And so it all begins...

Well, here goes nothin.

I don't know about the rest of you, but my classes start tomorrow. On the upside, I only really have classes on tuesday and thursday. On the downside, I am in class for ALL of tuesday and thursday. I'm not sure if this is good or bad, but I'm pretty sure that it means I'll need to be more disciplined on my own on MWF to get some real work done. I think it will be a nice way for me to spend one day trying P-Sets on my own, and another 2 in my study group, which is still developing.

I realized tonight, paying bills, that I just spent $500 on 6 books, and it's odd that one of the books I just purchased I probably could've just taken from the Fed last year (That would be Simon's copy of An Introduction to Classical Econometrics). I suppose it's a good thing that I've already read most of the book we're using for Econometrics. We shall see.

I am excited to get going, though I've seen my first Macro problem set, and it is appears to be a long, grueling data assignment meant to introduce students on how to find data. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss DLX already.

Mike, thanks for trying to keep this thing going. What's the deal with Sager? I've tried getting him involved, but to no avail -- is he just freaking out about NSFs? It's too early for that. I guess we've still not heard from Ted or Ben (who wrote me recently to say he was arriving in Chicago last week I believe) or Cartier, for that matter. Also, Mike, as a moderator of this blog, you can invite more people to sign up to post -- just look for it under the settings tab.

I hope to check in sometime at the end of next week when the dust has settled a bit.

Best to all,
Ariel