<p>Yes, UCLAri, I'm aware that I need some "soul searching" while doing my BA :)</p>
<p>Indeed, I also know that most economics students get into the job market and/or pursue an MBA instead of going to grad school.
It's just that due to my nature, I don't want to work so soon.
I want to research, invent or discover something!!</p>
<p>I think J.M. Keynes' famous quote more or less expresses my feelings:
"The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back."</p>
<p>On the one hand, before and while I was at university, I've already had some "vocations" or ideas that I would have liked to work on and research on my own, if that's what you mean... like uhm: propose new economic models with up-to-date knowledge on human nature (and therefore I'd have to do some research in fields like Neuroscience or Cognitive Science)</p>
<p>On the other hand, I would just like to explore something entirely unrelated to the subject, not for the sake of researching but for the sake of learning, enhancing my personal skills.
Especially in the media technology, where I had some practical experience while I was still at high school (web design, audio/video editing, radio broadcasting, animation programming).</p>
<p>I somehow have the impression that at high school I earned more pocket money programming websites rather than explaining the meaning of the numbers in the "Financial Times" newspaper...</p>