Journal topic #3

In my opinion, the opportunity cost of getting me in into PAS was the time that I can spend with my parents. For the opportunity cost of this particular class is to give up an easy class that can raise my grade point up.  The class that I gave up to study was Stage Art class. In the class, student do not required taking any exams and they do not have to do any assignment after the class ends. This way class makes the students easier to get good grades.  If I consider that I have very little control over many of the decisions that got me in to PAS, I would thought that the decision was made very rationally.  The reason why I think that the decision was made very rationally was because I do not have any other Chinese public school that will accept me as their student.  I spent the past two years studying in America, and I have not gained the credit that local schools wants, so they would not accept me as one of their student.

If I analyze the costs and benefits, I do not think that the benefits would outweigh the cost. I still cannot be sure about the benefit outweighing the cost, in other words, I have to really work hard so that I can be able to determine whether it can be balanced out or not.  If I had been in total control of my own life, I would not have made the same decision that I made earlier last summer.  Although students in PAS will eventually get into good American colleges or universities, I still doubt that if all the time and money is worth to spend on a single goal of life—higher education and wealth.