I never thought this day would come. I just sent in my final paper. I hope I have done enough editing to pull an A in this class. That would make me very happy. Anyway, since this is definately my last blog post for this class I thought I would leave my words of wisdom. [...]
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So I probably have about an hour and a half more of work on this paper…(mainly because I keep switching tenses when I am writing and editing so i have to go back and fix that)… so this could be one of the best moods I’ve been in while writing a post. Don’t get me [...]
So all the assignments have been completed, the chapters have been read, the rough draft has been written, and my presentation is finished. Now, all I have left is to finish editing my final paper. I started editing it a week ago; a week later, it is not finished. I think after a whole semester [...]
Now that I’ve finished my Spanish presentation, I’m going to sit here and think about what causes my variables to be bad. I figure if I do nothing but think I might get somewhere. I might even draw some graphs on the board, I figure if Nash did it on hard topics, maybe I can [...]
When professors used to say that you can usually see a difference between the approach freshman take on a class, to that the upperclassman take on a class, I could see where they were coming from, however, it was not until this class that I fully understood what they meant. As a freshman, I would [...]
Now that Erin’s left the econ lab where we’ve spent the past four hours I am starting to fall asleep… after spending the whole four hours typing in data into EViews (because it was not typed in excel vertically but instead horiztonally) my eyes are completely blurry and I think I’m getting ready to call [...]
So today I sent an email to the World Bank to hopefully obtain the last few pieces of data that I needed. Within an hour, they emailed me back with all the variables I asked for and the website to look up any other data I may need for my topic. I still have to look over the [...]
today I spent five hours in the library looking for the rest of my data. I found about 60% of it. When I went looking for the rest of my variables, I found that three of the four variables I am still looking for were all grouped together into one variable. I am trying to figure out [...]
I hate subscription fees; just when you think you have found your data, you have to pay $200 to see anything past the first five years.. boo. Anyway, I was lucky enough to find some other data that I hope will work. I have three more variables to find which aren’t going to be easy [...]
I think my problem right now with the economic analysis project, other than finding data, is my model. I look at the model and see exactly what it says, but I can’t figure out how the variables I am looking at can be included in the model. Maybe i’m putting too much thought into it and it’s really easy or I’m just [...]
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