Some much needed motivation

Dear FSEGA first-year students!

It's sort of the middle of the exam session, and except a lucky handful you are already demotivated by the monotony of the learning-exam-learning routine or by bad results. Don't worry though, I'm here to give you the extra boost you need!

Why should you learn?

This question must have surfaced in your mind in the last few days over and over again.

If you came here without being particularly interested about economics or business, just because you had no good alternative, every day is probably worse than the one before it, as you feel that you are forced to listen to and memorize a whole bunch of data that says nothing you. It'll probably end in an existentialist crisis, you leaving this university after some time and regretting the time wasted here.

If you came here with a strong interest in everything that is supposed to be taught here, the first few weeks must have been very exciting and interesting. Coming from one of our wonderful high-schools where you've been taught a bunch of irrelevant and useless stuff, finally learning only what you are interested in must have come as a breath of fresh air. That is until...

You realized that most of what you are taught is, again, useless - lots of theories, none of them really explored enough to give it meaning and use, things that either don't function in real life, or are useless to all but a very small niche of economists.

If there was anything that truly might have been at least interesting it's been ruined by the fact that the respective teacher either doesn't really care about your personal development, or has no professional experience outside the academical circle, and thus is unable to show the real-world applications that are really important to you.

And when you look at the mess that you are supposed to learn for the next exam, you wonder..Why? Why should I get more than a passing grade? Your position on the rank list has little to no impact on your future life. The scholarship is quite minimal and awarded to very few people, the dorms are seriously overcrowded. and the studying fee... Well it's good if you don't have to pay it, but for most of you it's not a major problem if you have to.

Not to mention that getting the diploma guarantees nothing in itself, and you do get hired it'll probably be due to connections, or extra-curricular activities.

So why should you learn?

That is a question you must answer.
Good luck in your exams!

Dr. Eckstein Filip
Learning Expert