I am struggling with semester 1 final exam revision now. This Essential of Finance subject is ^%%&$*@^!%$. Worse, I still have Cross Section Econometrics, International Finance, and Corporate Financial Reporting. I haven't touched anything from the rest three as in fact, I understood nothing from 10 sessions of Essential of Finance.
Now I realise something.
I took natural science course in high school, with my basic interest in mathematics. It was dilemmatic when I need to choose undergraduate course. I made some list on possible courses I could take.
* Becoming pure mathematician is hard, and I was not interested in being a scientist or lecturer in mathematics; so I dropped this.
* Doctor was a very popular and prestigious course back in high school. In fact, most of my friends took it. But my biology record had never been good. I, in average, got 50-60 marks out of 100 and needed to face resit. Once I got 80 something, all my friends got 95 something. I had never liked memorising things: mitochondria, tissues, cells, this tendons blah blah blah. Despite the fact that my mother wanted me to be a doctor, I dropped this.
* Technician sounds cool! Those who didn't want to be a doctor choose one engineering studiy for undergraduate. And yes, I have more interest on this compared to biological thingy... But my records didn't show something like that. Let's see, my physics course result had always been between ... 15 to 50 out of 100. Resit? Obviously! I was very lucky to pass grade 10 and moved forward to grade 11 with lame physics score. When I was in grade 11, my sister entered grade 10. She TAUGHT me physics at that time so I could manage to get better score during my grade 11. The result is.. 60-80, much much much better and less resit, of course!
And how could I become a technician if I was so foolish about physics. Well, I insisted to take engineering course as I really didn't want to be a doctor! But then my father told me several things:
1. What do you do when you have to hold TV remote and being a jockey? You will give it to someone else, telling that you don't know how to operate it. Don't have interest to use it.
2. What do you do when the clock is broken? Throw it away.
3. What do you do when the stove is not working properly? Call your sister or mother to fix it.
And anything else when my sister and brother spotted me doing something inefficiently in technical way. They always called me ..... moron.
Sister, how could you do something like that?? Even our cats can do it better!!
I heard it regularly.
Definitely engineering is not my thing.
Then what?
I had one interest: Economics.
Even in my natural science course, we got basic social science like economics, sociology, and history.
But hey, in my high school, people rarely choose social science based on their interest. Amongst 8 classes with each 40 students, only 1 class studied social science with 20 only students. Those who didn't get enough marks to get into natural science course ended up in social science course (well, I know some people really wanted to be in social science anyway).
So basically, it was not prestigious AT ALL to study social science. On top of that, I thought that my study related to mathematics will be useless. Hey, I was very good at maths: got the highest score, never got less than 90 ... okay once I got 80 something. I was sure I would not study this things like in the past time.
I sadly said goodbye to my favourite subject all the time, the Almighty Mathematics (oh I even write the name in capital!), to be in Accounting course. And accounting doesn't need it too much. A simple algebraic function of add subtract time divide helped me getting my bachelor degree. And I touched almost none of maths...
Until now.
Until now when I realise that this sh*tty financial thingy needs a strong base of mathematics.
I hope I could go back to study more maths for today. This problem significantly adds the basket of my quarter life crisis.
Now I realise something.
I took natural science course in high school, with my basic interest in mathematics. It was dilemmatic when I need to choose undergraduate course. I made some list on possible courses I could take.
* Becoming pure mathematician is hard, and I was not interested in being a scientist or lecturer in mathematics; so I dropped this.
* Doctor was a very popular and prestigious course back in high school. In fact, most of my friends took it. But my biology record had never been good. I, in average, got 50-60 marks out of 100 and needed to face resit. Once I got 80 something, all my friends got 95 something. I had never liked memorising things: mitochondria, tissues, cells, this tendons blah blah blah. Despite the fact that my mother wanted me to be a doctor, I dropped this.
* Technician sounds cool! Those who didn't want to be a doctor choose one engineering studiy for undergraduate. And yes, I have more interest on this compared to biological thingy... But my records didn't show something like that. Let's see, my physics course result had always been between ... 15 to 50 out of 100. Resit? Obviously! I was very lucky to pass grade 10 and moved forward to grade 11 with lame physics score. When I was in grade 11, my sister entered grade 10. She TAUGHT me physics at that time so I could manage to get better score during my grade 11. The result is.. 60-80, much much much better and less resit, of course!
And how could I become a technician if I was so foolish about physics. Well, I insisted to take engineering course as I really didn't want to be a doctor! But then my father told me several things:
1. What do you do when you have to hold TV remote and being a jockey? You will give it to someone else, telling that you don't know how to operate it. Don't have interest to use it.
2. What do you do when the clock is broken? Throw it away.
3. What do you do when the stove is not working properly? Call your sister or mother to fix it.
And anything else when my sister and brother spotted me doing something inefficiently in technical way. They always called me ..... moron.
Sister, how could you do something like that?? Even our cats can do it better!!
I heard it regularly.
Definitely engineering is not my thing.
Then what?
I had one interest: Economics.
Even in my natural science course, we got basic social science like economics, sociology, and history.
But hey, in my high school, people rarely choose social science based on their interest. Amongst 8 classes with each 40 students, only 1 class studied social science with 20 only students. Those who didn't get enough marks to get into natural science course ended up in social science course (well, I know some people really wanted to be in social science anyway).
So basically, it was not prestigious AT ALL to study social science. On top of that, I thought that my study related to mathematics will be useless. Hey, I was very good at maths: got the highest score, never got less than 90 ... okay once I got 80 something. I was sure I would not study this things like in the past time.
I sadly said goodbye to my favourite subject all the time, the Almighty Mathematics (oh I even write the name in capital!), to be in Accounting course. And accounting doesn't need it too much. A simple algebraic function of add subtract time divide helped me getting my bachelor degree. And I touched almost none of maths...
Until now.
Until now when I realise that this sh*tty financial thingy needs a strong base of mathematics.
I hope I could go back to study more maths for today. This problem significantly adds the basket of my quarter life crisis.
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