Syllabus week: the first week of classes where college kids don’t pay a whole lot of attention due to the fact that class involves reading the syllabus…. at least that is what we hope. In reality, the homework starts day 1 and does not stop until the end of finals week. I am quite optimistic about this semester even though classes only began two days ago for several reasons:
- I only have four class (as opposed to 5 the last semester I was on campus) and no labs (as opposed to 2).
- Blogging is an assignment. In most classes when you hand-in a writing assignment only the teacher reads it and unless you bring up the topic in class, you never really discuss what you wrote. Blogging allows for a larger audience to read and discuss what you have written.
- The required text for Game Theory actually made me laugh out loud today and had a whole section devoted to gender pronouns.
This blog was specifically created for Economics 350- Quantitative Methods of Economics and will primarily have posts for that class but on rare occasions like today when I don’t really have a whole lot going on, I may post on various other topics. Overall the semester looks promising (we’ll see how I feel in a week when everything really begins).
Fun Fact of the Day: more than 10 people a year are killed by vending machines
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Lauren vs. Econ 
Lauren, I’m so glad to hear that you’re excited about this project. Thanks for sharing the link above, too. I’m a huge proponent of both college and doing things that don’t necessarily “use” your college career. Good luck this semester. –Prof. Fletcher