Kiril Mojsov is back in Toronto with tips to share with students new to the city. Raised here, the new master’s in economics student completed the Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) undergraduate program at Queen’s University in Kingston.

His first tip for new undergraduates? Stay flexible and be prepared for learning to change you. Afterall, an economics MA program was not always part of his plan.

“What’s unique about being here now, is that I wasn’t an applied economics or economics undergraduate student,” Kiril explained. “Going into first year, I was dead set on more of a law and policy angle. Back then, I was taking only one economics and one math course. The rest were politics and philosophy-based courses, but as I was going along my path, I just fell more in love with economics and the idea of working in policy from the angle of an economist.”

As he took more economics classes, he became “less rhetoric and more scientific” in his approach. [Read more…]