Economics Degree

My name is Rebecca Slowinski, and I'm double majoring in math and economics. So I took an economics class just to get an elective out of the way. And looking at the research and talking to my professor about that class I realized how cool the practical application of math it was.

I started thinking about majoring in it and realized that it fit so well with the math major, I just decided to go for it and do the double major. And it's been one of the best decisions I've made in college. As soon as I became an economics major, I knew research was something that I was interested in.

So I asked one of my professors if I could do an independent study for econometrics which is basically the research methods that you use in economics. I just love being able to like figure these things out on my own and then go to my professor with question and really feel like I was ironing out the issues and understanding what I was doing, but going at my own pace.

One of the best things I think about the economics major is the faculty that they have. When there are times that I'm completely lost and feel like my future is hopeless, I can just go to their office. Their door is always open, they will sit down and talk with me for hours and just encourage me and get me through it.

So I'm actually working with Collat Tutoring Lab now. And it's actually a resource that provides free tutoring to students. And it's just a walk-in service so they can come in and get tutoring in any of their business core classes that they'll be taking. I think another great asset to the business school is the advising that we have.

While my adviser has to advise probably 200 students, I never feel like she doesn't have time to sit down and help me. Being able to have someone that I feel like is always there for me has been a really great resource for me. My ultimate goal is to get a PhD in economics and then go into academia where I can do research and teach other students economics.