It is no secret, the number of posts on this blog have been few and far in between in the last few months. School has been crazy. My thesis is finished, I presented it at a research symposium. I’m ready to be back in Minnesota, blogging again, and hanging out with good friends.
My finals load is not too heavy, but I can’t wait to graduate!
Okay, let us overcome the extreme lack of blogging lately. Personally, I’ve hit a stretch of business in the past month, which will probably not subside until graduation. On that note, I believe seniors at the UofM should be graduating pretty soon, including Mr. Schoppe. Congratulations! Unfortunately, my graduation is not until June 19 (f-ing quarters).
But, I want to let everyone know that my brother, who is graduating from high school, and I will be having a party on June 27th. I’ll be releasing more details later and have a formal invitation process, but I just wanted to give everyone a heads up. My parents had a pool put in at the end of last summer, so it should be a lot of fun. I just need to harass a bunch of people in MN to come.
Anywho, everyone get blogging again!
It’s spring break and I could not be happier to have classes over! My most difficult final, econometrics, went fairly well. I answered all the questions (which I’m quite happy about), so we’ll see if the answers were right.
Monica and I are heading west. Monica wants us to end up at the Grand Canyon in Arizona. I want us to end up in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. We’ll see what happens.
We stayed the night in down-state Illinois and we trucked through Missouri today and decided to do some sight-seeing in Kansas City. I’m excited, there is a really nice area called the Power and Light District that I look forward to exploring and getting a few drinks.
I hope everyone is having a great break (even though Minnesota lost).
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This is something I’ve been working on for a little bit. It did not turn out quite as amazingly as I’d hoped. I plan on reworking it with some things tschwab has sent me and making it a bit funkier. This is what I am dubbing the classic mix because it maintains 90% of the classic rock feel. I have to give a shout out to tschwab for helping me on this and I can’t wait to drop some of his guitar riffs in here.
I have a deadline of tomorrow, so this is where the progress is ending for now.
Hope you like it.
…is my only motherfucking option, failure’s not!”
-Eminem
This weekend, the NU Mock Trial team went to Waukegan, IL to compete in the Open Round Championship Tournament. This was composed of the qualifiers from a series of Regional Tournaments (including Milwaukee and Joliet…I believe). The top 8 teams from this tournament go onto Nationals, in a very lackluster Des Moines, Iowa.
Northwestern took first and second place, qualifying both teams to go to Nationals. This has been an amazing year for us, I really enjoy competing and I’m glad we get to go on. I think we have a real shot at winning the national championship. Rumor has it that one of the top-ranked schools, Harvard, did not end up qualifying any teams.
Looks like this thing is wide open for some Wildcat domination. Anyway, I’ll keep you posted, as this is the extra-curricular that has been dominating by time as of late.
Well, this is my second to last set of final exams for undergrad. Overall, I’m pretty excited about that. But as Dan discussed in his last post, it is not exactly the best time to be graduating. Nonetheless, it certainly signifies a transition to something new. Needless to say, I will not ever be reattending an undergraduate institution after I do this. I’m taking economics degree and running with it.
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Working on this project really exposed my lack of music talent. Using sounds from http://www.freesound.org I transformed and processed them and put it all together into this. The theme of the piece is transit-based noises. This was hard. Working with non-musical noise in a musical sphere is tough.
My classmates did some interesting work on this project…This is what I ended up with.
If you need the full version, buy me a beer and send 10 Euro cents over paypal.
I’m pretty sure, I have posted about this before. If you think that I haven’t see Line 1. If you have some inkling, then get this patch:
I’m an economics major, who happens to be graduating this year. I have decided to write a Senior Honors thesis. That basically means I’m doing a legit research project and will write a big paper about it.
I have chosen to conduct research in the area of transportation economics. I’ve worked in transportation for several years and find the economic aspect of it interesting. Specifically, I’m going to analyze gasoline price elasticity of demand and the elasticity of demand for vehicle miles traveled (VMT). This will mean I’m going to run regressions with the left hand variable being Quantity of Gasoline consumed and Vehicle Miles Traveled.
If you’ve had a statistics course, you should be following along okay so far. If you’re interested in doing econometric research download the program STATA and start inputting some of your own data.
I’m gathering data now and will post some of the results as I get them. The end goal being, of course, to impress you with my mediocre econometric knowledge.
Thumbs up to the Northwestern Mock Trial team’s climb into the top five nationally.
This week, The NU mock trial team came in fourth in the nation after three fall tournament victories. Six new coaches, including former team member, Clare Bergeron (Weinberg ‘07), have fueled the rise in ranking. With NU still not a top ten university and only fifth in Big Ten football, the mock trial team provides the university with a ranking it can truly be proud of. In the end, the mock trial team represents the school as only great legal advisers can: superbly.
One of my classmates mixed this…I thought it was worth posting
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