bin laden's message today was kind of moderate for him, i thought. normally it's all that death to america stuff, but today's message didn't have any of that. he didn't make any overt threats to america, didn't say he was going to attack, nothing like that. instead he talked about politics and diplomacy. he said that if americans converted to islam ( Read more... )

stephen colbert's wrist cast sold for $17,200 on ebay. to be fair, though, it was signed by a lot of famous people and all the procedes go to charity. plus it came with a free wriststrong braclet. but still... if stephen colbert's wrist cast is the reason you donate $17,200 to charity, i think you might have some issues ( Read more... )

i did it. i dropped econ 501.01 and added math 131 ( Read more... )

second post of the day. that hasn't happened in a while. anyhoo, here's my grades:

econ 444 - econometrics A-
econ 556 - globalization B+
hist 152 - american hist B+

quarter: 3.43
cumulative: 3.22
econ: 3.5

i'm awesome

i'm honestly considering dropping my international studies major and just sticking with the economics major and picking up a second concentration. right now i'm just going for a concentration in international economics. i think i might like to take some classes in monetary and financial markets. maybe game theory, i don't know. i was also thinking ( Read more... )

i turned in my econometrics paper today ( Read more... )

a few notes on things that i have been thinking about recently or have happened recently ( Read more... )

hmmm, my power's going to go out soon. it went out a few minutes ago, and the thunderstorm's gotten stronger since then, so... yeah ( Read more... )

Somehow, i ended up with a 67% on my econ 556 midterm. this was the class i was thinking about dropping because it was so easy i was bored. but then the teacher sends out an email, part of which said "fewer people attained the high B/low A range than I thought would, considering I provided a good picture of what would be on the exam.and i'm ( Read more... )

i got my second homework assignment back in econometrics today, and i got a 2.67 out of 4, which is a 67%. the problem is that i didn't actually get 33% of the questions wrong. as a matter of fact, i went back and counted, and i found that i had only gotten 5 things wrong out of the 36 things that she graded, which comes out to 87%. 67 = not 87. ( Read more... )