Conjecture

Back in June, I conjectured "Some would call it a pyramid scheme."

It's neat to see this supported by a real paper.

"Health 'Reform' Is Income Redistribution
Let's have an honest debate before we transfer more money from young to old." - WSJ

Math

Though economists have learned some lessons during the past year, math remains the focus of a graduate education in economics.

Math hasn't been this core to my daily existence since Mathcounts in 8th grade. And I am enjoying it. But I will always maintain an equal respect for intuition.

Respect

From Wikipedia:

The transpose respects addition.

Math. respect.

Food and Caveat Emptor

In a triumphant return to student life, I picked up a meal plan for this semester. It turned out to be a bit different than eating at Simmons Hall at Penn State.

The food was about the same quality, but the experience was not. There were no longer heaps of dorm floor mates milling about, and my stomach had lost some elasticity. So I decided to forget the original plan of one giant meal per day.

In cancelling the plan, I also found that it was quite expensive. I had signed up for $1,385 for 113 meals and $250 flex dollars (which were not very flexible). After I used about 8 meals and $10 flex dollars over the first two weeks of class, they returned me $1,200 upon cancellation. It works out to over $20 a meal!

Update: Turns out I can get the employee meal plan. This will cost under $6 a meal. Much better! And this is the last post titled "caveat emptor" or otherwise filled with mundane complaints.