Blog 3: There Are Some Things Money Can't Buy
Just as the famous MasterCard marketing tagline goes, “there are some things money can’t buy” and the value I added to my life by choosing to go abroad was most certainly one those things. Its virtually impossible to put a price-tag on the experiences I had in Tel Aviv because price is really just a “piece of information that signals how much potential value may be derived from consuming something.” (Babin/Harris, 2016) So, while the charges I made abroad were inevitable and sometimes unavoidably excessive, if i had to clearly compute how much this experience of a lifetime was worth, well, the only way to describe it is that it was truly “priceless.” Because my abroad trip was only four and a half months, I actively seeked out ways to pull hedonic value from each and every day spent there (Babin/Harris, 2016) This meant trying new foods, making friends with the local 'Tel-Avivians,' gaining as much knowledge as I could from my studies, and immersing myself in t...