This week was my first week as a BYU-Idaho online student. I knew it will be a little bit difficult because of my work, but I never exactly knew at which level. The first day I needed to wake up early in the night, at midnight, to do some assignments because there was many others assignment to day. I remember I took six hours to do only one exercice. I started it at midnight when most of people were still sleeping and ended it at 6 am in the morning. I couldn't beleive I spend all the night doing only one exercie whereas there were many others exercices to do. I also had to go to the work that morning despite I didn't sleep all the night. To be honest I wanted to give up. I felt unable to deal with the courses requirements and my work. Then came the Econ 150 course; In his lesson 01 it's talked about the things we should consider when we are about to take a decision. I learned that there're some things called the marginal benefits and the marginal costs. In simply term, marginal benefits mean the things we will receive if we decide to do something and the marginal costs if which trade-offs it is necessary for us to do about that decision. It is said that if the marginal benefits is higher or equal to the marginal cost, it's means taking that decision is the best thing to do.
That understanding made me pounder about my situation. I started to think deeply about the benefits I will get if I pursue my Bachelor degree as BYU-Idaho online student. I realized that I will get academic aknowledges that will help me move forward at work. I could apply to a higher post because I would have the required degree to do so and hope to get more wage. That will increase my financial situation. Most important I will strengthen my spirituality. But what about the trade-offs I needed to do? I realized that I will have less time to entertain. I will have less time to sleep and do many things I used to do during free times for at least the two next years. Considering the two sides of this decision, I came to conclude that there are more benefits to pursure the courses than stopping it. For me, the marginal benefits were higher than the marginal costs. So I decided to continue my journey as BYU-Idaho online student and I am willing to trade-off whatever things to achieve this goal.
Because of this experience, I have learned an important principal about what to do in order to take a good decision: I should compare the marginal benefits to the marginal costs and take the decision only if the first one is higher than the second one.