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Obsession !! Excitement !! Agitation !! you name it.
My two new obsessions
Dear Friends and random readers,
Okay, its just only a 10% quiz and I am not the type of students who always get stressed or psyched easily by the test or the exam and its results like most ace students do. This evening I left the classroom a bit sad and dejected grumbling with myself along the way to my office. I spent about 8-hours of Sunday evening and Monday morning to prepare for this quiz. I guess the score will likely be ugly (compared to my peers). It's such a waste of precious time. Nonetheless, I know I will always deal with this frustrated emotion in no time, as I am a very relaxed type (in academia, relaxation is analogous to laziness, I heard someone says).
If you divide students into two types A) Stress-driven, productive, well-disciplined person or B) easy-going, nonchalant, indifferent average student (unless you are smart). With little effort to analyze, I think I am tilted more toward B than A, which is not necessarily bad for my psychological health but it might affect the academic performance..to some extent.
Enough for complaining and self-deprecation
I will divert to talking about some smarter people. So my dear readers should find it more entertaining than hearing about a so so life of stupid student like me.
My friend, Tee, just came back from a week of academic journey at Yale with Prof.Townsend (our beloved benefactor as we are paid by money from his project- and he is an extremely nice person) who has gone to give a lecture series there and still remains in a little town of New Haven. Tee is so cool to have a chance to rub shoulders with several famed Yalie professors like Paul Schultz and the like-minded colleagues at Yale, chitchatting about this and that econ theories (Yale is a good school for theory and development, quite closer to Chicago-style than say MIT...as the renowned Cowles Foundation had moved from Chicago to Yale since 1955 )
I have a great respect for Tees academic rigor and his theoretical mindset of a great economist. Had he not been under condition of coming back to Thailand, I believe he would have been recruited as an assistant professor at some top department in USA for sure. Prof. Heckman (a great economist- one of our many professors with nobel tag) just gave him a memorabilia gift as Tee being his companion when he gave lecture in Thailand last month and I guess also in recognition for his extraordinary mind as well (he got A+ in Heckmans class although officially we have only A as a highest grade).
Another news from Tee is that Townsends half Thai-American son got accepted to almost all top-ranked Econ schools as of now namely; MIT, Berkeley, Yale and yet to hear from Harvard and Stanford. I guess he will make a strike for all schools to which he applied
such a cool dude!!! (for his dad's sake, he didnt apply to Chicago). It will be fun to watch this young mans future, father & son economists (Prof.Townsend's father was also a professor at PENN) . In case you want to know about Heckmans childen, his son is (was) studying Physics at MIT.
As for an underachieving student like your authur, no words from schools yet. I guess they will be out this week. But I am not so worried about it..Que sera sera ( as I am a perennial type B person). However, Prow has been totally consumed by anticipation and excitement obviously more than myself. Today she went down to check mailbox 2-3 times in the evening and has seemed to be agitated, and overly excited . She is a Type A person who is always early and well-prepared for everything, which is good in terms of work habit. I hope thing will turn out all right soon (like what fortune teller told, I am very superstitous-so I believe him) as I don't want Prow to be too much anxious and stressed out for too long.
Anticipatingly yours,
B.F.Pinkerton
P.S.1 I feel like having a bit trouble trying to construct a journalistic-type English. I reckon American school never teaches you how to be a good writer (as opposed to UK school).
P.S.2 feel free to comment in Thai like you always do. I just want to try to improve my writing skill using my blog as a platform in doing so. You won't believe that being in USA, in American school (okay, good one as well), your writing ability won't be improved that much if you don't write it often (problem of students in non-humanities majors I guess). It's the hard fact that I just learn.
P.S.3 As an empirical evidence from above statement, my writing score for TOEFL that I just took last year when I had been in USA for almost 2 years at a prestigious school is less than a score of myself as a Thammasat student who never set foot abroad 3 years ago. Do you believe that ? ...that is why I want to practise more ..not because I want to show-off or has something to do with my egotistic side, please understand na krub:)
P.S.4 My more psychotic pal from USNews webboard tried to call me today (as he found my website and phone number). He said he is really frustrated with the waiting and wants to call professor to ask the result but he fears that he will be looked like a pest, so he chose to call me instead :)
P.S.5 Today we have snow again!!
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