always start my problem sets too late bc I assume we haven’t covered that topic yet but then it turns out that we are never going to cover that topic and were meant to just work it out
probability/measure theoretic formalism is low-key really funny…like, trying to be super precise but you’re saying stuff like “almoooost suuuurely”/“almooooost everywheeere”
every time I tell someone I study econ I add “but like I don’t know anything about inflation lol” but the jokes on me bc now I’ve accepted a 5-year funding offer and inflation is…very high(?)
americanisms I have embraced:
- math, singular
- fall, instead of autumn
- semester, instead of term
- '…ize', instead of '…ise'
- '..or', instead of '...our'
americanisms I haven’t embraced:
- mm/dd/yyyy
during first-year macro, david romer took 2 minutes of each class to give us career/life advice and one of them was straight up "do not ever look at or post on ejmr"
optimistically drawing a little square below some algebra, with absolutely no idea what i've just done and whether it completes the proof in my problem set 🔲
started this year typing up lecture notes in latex and adding them to a git repo...today i'm watching a recording from last week at 1.5x speed, taking screenshots every couple of mins and dragging them into a folder on my desktop
p cool how at primary school you work for a couple of hours and then they send you outside to just run around and yell for 30-60mins 🤔 something to think about when you wfh
extremely British moment recently where I reached into my pocket to remove what I assumed was an old receipt but it was actually an earl grey tea bag? how did it get there? idk
that part of admits’ visit day where they meet older years, look deep into their eyes, search for their soul and discern how joyful they truly are … “so, is department culture good here?”
following union-won salary gains, berkeley econ faculty just confirmed plans(?) to reduce department-funded top-ups (which “supplement” grad student salaries)… email says “Since salaries are now higher, lower top-ups are needed to reach the total funding amounts we committed”
heard an english accent in a coffee shop and decided to interrupt/strike up a convo about being british 🇬🇧 ironically it was the most american thing I’ve ever done? v uncomfortable for both of us
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! i’m preparing a lecture on data viz (in stata) for an “intro to econ research” class. any resources i should know about? much appreciated 😊
going on woodland walks while listening to a podcast about mindfulness/"slowing down" at double speed, and then lying wide awake in bed at night listening to a nature sounds app 🙏🌔
brother told me he stopped watching Everything Everywhere All At Once because “it got too stressful”…turns out he didn’t even get to the multiverse stuff…he just got really anxious about filing taxes
just remembered that on the first day of my 2-year pre-doc i made a typo entering my name in front of the IT guy so i just used a misspelled username for the entire RAship bc i was too embarrassed to tell him