Posts on Life Decisions
April 22, 2006
Back with a clear head
It's nice to be back home after a week of vacationing. A lot of work is waiting for me, starting with my mock exams this week, a repeat performance of last year's EC102 revision lectures, and the ever near final exams! That said, the last week was just plain awesome... and I'll try to write about some of my journeys this week (though I still have to write about my Syrian adventures!).
My head also got a lot of much needed fresh air, and I've come back with a decision on what my life will look like next year! I could ramble on, but I guess it's time to let the cat out of the bag -- I've decided to stay on and continue here at the LSE as an MRes/PhD student (who will hopefully be done in the next three years). To me, this place has become a home I'm loath to give up, and was a front runner for first choice at heart from the very beginning. The extended family that I've found here, along with the exciting academic environment I've experienced, and the faculty I've worked with just made it a natural decision for me to spend the next three years of my life here. I won't even start about the city. The flipside is that I have to pass two of my core courses this year, but I hope that should be within possibility (fingers crossed). I love it here, I don't think there's any other way to put it. I'd strongly encourage anyone with an offer here to give it serious consideration... the LSE is an outstanding institution to study in and the experience will be worth every minute of your investment.
Well... there you go... that's that... no need to say more! Have a nice weekend :)
Posted by vinayak at 10:48 PM
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April 12, 2006
More escapism
I'm off this weekend to Málaga for a mini family reunion. Normal programming will resume in about a week. I've been getting lots of email asking me what the next chapter of my life looks like, and all I have to say for now is that I'm still waiting on some ends to be tied before I make a final decision. I've been quiet for a while now, but things are beginning to fall into place... hopefully by the time I'm back from Spain I'll have something interesting to talk about!
Happy Easter everyone... see you next week!
(P.S. I hope the new look goes down well... this is the last makeover for a while yet!)
Posted by vinayak at 10:27 AM
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October 17, 2005
The short story of my life
Now that I finally have a few minutes in life to spare, I thought I'd go over what I've been upto the last few weeks! I had a really nice trip home - it was great to get some rest after the hectic summer of teaching. I've started up my year as a visiting research student, and decided in the end to stick with two core economics courses (advanced macro / advanced micro), and a course in stochastic processes. The general idea is to get some of my core requirements out of the way at the end of this year. A lot of people I spoke to felt that the extra math / stats was probably better picked up after a clearer research idea was in place. In a way this made a lot of sense for me - given that I'm already in graduate school; I don't want to be inefficient about my course choices (doing things for now that will not be useful in the immediate short run). However that said, I'm a hardcore believer in the fact that extra math will never go to waste. In a way, I think my course choices reflect the balance of thought. Stochastic processes is the one subject I am DYING to learn. I know I have immediate and ready uses for the stuff I learn there.
The other benefit to taking these courses is that it gives me a little more time to do two things closest to my heart. One is developing the EC102 Wiki, an idea that's been floating in my head for ages and finally took shape into a real experiment (more on this in another post soon). The other is a general desire to help with meaningful research, and hopefully start writing a paper towards the beginning of next term. Given the way my courses are structured, I should hopefully have enough time to do these things.
Anyway, that's the quick update from me! More posts soon...
Posted by vinayak at 6:21 PM
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July 5, 2005
MSc
I made it.
The upside: From total and utter nonsense at undergrad, I managed a kickass grade in relative terms.
The downside: I'm Indian, so the usual philosophy applies: I could have done about two million times better if I had studied harder, and mooed around a little less.
The upside: I'm done with my course.
Another upside: I'm just beginning.
Posted by vinayak at 2:15 PM
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Hardly a few hours left
I'm counting down the hours to my grades coming out. For all the mental abnormalities that the author of this blog displays, stress loads are THE highest on the day the grades come out. My blood pressure Dornbusches the moon (Dornbusch is a common Economics synonym for 'overshooting'), my heart rate automatically self increments by some exploding exponential value, and my world generally comes to a halt.
Some people pretend like they don't give a shit, but my humble hypothesis is that every ounce of shit that their able bodies can produce in a given time period (we could graph the impulse reaction function if necessary) has been aptly, and more importantly deftly redirected towards the effort of controlling the urge to jump off a bridge.
Hence the term "I'm scared shitless."
There's your bit of Vinayak philosophy for the day...! Bring it on examiner man!
Posted by vinayak at 5:10 AM
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