Dr. Greenlaws ECON 300

Last week I stayed up all night (literally)  to finish my Econometrics project.  My project was a real eye-catcher: “Salaries of Major League Baseball Players.”  At the time I chose my project I was knee deep in no data (in case you were wondering in philosophy class we get to talk about “nothing” and “nothingness”).  I knew Dr. Stageberg didn’t really care about how interesting the project was, so I chose the most boring, most simple topic I could think of (please don’t tell him until I get my grade back).  At about 5:45A.M. last week (that’s what time it is now) I was about to give up and just turn in a crappy paper.  Fortunately, I was able to finish one last cup of coffee and get the project done.

Well tonight (or, this morning) I realized what I had learned this semester.  I needed both Econometrics and Economic Analysis to gain this knowledge.  The most important aspect of these projects was what Dr. Greenlaw taught me in the first week.  Ask yourself: “Is this topic interesting?”  If you are interested in your own topic all other things seem to fall in place.  So what if you don’t have any data?  Who cares if you don’t quite understand your theory and your professor knows ‘the answer’ and torments you and never tells you the answer until there are four weeks left in class and then you finally get it and have to work your ass off because you didn’t understand it earlier and you just want to scream?  F*ck baseball salaries.  That is boring.  There is no getting around it.  I was able to stick with my project and see it through (well, almost) because I was interested in the topic.

I am tired.  I might read this tomorrow and decide it is too cheesy and delete it.  I had fun this semester.  Good luck guys, I’m out.

Peace,

Will

PS Dr. Greenlaw when is that absolute latest we can turn this project in? haha.  I am asking for Govinda and John because they aren’t sure they can have it by Friday morning.