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I am back in London! My family was with me for the week before the Lent term began, which was enjoyable. It would have been better if the weather had been better, Darwin’s house had been open, and I wasn’t horribly sick during most of it. I spent New Years on the plane to the UK, which was less fun than I thought it would be. I missed several parties I would have liked to have attended, each populated by people I see less than I’d like.
There is a medium-good chance I will be an intern at the FDIC this summer. This is exciting and potentially very goofy. I sort of feel bad because one of the big reasons I’ll get the internship is because my old man got a job for the wife of the fellow who I will be the interning for. Social networks are hard at work. I feel less bad because Mark Granovetter says that is how most everyone gets their jobs, and I believe him, so this is natural. The internship seems goofy because I think I will have to dress up and take the metro down to work everyday, where everyone else is dressed up. Any casual observer will mistake me for an adult!
This term is starting off extremely well. The philosophy lectures I attend are now going to focus on decision theory, intentional explanations, and evolutionary explanations. My abstract algebra class is a marked improvement over real analysis, and the professor is quite famous too. My head is full of philosophical problems, and more than enough confusion, which I plan to bring to livejournal in the weeks to come. Oh boy!
There is a medium-good chance I will be an intern at the FDIC this summer. This is exciting and potentially very goofy. I sort of feel bad because one of the big reasons I’ll get the internship is because my old man got a job for the wife of the fellow who I will be the interning for. Social networks are hard at work. I feel less bad because Mark Granovetter says that is how most everyone gets their jobs, and I believe him, so this is natural. The internship seems goofy because I think I will have to dress up and take the metro down to work everyday, where everyone else is dressed up. Any casual observer will mistake me for an adult!
This term is starting off extremely well. The philosophy lectures I attend are now going to focus on decision theory, intentional explanations, and evolutionary explanations. My abstract algebra class is a marked improvement over real analysis, and the professor is quite famous too. My head is full of philosophical problems, and more than enough confusion, which I plan to bring to livejournal in the weeks to come. Oh boy!