Macro Midterm

Yeah, 3rd of October, Midterms.

I'd say that over the past weekend, I've become more familiar with the principle theorems and proofs of dynamic programming than I ever thought possible (basically Stokey-Lucas chps. 3-6). Unfortunately, none of this was really on my midterm.

That said, I think the only change I would've made to my preparation would be to have done even more practice problems (from previous years exams, problem sets, other problem sets somewhere on the web, etc).

For example, I had seen an old problem set (2004 or so) that had a question just like the first one on my midterm, but for some reason chose not to figure it out over the weekend. Hence, I wasn't really prepared to answer it on the exam (oh well), but did my best at 2 and 3 which I was somewhat ready for. Fortunately, our TA told us afterward that we didn't really have time to answer all of it anyways, "which is good, because then you get to choose which problems you want to solve..." or so he says. In any event... maybe there's time now to squeak out an NSF proposal... maybe.

I noticed the other day that Mike has invited most of the new RAs to participate in the blog. I think that's really cool -- and so I'd just like to reiterate that anyone should feel welcome to talk about anything they want here (including whether the Matrix is a martial arts movie or not) whether its related to econ or not.

So that's all from MN. Not too cold yet, either, so I got that goin for me, which is nice.

Gnight...