Tag: Economics
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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.…
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Lately
I’m midway through Week 2 of Spring quarter and I can say that things are, well, different. A complete change in pace from my last five quarters in the INFO program. So, what have I been up to? Banana Cream Pudding Jules made banana cream pudding using Pepperidge Farm Chessmen cookies and I can’t stop…
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Class Registration
This morning I registered for the last time as an undergrad at UW! The Spring Quarter Lineup: ECON 403 – Economics of Property Rights ECON 406 – Seminar on Economic Growth ECON 471 – International Trade Ack! No INFO! Feels funny to think of an entire quarter without hanging out in TE lab or Group…
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ECON 431 Final
So a funny thing happens on test days in ECON 431. Minutes before the exam is handed out, I’m sitting in class looking over my classmates’ shoulders noticing the amount of detail carefully jotted on their notesheets noting the inadequacy of my own. I sit and I listen as two guys in the row behind…