Category: school
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Day 55: Last Day of Classes!
As benefits the last week of the semester, it’s been a busy time. I submitted a thesis proposal and now I get to wait until July when they tell if the project has been approved. I also took an exam today, which had my new least favorite exam structure, where we have to write two…
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Day 86: In Which I Haven’t Bitten An Economist All Week, Can I Have A Cookie Please
This one is mostly complaining about neoclassical economics On the upside, it’s dark enough to get some lovely stars in the morning, but they photograph even worse than planets. On the other hand, we started Environmental Economics on Monday, and I’d actually forgotten how crossed-threaded I get with economists. I’ve been tempted to start four…
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Day 80: In Which It Gets Darker and Rainer
So it is full and true dark when I get up for school these days; the sun rises about 9:45am, but it doesn’t clear the mountains until about 1 or 2 in the afternoon, and then sets at 4:30pm. It gets a maximum of a handspan above the horizon, and the low angle sunlight makes…
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Day 2: In Which Alice Actually Attends An Orientation
as opposed to hiding up a tree like I usually do (in my defense, I didn’t want to go to my college orientation, so I didn’t. problem solved). I have met the rest of the people in the program (about 20 in my year, so about 40 all told), the two program directors, and most…
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Day 0, Part 2: Somehow There Are Still More Airports
wow this is going to be the Worst counting system. forget starting at 1, I’ve got 2 zeros.I did indeed stay in that chair for about 7 hours, which sounds bad until you consider how I usually spend my day, and honestly a one-room airport with soundproof headphones is a fine way to spend an…
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