I nside the Mind of Vassil Mihov, Associate Professor of Finance

What brought you to TCU?
The people, without a doubt. I have outstanding colleagues here, I love interacting with our students, and our staff members are indispensible. I like the academic atmosphere at TCU, the sense of community and citizenship.

I like the aspirations that the Neeley School has for the future and hope that I am making a meaningful contribution in fulfilling those.

What do you enjoy most about teaching?
My students, of course. Teaching is easily the most enjoyable part of my job. Teaching provides me with the unique opportunity to make a difference in someone's life. My students are very motivated and like being challenged. There is no greater professional reward than to hear back from my students and to learn that they benefitted from my courses. 

Once, I was on the phone with an American Airlines customer service representative. At the end of our conversation, to my utter surprise, he said: "By the way, Dr. Mihov, you were my Finance professor at TCU three years ago," and thanked me for the experience. Moments like this make my professional life truly meaningful. 

What is one thing most people don't know about you?
At TCU football games, they have a cameraman who goes around the audience and finds couples in the stands. Then they urge those couples to kiss and they show them on the giant screen in the end zone. So my girlfriend and I were recently on the "kiss-cam" at a TCU football game at the Amon Carter Stadium in front of 30,000 or so people in attendance.