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TBK: Thanks alot for the infos on office space.

Let me jump in abit since you guys are discussing about AMS courses.

I am also interested in taking the sequence at the AMS too. However, I am still alittle bit cautious of adding more course load to those required so likely I will keep this option open until before the classes start or something but it is good to think about it early. It seems that you recommended taking AMS 205B in the first year??? Also, for the upper years, usually, when you do you guys start taking more AMS courses beside AMS 205 in the first quarter when there were no Econometrics yet. I am interested in Monetary Macro stuffs so Bayesian statistics is indeed the popular tools at the moment it seems and hence, I hope to take some more Bayesian courses such as AMS 206 and 207 down the road but would you recommend taking them early as in the first year beside the fact that 2nd year course load will be heavier. I am not trying to look past the first year courses in econ or anything but just thought that those AMS courses might help my research later on as well as the field courses and would be nice to streamline them with the econ classes.

Also, I am also looking at housing and it seems that it probably comes down to GSH and off campus. I think you had experiences in both as alluded to at some points in the thread. Since there are chance that the environment at GSH might change quickly depending on roommates what about nearby off campus apartment in the Santa Cruz area. I am willing to be off campus abit but not too far as San Jose to have better and quiet study environment. However, the 8 AM econometrics is gonna hurt two days a week but it would not be that bad if commuting by bus within the vicinity of Santa Cruz??? On craigslist, the price variation for apartments in Santa Cruz is pretty large and the hard part is that rent for Aug or Sept will not likely be up and advertised until july or so since the landlord will not know until then??? Any suggestions.