{"id":45,"date":"2010-10-05T10:30:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T18:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissabenjamin\/?p=45"},"modified":"2010-10-24T21:51:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T05:51:55","slug":"why-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissabenjamin\/2010\/10\/05\/why-commerce\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Commerce?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Grade 12, it seemed like on an hourly basis, I was being asked about my post secondary plans. &#8220;Commerce, eh? What made you decide to go into business?&#8221; Apparently some people hold strong preconceived notions about business students. I had been told we are everything from pretentious to snobby to down right greedy. Of course, the core concepts of Business largely revolve around money: the earning of it, the spending of it, the circulation of it- and with that it is not abnormal to subconsciously associate these principles with unethical qualities like selfishness and corruption. Though some enter Sauder looking to snatch a big-shot, high paying job after graduation, I know I am not the only one who is attracted to the overall life skills that Business offers. I believe that business is present everywhere. It&#8217;s not only relevant in financial aspects of life such as grocery shopping, buying stocks, or selling a house. Business skills are <strong>social <\/strong>skills, <strong>interpersonal <\/strong>skills, <strong>decision making<\/strong> skills, <strong>analytical<\/strong> skills, even<strong> self-managing<\/strong> skills. It is much broader than just the academia spectrum. Commerce is, in my opinion, an all encompassing area of study that has countless real life applications. So yes, I am am a proud first year Sauderite. And I hope to USE my education in the real world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Grade 12, it seemed like on an hourly basis, I was being asked about my post secondary plans. &#8220;Commerce, eh? What made you decide to go into business?&#8221; Apparently some people hold strong preconceived notions about business students. I had been told we are everything from pretentious to snobby to down right greedy. Of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2774,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissabenjamin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissabenjamin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissabenjamin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissabenjamin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2774"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissabenjamin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissabenjamin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissabenjamin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissabenjamin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissabenjamin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissabenjamin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}