I simultaneously love and hate UChicago! What should I do?

DavidTaleb
Sat, 05 Jul 2014 15:20:00 +0000

I love the school’s academic focus! The curriculum is amazingly expansive and I really value that a lot. The perspective that one can gain from such an education, is second to none. The community is amazing, one can really learn a lot just by being around other people. I mean, if conservation can burst into passionate discussions about Godel Incompleteness Theorem, it is hard not to learn.

BUT! As a person who plans to major in economics, given that is my passion, I hate the Chicago economic school of thought. It doesn’t make sense to me at all! In particular the idea of rational expectations. I mean, I literally loathe it. For example, when I was watching UChicago Coursera online course on Asset Pricing, and realized that a great deal of the course assumptions are derived from the UChicago’s economic school of thoughts, I instinctively started swearing at my computer and started repudiating the professor’s line of reasoning.

I really love UChicago. Infatuated is more of the right word. But I am afraid I will end up miserable studying economics. What should I do?