robbieboy74

i also think post-secondary education isn't subsidized enough.

nice. :tup:

I think this is precisely why they (plan to) do it. If they placed a high enough emphasis on money over other job characteristics, they'd go to Wall Street, either with just a bachelors or a full-on finance Phd, depending on our discount rates. Grad students not only tend to have low enough discount rates such that their decision is optimal for them (but not irrational as the humorously Simpsons suggests), but I think they tend to value doing their passion very highly. (maximizing lifetime earnings doesn't map as well to maximizing lifetime utility for grad students, but it may for people who become bankers right after college.) If they wanted security they'd become health care providers or some other job for which demand is long forecasted to exceed supply. as far as accounting PhD's...I'm not sure...it takes a special type of personality to really like accounting, and I definitely don't have it. (I've only met a couple people who majored in it.) though I'm sure you'd make a killer CFO with an accounting PhD...

it depends on the individual demand curves of the new buyers, which are not identical.

especially makes things more specific, for example "I like cake, especially chocolate cake." specially is the adverb form of "special," and it is not used really that much. It can be used to mean particularly, or for one purpose. For example: "I made this cake specially for you."

wharton just CHURNS out them online degrees. I KNEW it.

well...i wouldnt be applying if i didn't feel already that i will be able to handle it. I think that is jumping the gun a bit.

I'm more wondering whether it will help me get IN to the PhD programs much more than adv. metrix. I am not particularly worried about surviving one yet since it's a big "if" wrt to getting admitted anywhere.

Does anyone have an idea about this, or do you think it wouldn't make much of a difference? If that's the case, I think i'd prefer advanced metrics.

This is exactly how I felt. :doh:

watch CNN 24/7

:) ..........

i dont see how beer is relevant to this thread, ZING. :D

tom, but the description here doesnt seem like it uses measure theory right? the prereq is only a year of calculus, too. do you mean if i want to take the next level of prob after this one? doesnt the description seem VERY relevant for a basic understanding of the theory in econometrics?

Good old fashioned guilt forces me to not procrastinate. I don't know how or when it was instilled in me, but it hasn't let. I simply can't have the same level of fun if I have work hanging over my head. I think it might be because I am a bad, bad perfectionist and am trying to extract as much utility from my free-time as I can.