Do You Know the Muffin Man?
I’m here enjoying my favorite cinnamon-swirl-so-buttery-it-soaks-thru-napkins muffin when I concluded:
The only thing better than a Costco muffin is a Mostly Muffin. <3
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Oh That Feeling
I have diagnosed myself with Senioritis. Jules is impressed that it is the seventh week of my final quarter of my senior year and I am just now feeling its effects, which I suppose is somewhat noteworthy. But rather than dwell on that, for now I’d like to provide you with evidence of this self-admitted state of mind. As such, I bring you…my International Trade notes:
Figure 1. Note the high intensity of notes and graphs. And yes, I use crayon.
Figure 2. A snapshot of my notes a week or so later. Note the inclusion of the snowman. But if you’ve sat by me in class before, you know that doodles such as these are common.
Figure 3. As time progresses, so does my artistic zeal. Note the use of colors.
Figure 4. Finally, a shot of my notes from my last lecture. Note the doodle-to-note ratio has gotten out of hand.
Then again though, these samples are taken from my ECON 471 notes. A bi-weekly, two-hour microeconomic course that I am not fond of. That aside, four more weeks!
Freakonomics
I was going to wait until I finished the book to write about it, but knowing me it’d collect dust in my “Draft” folder and never be published (or written for that matter). Anyway, yesterday Ryan surprised me with a book! (Yay presents!) The title: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side of Everything. And I can’t seem to put it down. Steven D. Levitt (boasting an undergrad from Harvard and a PhD from a MIT) takes the otherwise dismal science and applies it to everyday occurrence hoping to explain… well, everything. And he’s sincere about it.
What I think is most enjoyable about this book is that it’s written in plain English. I’ve read the reviews and between the praise are complaints that the book is too “dumbed down” to reach a broader audience. I think it’s because I’ve been spending the last seven weeks digging through hundreds of pages of economic verbiage to find “the point”, I’ve gazed at econometric functions trying to decipher the meaning of their p-values and translate all these deltas, betas, and alphas into concepts like “economic welfare” and “technological growth.” I’ve gotten sick of the as what Orwell indentifies as verbal false limbs and pretentious diction. It’s to the point and it’s easy reading. Would go so far as to say it’s even fun.
And now to continue reading, am soon approaching the chapter, “Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live with Their Moms?”
More Birthday Partying
So the celebrating of spring birthdays continued last weekend. Friday night Ryan and I went out to Claim Jumper in Alderwood for Angie’s birthday dinner. It was a way good time and Claim Jumper was impressive. I’ve seen out-of-this-world proportions before, but this was just ridiculous. Like Super Mario Bros. 3 Giant Land ridiculous. I’ve never seen so much bread pudding in one order…a memory I’ll be sure to cherish.
Saturday was productivity day. An officer meeting over fried chicken at Ryan’s, a hot dog run at Costco followed by cleaning, laundry’ing, and getting stuff done for work. This getting stuff done’ness continued til Sunday afternoon when Ryan picked me up from the lab and we hung out at his place. That night Jules and I left to B&O Espresso on Capitol Hill for Casey’s 22nd birthday party for drinks and desserts (and another monstrously long table). We all were griping about missing the new Family Guy but we couldn’t miss birthday girl’s day.
Me trying to convince Ang we should take a staged conversation photo
Casey’s Birthday Group Photo
And there you have it.
Capoeira - Classe Quatro
Today I learned the Maculele in Capoeira. I also learned that I’m not very good at it.
