Essay On Why I Chose To Study Economics

I live around people who mostly don’t have big goals in their life. I still remember my mother once told me, “Don’t push yourself to achieve something that is too hard to achieve. Just enjoy your life as long as you have succeeded to fulfill your current needs”. That was the first time I disagree with my mother. My disagreement continued while I interested in studying economics and started to pursue an Economics degree at Universitas Indonesia. My mother thought it would be difficult for me to apply for Universitas Indonesia and live in different city without my parents’ supervision. My disagreement with my parents made me thinking is this the right choice for me to pursue economics major in Universitas Indonesia? Uncommonly, although my parents kept disagreeing with my decision, somehow I believe I could pass the test and survive to live alone in the city. Sadly, I failed to pass the test. I realized maybe I failed because I still lack of understanding the exam material since I was not a social science student. But, I kept studying hard and remind myself that hard works will always pay off. Although I got high score on simulation test, I kept failing on the second test. I was sad and confuse that day. I was sad because I

I feel blessed even more when I found that learning economics will give me a bigger opportunity to contribute in improving Indonesia’s current condition. On my first year study economics, I found that although Indonesia has a strong economic performance and an abundance of natural resources, compare to other countries in ASEAN, Indonesia is one of the countries which still struggles with low level of financial deepening, inadequate infrastructure, corruption, a complex regulatory environment, and unequal resource distribution among regions. Those problems have induced difficulty in Indonesian society to avoid poverty and