Step 1: Read the articles. These articles contain examples of calculating opportunity costs. You will follow these examples to answer just one case from the list below to answer the questions associated with that case. PDF. files of the articles are posted in Content - Week 1 - PDF. files for the Discussion 1

1) The opportunity cost of buying iPhones and Cronuts By Ben Walsh, September 2013

2) The potential economic costs of Tropical Storm Harvey: Explained by Nathaniel Meyersohn, August 26, 2017 http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/25/news/harvey-costs/index.html

3) Unpaid internships offer valuable experience, but only for those who can afford it. by Dillon Cory - Apr 13, 2012 http://chicagomaroon.com/2012/04/13/opportunity-cost/

4) 8 Chores That Aren't Worth Your Time (So Outsource Them!) by Hank Coleman - June 16, 2014 5) Paying for Health care with time http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/10/paying-for-health-care-with-time/

6) It Costs You $43 to Sit Around the Doctor's Waiting Room

7) What is the Value of Exercise? 2,500 by Gretchen Reyholds, Sep 7, 2016.

8) Listen Planet-Money: Episode 386: Cost of Free Doughnuts https://www.npr.org/2020/01/08/794592539/episode-386-the-cost-of-free-doughnuts You are expected to make contribution in a main topic as well as respond with value-added comments to at least two of your classmates. You are encouraged to respond to other students as well as to your instructor.

Step 2: Please choose one case to answer the question from the list below.

You are standing in line. Think about what you would be doing if you are not in this line. The alternatives are infinite and computing the cost of them all is impossible. However, since you could only be doing one thing (not all of them) if you are not in this line, determining the opportunity cost requires only knowing the one thing you would be doing. Calculate (in $$$) the opportunity costs of standing in line. Think about what you would be doing if you weren't in class. The alternatives are infinite and computing the cost of them all is impossible. However, since you could only be doing one thing (not all of them) if you were not in class, determining the opportunity cost requires only knowing the one thing you would be doing. Calculate (in $$$) your opportunity costs of sitting in class. The classic example of opportunity cost is the costs of going to college. Illustrate the implicit opportunity cost of foregone income as well as tuition, books, etc. Think about whether room and board should be considered a cost of college. What are the opportunity costs of going to college? Calculate (in $$$) the opportunity costs of going to college. Discuss the opportunity costs of natural disasters. Give an example of the opportunity costs of a natural disaster. Calculate (in $$$) opportunity costs of natural disaster. Discuss the opportunity costs of your visiting the doctor's office. Calculate (in $$$) the opportunity costs of visiting the doctor's office. 6. Read the articles and create an example of opportunity cost of an activity -- not of purchase. The ideas should be supported by calculation (in $$$) of opportunity cost.

Step 3: Reflection - the students also should include a paragraph in the initial response , using microeconomic terminology, reflecting on specifically what they learned from the assignment and how they think they could apply what they learned in the workplace or in everyday