Tuesday, June 23, 2009
2 more days to the end of exams!! Why haven't I been prepared for this!! But I guess its a good thing. How have the exams been? Alright. I've sat for 3 papers already, and I have a hunch that I will not be doing as well as I expected, but I'm surprisingly not as depressed as I thought I would be because as it turns out, everyone had the same problem! I was commenting to my friend after today's paper, that it's the first exam in uni, that I've left at least 1 question blank in all exams so far. I wish it was because I ran out of time, but sadly it is because I didn't know how to answer the question. Singapore mentality is screaming just write something, but you have to know where to start at least.
Also, I have a strange feeling that the dean sent a memo to all lecturers to set this years papers harder, because they have not been anything like the past years. I guess its not like the lecturers have any obligation to set similar papers, hence I'm preparing for the worse on Thursday where I'm expecting a hard paper.
Having said that, there is some therapeutic feeling I have studying economics. It just flows. I don't know how to explain it, but I would be more than happy to explain bidding strategies in auctions. It's a sad life I know, but economics is interesting!! I was looking through the economic subjects offered to third year students, and I wished I could take it all. Well, not all I guess, but definitely more than my fair share. I mean how fun would it be to study regional economics, health economics, behavioral economics, environmental economics, social economics, labour economics, history of economic thought!!! Sadly, I'll just have to be satisfied with experimental economics and industrial economics. If only I didn't do a double major, I would expend all my modules on every economic subject available.
Just a random thought, the uni should award me extra marks for my motivation toward economics. Sadly, incentive compatibility constraint will say otherwise, and that my motivation to study economics is enough, such that the lecturers need not provide any incentives to induce me to want to study economics. So by this logic, I should reveal that I have no motivation to study economics, and get the uni to pay me to study!! Ok, back to studying.
Dan
11:28 pm
