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September 25, 2007

The end of a chapter...


Hello everyone,

I know my writing has been sparse over the last year. A lot of things have happened during this time, some of which I'll write about today, some of which you'll have to email me to find out more about!

Hmm... where do I start?

This summer/fall, I've begun to wrap up things at the LSE as I move on to other opportunities in life. Over the last year I've begun to realise that perhaps a PhD in Economics may not exactly be what I'm looking for right now. There are a lot of reasons that have contributed to this feeling, not least the fact that it involves an understated amount of penury, and that it's quite a lonely journey professionally. There are other reasons as well, some of which I may talk about later as I keep writing on this blog (which I now plan to maintain more regularly... more on this in a second), but for now, I'm sure most of you who've been through this (read Chris, Kerry, Ngan, and others) know where I'm comign from. In fact, I'm sure most of you who haven't know as well.


It's been an unexpectedly long stay in London, given that I was supposed to be long gone after my master's. Gopika says, "you've been here two years longer than you were meant to... it's time to move on". She's absolutely right!

I'm sad about what I leave behind -- a world-class institution that has put up with my retarded craziness for the last three years, a (mostly) stellar faculty from whom I learned all the math (and the little bit of economics) that I know, and the extended family that saw me through some tough times. Oh yes... and I almost forgot one more thing... the best mentor in the world by a large margin.

I have a lot of thank yous to say... but I'm going to save you guys from all that sentimental crap. Instead, I'm going to tell you about what's next in my life. For that... you'll have to wait for the next post. Don't worry... you won't have to wait long :-)

In the meanwhile... just to let you know that two of my best friends Kevin and Nikki got married last Sunday in New York! Wooohooo!

-- Vinayak

Posted by vinayak on Sep 25, '07 at 9:38 AM | Permalink


Comments

All the best Vinayak. Take care.

Posted by: Lenina at September 28, 2007 6:13 PM

Good luck with your new path.

Posted by: Christopher Silvey at September 26, 2007 5:59 PM