I Don’t Read: Tales of an Academic Delinquent
The title explains it all: I don’t read. Specifically, I don’t read for class. No textbooks, no course packets, no online journal articles and certainly no ego-stroking HBS case studies. Amazingly (perhaps), I’ve managed to not look at a single reading-required or optional-for any of my classes since the start of this semester. Part of it is sheer laziness; part of it is to see just how long I could get by as a graduate student who refuses to read. What follows are my findings…in academic form, of course. Read more
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Are All Men Really Jerks?
While working on my stats problem set and listening to my roommate complain about how her ex-boyfriend was a total jerk, I had an epiphany.
“Wouldn’t it be grand,” I thought, “if my roommate could spot these jerks before actually dating them?” In fact, if all (straight) women and similarly-inclined men could identify bad apples even before attempting to reach first base, it would save much time and heartbreak. And so, with the knowledge of API-202A at my disposal, I decided some applied econometrics was in order. After all, if statistics can’t help people’s love lives, what good is it?
