I was out tonight at a little get together thrown down at the beach with some girls I knew from Laurier. They were in town and wanted to see the beach so I said sure no problem and took them around. There were 4 people all of which were going for various degrees. I was asked my degree after we started talking about teachers at our school and I told everyone I was in economics.

It is very funny when you tell someone that you are an economics student... They always give you a "no shit" face, followed by a reason that they really hate economics. But today one girl I was walking with just said "what makes you enjoy taking economics". And until then I never really had to tell someone why I enjoyed it, I usually just defended my choice of degree.

It got me thinking why I am in economics.

I came to the conclusion I like it because it is something that you see everyday but know very little about. The more I learn the more I can apply to life. You hear economic terms everyday, but really how much do you know about them? For example, people hear the term interest rates everyday. Yet, they know very little about the variables would influence change, or how banks use them to their advantage for not only personal use but what people term 'border use'. I could never learn something I couldn't use in everyday life.

I have a few people who read this blog who are in economics, here is my class list so we can be in the same classes. (I left out the bullshit courses)

Fall
33 - Adv. Public Spending
63- Game Theory & Application To Globalization
31 - Econometrics Research and Seminar

Winter
22 - Adv. Macroeconomics
23 - Adv. Microeconomics
25 - Adv. Econometrics
11 - Special Topics In Mathematics
62 - Educational Economics

Listening To: Say Anything - Belts