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本帖最后由 cheesechan 于 2015-11-24 05:47 编辑
mincyZ 发表于 2015-11-23 16:25
深夜可能心情起伏比较大,我只想对学弟学妹说,别因为一两个特例能申请到不错的项目,就对经济master报有无限的乐趣和信心,觉得econ真好玩好像也很好申,商科做不了MIT mfin申请不上可以拿duke econ ma保底(真的有学弟学妹这么和我说过,我也是听的非常醉人)。ECON master在找工作上没有优势,甚至有劣势,商学院的学生有更多时间更多资源networking,econ光课程难度就很高,身边很多同学都抱怨没有时间去social/networking。而econ phd在你没上过高微高宏高计之前,真的别说自己对这门学科有多喜爱。至少我本科期间学的micro/macro/metrics和真正phd level的课完全不是一个概念。如果说对学术的喜爱的话,至少读一读recursive macro/kreps micro之后再考虑是不是真的对econ那么喜爱。唯一庆幸的是在本科期间有几个特别好的老师愿意一点点带着我,我也发现自己是真的很喜欢自己做的subfield,至少当年那些老师逼着我大三一年天天自学data structure天天自学analysis才能看懂paper,到现在也让我熬夜的时间稍微短了点,上phd level的课也勉强能跟得上。而经过了这么多熬夜度过的夜晚,我对我想做的subfield依然充满了热爱,想想也是感动了自己。
這個不頂不行.
Once upon a time, before I really go to my master in economics, I believed I will be interested in monetary, in addition to econometrics and financial economics. well, even though I was a financial engineer and thus are somehow used that modeling approach, and had intermediate macro before, I feel like "what the fuck" when I really go to the project or exam in that at master level.
honestly, i guess your case is really very exceptional. 很少人真的能清楚自己最想要甚麼的.
according to my experience, UG讀了business + 一丁點economimcs, and said interested in economics research的, 十居其九數學背景(not the technical skill but rather the mindset)是走不下去的. 葉公好龍而矣.
因為真的有興趣的, 就如你一般一早做了備準, 補回the missing part.
P.S. 方法太多了: exchang semester, summer semester一堆數課, 提早找了research assistant而不是去corporation internship打雜........
of course, only really motivated student will think of this but not the normal one.
mincyZ 发表于 2015-11-23 16:25
深夜可能心情起伏比较大,我只想对学弟学妹说,别因为一两个特例能申请到不错的项目,就对经济master报有无限的乐趣和信心,觉得econ真好玩好像也很好申,商科做不了MIT mfin申请不上可以拿duke econ ma保底(真的有学弟学妹这么和我说过,我也是听的非常醉人)。ECON master在找工作上没有优势,甚至有劣势,商学院的学生有更多时间更多资源networking,econ光课程难度就很高,身边很多同学都抱怨没有时间去social/networking。
雜雜幾點的補充 on selection:
1. 打算要big name master for career, 又上不了MIT Finance之類, 用economics master補底不是不可行, 但苜要條件是該econ master要夠soft. UCLA的master applied econ 就是一個good example. 千萬別去solid academic master, 要不GPA爛掉是必然的.
當然, 別嫌"水", 嫌水別去讀master in business / finance / management.
2. 要soft 的去business, 多留時間networking / internship. 當然top business school都是極少有pre-experience MS in business的, 尤其是北美. This is indeed a signal that the job market don't vaule this that much.
3. 如果打算學technical skill的話, 除非沒其他選擇, 盡量別去economics 要去STEM如statistics / CS. (or accounting if one count it as technical). economics is too theoritical.3. 當然, 的確是有些工作economics 是最合適的. e.g. 各類policy research, central bank, IMF等的也很會要economist, but given the visa status...
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