After three terms of MBA, I must say that I only caught the "study" bug again this term. Because of new developments at work (I'm moving to a new job, yeah!), I decided to enroll part-time and take just one subject - ECOMAN. Needless to say, I'm tempted to do it part-time all the way! Having a full load and the weekly drive from Batangas to Rockwell and back (usually every Wednesday) stressed me out.
Anyway, I love Economics and though I must admit that I need to infuse more Econ-related literature into my reading list, the subject always fascinates me. I wrote 3 papers on the following subjects: Perfect Competition, Privatization and Comparative Advantage & International Trade. Economics is a pleasing subject to research because there is no scarcity of resources - no pun intended. In fact, text and web-based data are simply overflowing that I had to make an outline each time I started to write just organize my thoughts - something which I almost never do.
My final paper - The Economics of Oil, is very timely. With my move to Shell's Supply business, writing about oil econs reinforced my knowledge. It was actually funny that during handover, I recognized terms such as "netback pricing" and actually knew what they were about and what their margin impacts to the company were. I put in a lot of effort to my final paper (mainly because I crammed) and spent a whole weekend plus three long weekday nights to finish everything. However, I am happy with all the information I got from the research - I feel like I'm ending this term a smarter guy. No matter what my final grade will be (I'm hoping for a 4.0!), this was definitely one of the best terms ever!
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