I wonder if we were roommates... college was in Texas - UTA.
I chose economics after a long period of taking classes with no plan, and eventually econ was the most interesting. I started off taking engineering classes, but I couldn't handle the professors. The work was fine... the professors made it unbearable. They were genuine autists. They felt pressured by the class sizes and the school telling them to flunk as many students as possible, because a high failure rate is the mark of a "good" engineering program. So there were surprise projects that I didn't budget for because they didn't tell anyone, and 1st day exams that affected the final grade, despite covering material that we were expecting to learn in that class, and when you go talk to the prof you find out that they are super frustrated and shit rolls downhill. It was mostly the unforeseen costs combined with the disrespect that made me leave that.
I'm making college seem like a bad experience, but it wasn't. It was great. I became me. I found my interests and partied enough to not need to party any more.
After leaving the engineering department, I took classes all over. I taught myself Korean and got the school to start a Korean class, even though I never took it. I got into a Russian class without having to pay for it, which I'm quite proud of, even though I forgot most of it. My favorite class, by far, was Linguistics 101. They teach you how to crack a language without a dictionary or anything. It doesn't always work, but the final exam was a paper with paragraphs in several languages, and we had to translate them. That was fascinating.
I'm explaining the linguistics stuff to get to economics. I saw it as a language. And it made me feel like I didn't waste all those math classes. My only goal was to understand things, and linguistics and economics both satisfied that. Unfortunately, econ also scratches the itch to be prideful, and it wasn't until recently that that got... fixed... Anyways, I still feel that econ is fundamentally a language. It's literally the language of value. It's quantified psychology. I can't believe they don't make econ students take psych classes... So I sometimes think, if (very big If) I ever do a graduate degree in econ, I'd try to merge Jungian archetypes and shadow with the first principles thinking of Austrian econ. I'd be labelled a crackpot for sure, but fuck it.
Fuck it is a great stopping point. But I guess an even better stopping point is, God is great and his grace is the most humbling thing in the world. I needed to say that after talking so much about myself.
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