Thursday, February 7, 2008

trials of being a grad student

i've grown tired of empiricially deriving the consumption function and helping people with advanced calc as opposed to, well, doing something. i spend a lot of time crunching numbers these days and reading about other people's work on the same. while numbers are useful and all, even a mathematician/economist grows tired of relying on numbers. also i get tired of listening to people talk about numbers that have very real consequences for people... without really thinking of people. it's been a while since i've had time to read about anything enjoyable or felt as though i were learning about something i cared about.

i know i need certain tools, but... the consumption function? what could be more boring.

i think it's possible that that might be enough to send me back to camp carl this summer. i can't give much during the semester, but maybe i can give my summer.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

hi
let me know when you know what you're doing for the summer. i'll be in akron for at least 2 wks this summer. so, we will def have to spend some large chunks of time together.

by the way, we turn 23 in one week ....in case you forgot.

Anonymous said...

uhm yeah, I know exactly how you feel, we should hang out.

Anonymous said...

WOW! I didn't know you guys had the same birthday! There are so many freaking "birthdays-shortly-after-Valentine's-Day" in the greater Akron region (I'm including Arizona in that).