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[This is a post from my personal website: getintuit.blogspot.com]
Up-to-date readers of this blog know that the last two posts have been on the topic of first-year associate pay (what, how, why, where its going? etc.) Friend of GetIntuit, Pete L. made some very valid and interesting points in the comment box to the first post […]

Sometimes it takes the most extreme circumstances around us for us to stop taking things for granted. This is certainly true with things such as money, the people we love, even public transportation. But in grad school, you learn to appreciate even more fundamental things. Like sleep. And, as I have found out this week, […]

[This is a July 12th  post from my personal blog-site’s archive: http://getintuit.blogspot.com/2007/07/so-you-say-you-want-universal-health.html]I attended a pretty interesting discussion yesterday about the state of health care in the US and how the private markets might/should fit into the solution. It got me thinking: why do people seem to be demanding “universal/free health care? More importantly, why has […]

The Economist has an interesting article this week as part of their “Technology Quarterly” discussing electric-sourced buses in England. “Good idea”, you may think, right? I mean, in an age where the ever-growing evidence for global warming seems more and more convincing,  shouldn’t we be priding ourselves on finding alternative methods to power public transportation? […]

I’m glad to hear the choir is in favor of technical discourse over libatations.  I posted the question after a seemingly harmless comment about enjoying the union of an academic lifestyle and a drunkard’s lifestyle was met with a stern reply that “Yeah… we need to be careful about making too many econ jokes.”
My feeling […]