Few things frustrate me more than the seemingly unsolvable. Yet, it is those very problems that drive my curiosity and compel me to find some answer.
 
Coming into finance, I was prepared to dislike it. People had always said “you either like accounting or finance, not both”. Seeing as how I loved my accounting classes, I was prepared to thoroughly dislike this class.
 
And I was right, I did, but also, I kind of didn’t?
 
It wasn’t anything about the professor or the structure of the course. It wasn’t anything about the content we learned (it was math heavy, which I loved). It wasn’t anything about how it was graded or marked.
 
What was it, then? I had no vigor or passion to apply it. In most courses, I search for some sort of real-world application. How could what I’ve learned impact the world for the good? What does this mean for our future, our past?
 
When it came to this course, I just couldn’t do it. I loved the numbers, I loved the concepts, but working through real-life cases like the one pictured didn’t make me feel excited for what this meant for the world.
 
I was initially disappointed in myself for this, as I had always secretly prided myself on my innate curiosity in a wide range of topics. However, it’s taken reflecting back on this quarter to realize that my disinterest in the topic is actually not only ok, but valuable.
 
I have so many interests and was already knee deep in potential majors, that what I needed in this quarter was not to be overwhelmed with another option of study, but a clear, streamlined path of what I did and did not want to do.
 
Though disheartening to not like the class, I’m very grateful for the perspective on finding interest in a course of study it gave me.

Future Casey inserting herself here.... it may not make sense why a class I seemingly disliked ended up in my "up next" queue.... I guess you'll just have to keep listening to find out!