sometimes i walk out of econ 142 wondering if i learnt more econometrics or more random (but sometimes awareness-raising) things... well but at least i appreciate how kc doesn't impose his views on you... he always tries to qualify that's what he thinks. just that he has slight difficulty keeping those views to himself ha. =P ok i think i'm unwittingly devoting too much blog space to 142...
should finally give some credit to Econ 181 (international trade) cos Ann Harrison's a really good lecturer, classes have been enjoyable and i doubt i mentioned anything about it so far. i really liked her presentation on Globalization and Poverty today... it's just a summary of her upcoming book... hope this link leads you to the site with downloadable chapters. makes me want to write Econ thesis on something related to things she presented...(this is random, but she also included some images to illustrate certain points she wanted to make; and i really appreciated that...i feel like i've def grown more sensitive to images and how ppl use them) but i also know that before randomly approaching her and saying can you give me thesis ideas or something... i should prob read up more on my own. which i always want to do... but i often find myself having to devote my very short weekend to finishing sch work, with hardly that much time left to read all the papers i want to read. but ya, i dun only like her lectures.. i like her style of teaching and how she presents her findings... and i'm probably being too idealistic here... cannot even find a topic for PEIS yet then now dreaming about writing a good Econ one...