My cough is killing me. As usual, the sore throat has progressed to the coughing lungs out stage, but here goes the day:
9-10 am - Finish revising Resource Econ lecture notes; Read text chapter 4, annotate
10-11 am - Read Macro text chapter 2; Problem Set 2 and solutions
11-12 pm - Review Econ History lectures notes, [...]
Ah…. first day of class… my life moves too fast. I can’t believe summer is already over and I’m that much closer to whichever finish line I care to use at the moment. Resource economics was interesting. Currently waiting to go to international trade and lamenting the lack of materials up on Blackboard portal.
I haven’t been this excited about course selections since the summer before first year:
ECO325 - Advanced Macroeconomics
ECO326 - Advanced Microeconomics (heard this is going to be pure game theory nightmare)
ECO320 - Economic Analysis of Law
ECO342 - 20th Century Economics History (read very good things about this course, excited)
ECO358 - Financial Economics I
ECO359 - Financial Economics [...]
[Finalized course choices below; third-year students view ROSI start time on July 2nd]
Advanced Macroeconomic Theory - ECO325 H
Advanced Microeconomic Theory - ECO326 H
Twentieth Century Economic History - ECO342 Y
Financial Economics I - ECO358 H
Financial Economics II: Corporate Finance - ECO359 H
International Trade Theory - ECO364 H
International Monetary Economics - ECO365 H
Managerial Economics I: Competitive [...]
Depending on POV, one good/bad thing that has arose from working is that running out of dress pants forces me to fold my laundry. I’ve been good for an entire month now. Experienced some ironing done at 2 a.m. Slick.
Read the ECO course descriptions page until they are now ingrained in my mind. Still can’t [...]
As I consider blogging to be part of the social networking-sphere, IE6 default browser with blocked Facebook, Gmail, Youtube, etc, makes me feel almost estranged from this blog.
I never quite continued writing after my post-calculus-exam burst of joy. I have now calmed down somewhat and is currently dreading what stats will do to my [...]
I was hit suddenly by a revelation. Actually, that’s not true – it’s a thought that had been circulating in my mind for many years now, but this time something about it became clearer – that I despised my university education, and that I was not profiting from it in the way I had hoped, [...]
Today will hopefully be one of those happy occasions where I can get some work done in the early morning hours, eat break a hearty breakfast, and effectively, hit the sack. One of those days where I completely reverse my sleeping patterns, in other words. I suppose it’s a good thing my body’s natural cycle [...]
Normally, I dislike writing about the personal aspect of life - it feels as if some part of you will be blown away by the wind, to be caught by some miscellaneous stranger and never appear in your eyes again, and so I’d rather ramble on about some recent politics or age-old philosophy as if [...]
“The study of economics does not seem to require any specialized gifts of an unusually high order. Is it not, intellectually regard, a very easy subject compared with the higher branches of philosophy or pure science? An easy subject, at which very few excel! The paradox finds its explanation, perhaps, in that the master-economist must [...]