For Liberty Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 I thought this may be a cool topic to discuss with other highly motivated students of economics. Without further ado, what are your goals for the summer? What things do you want to learn, what books do you want to read, how are you going to become a better economist, etc. ? I'll start things off: -Learn real analysis; get through Rudin. -Go through Alvin Roth's experimental econ lecture notes online. -Knock out the GRE. -Read a Monetary History of the United States. -Finish my econ thesis and math thesis. -Narrow my list of grad schools I'll apply to. -Begin working on my NSF app. -Learn the ways of the "mathemagician" Arthur Benjamin. -Silly, but know every Nobel Prize winner, what year they won, and understand contributions to economics. -Oh yeah, relax and enjoy a few beers. I look forward to everyone's responses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffsmaster Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Two or three conference presentations GRE, GMAT perhaps Started third working paper ....... PS. I'm a 2nd year master student. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Improve math background (multivariate calc, diff eq, linear algebra) Read, both econ related and non econ stuff. You need a break every now and then! Research with an econ prof. GRE. 800 is the goal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeno Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 -Learn real analysis; get through Rudin. -Go through Alvin Roth's experimental econ lecture notes online. -Knock out the GRE. -Read a Monetary History of the United States. -Finish my econ thesis and math thesis. -Narrow my list of grad schools I'll apply to. -Begin working on my NSF app. -Learn the ways of the "mathemagician" Arthur Benjamin. -Silly, but know every Nobel Prize winner, what year they won, and understand contributions to economics. -Oh yeah, relax and enjoy a few beers. I think those may be incompatible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charis Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 -Silly, but know every Nobel Prize winner, what year they won, and understand contributions to economics. I actually had something similar in mind, but I was thinking of going by a list of the most cited journal articles. I will probably skip some of the econometric ones, though, since there does seem to be a bit of a bias towards technical econometric papers in the list I found. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kipfilet Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Oh yeah, relax and enjoy a few beers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTemp Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 I will be: -Taking a game theory course this summer, so I'm going to focus on learning as much Game Theory as I can in the next 6 weeks. -Doing research with the health economist and chief scientist at a major health insurance provider . -Reading through a few journal articles per week to narrow my senior thesis idea and eventually begin a lit review. -Reading for leisure nightly. -Relaxing on the weekends: hanging out with friends, drinking beer, enjoying the summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treddi Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 ... how do you pay rent? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rthunder27 Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 -Learn to ride a bicycle -Learn LaTex (probably just LyX) -Make a good dent in my stack of books -Play through a bit of my backlog of video games (and get a crazy high rank in Halo) -Relax, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taurenchieftain Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 In order of priority.... - learn Matlab (this needs to get done urgently) - have fun - finish the two databases I am preparing for myself (I am pretty sure with "have fund" up there on the priority list I will never get to do the stuff below) - read papers - do a bit of review on first-year micro i took this year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorkingHard Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 For Liberty, do you have a link to the NSF application? I wasn't aware that it is up and that we can start reviewing it / thinking about how to fill it out. - Take the GRE - Successfully complete 3 classes: advanced calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations - Finish some research with a professor - Formalize ideas for undergraduate thesis - Start the statement of purpose for various schools Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azzobrother Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 For those who want to read journal articles, here's a good place to start http://econ-www.mit.edu/files/6349 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
For Liberty Posted May 13, 2011 Author Share Posted May 13, 2011 Working Hard, I was planning on going off of previous years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRav Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 -Learn dynamic programming and study to get out of math class. -Improve my background in prob/stat. -Reapply for NSF. -Become well-versed in why I hate RBC and DSGE models. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneArmedEcon Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Hmm... my one and only goal right now is to kick butt on my prelims next week and then be able to take the entire summer off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
econfailure Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 -stats class -calc III -GE I am stuck at my university this summer in a (college town), for school and working. Don't know what else I could do... any suggestions? I'm a couple credits away from being a junior. I was looking at NSF research programs for next summer for undergrads, since my school doesnt offer any econ research... idk I am so unfamiliar with nsf and which ones to apply to. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeno Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 -Learn to ride a bicycle -Learn LaTex (probably just LyX) -Make a good dent in my stack of books -Play through a bit of my backlog of video games (and get a crazy high rank in Halo) -Relax, etc. I like this list. Make sure you actually follow through on the first one; I've heard riding a bike to get around is a must in Palo Alto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urspider Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 My school gave me a grant to study the impact of cigarette excise tax collection on a Native American reservation. Pretty excited about the opportunity to start research. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andronicus Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 - Finishing current experiments and starting on next project - Conference presentation - Teaching micro principles - Taking class in nonparametric statistics - Achieving total destruction on all three Angry Birds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffsmaster Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 - Finishing current experiments and starting on next project - Conference presentation - Teaching micro principles - Taking class in nonparametric statistics - Achieving total destruction on all three Angry Birds ESA? If so, I'm going there either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andronicus Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 Yes, ESA in Chicago. Looking forward to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qqlam Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 Probability and GRE!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZomgRogged Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 Things to do: - get up on macro - have many beers - maria Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UserNam Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 Travelling! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggoofer Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 Going to drink gin and tonics while working on my tan, poolside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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