 Hi, we're the fall 2021 econ peer advisors. My name is Arianna I'm a sophomore and I'm from India. I'm majoring in economics and finance. My name is Emily I'm from Gloucester mass. I'm a econ and calm double major and I'm a senior. My name is Tammy I'm from Malden mass, and I am a public health and econ double major. Hi, I'm Sean I'm from shoes very mass. I'm an econ major with minors and math and Chinese and I'm a sophomore. So what has been your economics journey into the major. My journey with economics began in high school when I chose it as one of my classes. It was one of the only classes that I actually found interesting and look forward to. And as the time went on, I began to really enjoy the content and found it very relevant to the real world. My economics journey also began in high school, I took it my senior year, and then I ended up transferring to you mass at the start of my sophomore year and when I was choosing a new major. I just kind of settled back into it because it was kind of exactly what I was looking for broad and you could focus on different topics. I also took econ in high school and I really liked it but it didn't start as an econ major when I started at UMass and added it the second semester of my freshman year. It was kind of always in the back part of my mind but I did still really like it since I've taken it in high school. I also took it in high school. Yeah, I started out just taking one class and then I ended up doing a lot of like outside reading about economics and just fell in love with it. And then by the time I figured out I was going to UMass I knew they had a really good econ department. So I was excited to study economics here. Then your favorite classes in the econ major and your favorite economics program experiences. Yeah, so my favorite class that I took was intro to international political economy with Professor Kevin young. It was a really cool class that was and it was about an area of study that I didn't really know existed before I took it. It basically looked at how the global economy was governed. We studied like the IMF and the UN and how they all play a part in the global economy so it was really interesting. What are other things that you do outside of the econ major. I'm also a member of the women in business club through Eisenberg and I'm also a member of the whips community service committee, which we spent our time outside of campus life just volunteering and local organizations to kind of give back to the community. Also a member of the UMass key and board club which is the largest club on campus, and we get to take some super fun ski trips during the winter time, and then I'm on an intramural field hockey team with my roommates. I'm part this isn't really outside of economics but I'm part of the UMass undergraduate economics club, and we meet every week and we talk about different economic issues and we have debates, we talk about like picking classes at UMass. And yeah just kind of life as an economic student at UMass and it's a great way to meet people who are also interested in economics and it's a lot of fun. Do you have any advice for other students considering the econ major. My advice would be that is to just try it out. Many of the core classes, micro and macro. They have great professors and they have very engaging content. You might not even know it how useful economics can be to you in the real world. So, even if you don't end up liking it, at least you've learned something helpful. Well, thank you for your time.