Many many years ago, among the overwhelming study possibilities I had (I had "downsized" my options to 14 choices), I set myself to study Economics, because it was the perfect way to combine mathematics and social sciences.It gave me the balance I needed since I liked both.
Along the years I actually deepened my knowledge of Mathematics by studying a minor on the subject. This proved to be very very useful, I got into this university because of that.
During this year, at the MSc, I only had these "mathswitheconomicsnames" exercises. I never wrote an essay, I never read an article without regressions in it: actually, I once tried (in vain) to read an article that seemed to have more numbers and symbols than letters. After a very abstract class I remember the comments of my classmates were: And WHERE is the people in this model? No social science... there were no people even if we were talking about development! I felt the aim of program was to make me a "problem solving machine", but now they expect me to write a 10000-word dissertation.
In the end, this is THE question that torments me the most:
*How can I find balance again?*
Ph.D programs in Economics only get more and more abstract. No thank you.
Given that this path is taking me away from the balance I wanted,
Economics loses 2 -1 vs other fields that I don't know yet.
