Umit Mansiz
MA, 2001
My education in economics provided me in depth understanding of the factors driving the economic growth, public debt, and the effective use of public financing.
Greetings from Cairo! My name is Umit and I graduated from the Economics Department with an MA degree in 2001. I would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation to the faculty for providing an amazing learning environment and top quality education. Particularly, I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to Dr. Talan 陌艧can for being a mentor for me during the most challenging times as a newcomer to Canada. He was always inspiring, supportive, and motivating and showed sincere care and kindness. I made significant life choices under his guidance that had real and long-lasting effects in my future.
I remember the heavy math including formulas that did not even fit in two blackboards that most of us find extremely challenging. Indeed, the math was complicated but thanks to my undergraduate training in Statistics, I was able to handle them well. However, the true challenge for me was to approach the economic theories by shifting my mindset; rather than seeing them as pure mathematical solutions, I trained myself to understand the meanings behind them as complex social relationships. Economic theories put people鈥檚 behaviour at the core of its rigorous discipl