Macroeconomics, Education Developments, Sydney Beckons
I have just finished a six-hour macroeconomics exam at the London School of Economics; you know a fine institution of tradition where your entire grade depends on one exam (who the hell does that in this day and age?). It was not easy, and despite the time allocated and the fact it was a goddamn endurance test, and a difficult one at that, I didn't answer all the questions. My brain was just too fried. Making the outrageous assumption that I've actually passed, that will put me at the halfway point of my graduate degree in economics, leaving econometrics and microeconomics to go which are probably my weaker subjects. Maybe I should have called it quits early a couple of years back when I did reasonably well in public economics and used the credit for someplace a little more reasonable in its assessment methods. The next related step is to integrate my knowledge in macroeconomics and public economics into the Wild Geese Flying project initiation document for Saturday. Making the world a better place, at scale, requires grounded theory and a small mountain of evidence. Especially if one is asking for a not-insubstantial fiscal investment. I always wanted to make a big change to the world and this is going to be my best damn shot at it.
In more optimistic news the meeting with my MHEd supervisor went very well, so after rewriting the literature review in its entirety it's full steam ahead for chapter three on Methodology and Methods. I should also mention that I finished delivering content for the University of Rojava English-language course, and have written the exam for those brave, dedicated, and fortunate enough to make their way through the entire course. On a related topic, tomorrow I have a job interview for the new position that has opened up at work that is so well-suited for me that the only thing that's missing is my name on the job criteria. Without giving too much away, it also has something to do with research computing and education. After all this, it's off to Sydney next week for the John Lions Distinguished Lectures at the University of New South Wales, that includes presentations by Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan, Rob Pike, Andrew Tridgell, and Andrew Tanenbaum. For people not familiar with the history of global IT infrastructure over the past fifty years or so these names will mean little. But I am not engaging in hyperbole when I say that they utterly changed your life, seriously, in the background of everything you do online. It would be interesting to calculate how many life-years of happiness they've contributed on a global scale. This entry was originally posted at https://tcpip.dreamwidth.org/317341.html.
In more optimistic news the meeting with my MHEd supervisor went very well, so after rewriting the literature review in its entirety it's full steam ahead for chapter three on Methodology and Methods. I should also mention that I finished delivering content for the University of Rojava English-language course, and have written the exam for those brave, dedicated, and fortunate enough to make their way through the entire course. On a related topic, tomorrow I have a job interview for the new position that has opened up at work that is so well-suited for me that the only thing that's missing is my name on the job criteria. Without giving too much away, it also has something to do with research computing and education. After all this, it's off to Sydney next week for the John Lions Distinguished Lectures at the University of New South Wales, that includes presentations by Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan, Rob Pike, Andrew Tridgell, and Andrew Tanenbaum. For people not familiar with the history of global IT infrastructure over the past fifty years or so these names will mean little. But I am not engaging in hyperbole when I say that they utterly changed your life, seriously, in the background of everything you do online. It would be interesting to calculate how many life-years of happiness they've contributed on a global scale. This entry was originally posted at https://tcpip.dreamwidth.org/317341.html.