August 29, 2008

• DNC is over, time to reclaim downtown

  Meeting advisor downtown in a couple of hours.

  It has not been the world’s most productive week. (Other than amazing bread baking breakthroughs. Sadly, I’ve been overrising my bread since day one, screwing up the texture.) I’ve spent some quality time with R for my research, mostly finding out how badly I misunderstood how this stuff worked… which in its own sick way, does count as progress – learning something always counts as progress.

  Luckily, we have Monday off too, because I still need to:

  1. Read tons of stuff for econ. Probably also sit down with dataset and run the list of ‘if we try to use variable X we lose Y observations due to missing values’. Order of priority is not clear, and research buddies for econ are on an epic roadtrip this week.
  2. Study for comps. Current silly plan – do some regression reading and work 3-5 MGB problems every weekend. Til forever.
  3. Research stuff – must make progress with R code.
  4. It would be awesome if I tried the homework for continuous modeling. Even better if I do the reading…

  Also (in no particular order):

  1. Make the case to the dept/graduate committee that _all_ graduate students need office space. (For example, there’s a seminar at 11:30 on Tues. If I can work from school, that doesn’t interrupt my workday. If I have to travel on both ends, that’s at least a 2 hour break, more like 3 since the bus schedule won’t fall perfectly. )
  2. Start talking to new stats faculty about a readings course sometime next year.
  3. Talk to the guy teaching functional analysis about sitting in next semester.
  4. Convince math and/or econ that functional analysis and history of economic thought should be on the same days of the week so my spring schedule is not completely insane.

  • 12:19 pm
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