something I wasn't prepared for and as such, really struggled with. Statistics modules on the other hand, in complete contrast to A-level statistics, developed ideas motivated by examples from finance, biostatistics and medicine to name but a few, which I really enjoyed. There is also the option of studying a language as part of your degree, which I have availed of every year.