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What is your major? Just take some finance courses and ace the courses.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Get a copy of Ross, Westerfield if you actually want a good finance textbook or something. Otherwise, just do well in finance courses and take a couple of modeling courses

Then you can get a foundation in investments and investment math depending on how strong you are there.

From there, there's textbooks on Fixed Income and all sorts of other things.

 

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