Opportunity Cost, Yo.

“Think about a time in your life where you had to choose between two or more options. Explain the opportunity cost involved in that decision.”

I'm just going to start off saying that I am actually the worst at making any kinds of decisions, whether it be something big or small. I always need someone else's opinion; half the time I won't even go with what they chose, but at least I still had another opinion. College is, of course, a pretty big deal. It's the next big part of my life. However, I think I actually have a pretty good idea of what I want to do.

The decision hasn't been made yet, obviously. I haven't even started applying to colleges. My main two choices are University of Oregon and Oregon State - so far, I'm leaning towards University of Oregon. Although I don't know what I want to major in, I've been considering pursuing marine biology, and for that the logical choice would be University of Oregon. If I were to chose Oregon State, some of my opportunity costs would be the marine biology program, as well as being separate from many of the friends I know who are planning to go to UO. 

Choosing OSU leads the same way - there will always be people I know who are going to go to a different school than me. There isn't really any specific courses I want to take that are offered only by OSU, so in my opinion, there is less opportunity cost for not going there. Deciding on a school is always difficult, and involves having to give up some things in order to have others. I wonder what the opportunity costs were for my parents when they were trying to decide on what school they wanted to go to?