ILX University - first course?

bragging!

how do i get a job at harvard

maybe you have to wander around the hallways and solve equations for people?

That would prob help.

Job sucked tbh because my boss was a brilliant asshole who was impossible to work with. The tuition remission program was the main reason I took the position in the first place. I was gutted when I realized that they just didn't have the programs I was interested in. The couple classes I did take were pretty cool though.

Extension is wonderful, but too bad some business school grads sued them to make it impossibly hard for students to transfer into the college to finish the degree. I understand it's been really injurious to their completion numbers.

lol. the worst anti-competition stories I've heard about students have all involved b-school students.

A "close friend" of mine will be taking 7+ years to complete a 2 year degree finish b/c the ruling decided that extension students (functionally) can't take classes at the college, and many of the required sequences in the course are only offered in alternate years, and even then at the same time. The Extension - which is 100 years old - has traditionally allowed students to cross-enroll or transfer to the college, but this is no longer an option. Further, full-time extension students - many of whom work during the day - cannot receive ANY financial aid b/c the Federal allotment provided to the university is now forwarded to the "more worthy" schools.

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Science and Cooking sounds fascinating, but Financial Markets is necessary.

shiller is prob the best person to learn about financial markets through too, recently reading about him in

http://i43.tower.com/images/mm117185549/myth-rational-market-history-risk-reward-delusion-on-justin-fox-paperback-cover-art.jpg

studied under God of Financial Economics modigliani at mit but was a critic of efficient market theory, prophet of us housing bubble/collapse. feel like disciplinary critique is best when it's coming from someone really entrenched in the theory & intellectual foundations of the discipline rather than people who are like "lol u assume ppl are rational." i'm tempted to take it w yall tho things are really picking up in my classes

I was in new haven recently and he was my celebrity sighting

i sold business cards to howard gardner last year. he was a huge dickhead!

ACADEMIC CELEBRITY SIGHTING THREAD

almost bought myth of the rational market the other day

so did billions of other people amirite?

:D

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financial markets it is!

dope

ugh

wait - didn't we say we might do a couple at once? can't we do the euro one too?

maybe. when/where do we start this? and how? i'm okay w/ spinning this off onto some barely-used board (or creating a new one?), so that it won't clutter up the main board and we can keep a few different streams contained.

didn't we say we might do a couple at once

i don't see why we can't tbh

whiney's reading a keith richards book

spinning this off onto some barely-used board (or creating a new one?)

I Love Learning!!!!!!!!!

i kinda like that name

so when does this start?

So we ... start ILL as a board

• Create a master thread for each class?
• Create a weekly thread for each class, assuming we all agree on one (or two) lectures/week?

What are the two classes we'd like to do? The top two?

seems to me a weekly thread with two lectures a week would be a+

What are the two classes we'd like to do? The top two?

top two or three would probably suffice. maybe two for now?

two seems good

I will run financial markets, who wants to step up for euro civ? 'running it' just means 'make sure to post the lecture once a week at given time' but that still is a commitment of sorts.

I'll do for sure.

any nods for 2nd and 3rd mods?

do we really need em? considering it's gonna be like 2 threads atm

maybe just add em when someone wants to start a new course

fair fair, was just thinking we are both EST

almost bought myth of the rational market the other day

― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 29 September 2011 11:54 (Yesterday) Bookmark

you should buy it!

will do this! just currently have a helluva stack to get thronow it's worth it though :)

so there are 26 lectures for financial markets and 28 for euro civ, so presumably they'll be twice a week?

maybe m-w one of them and tu-th the other?

wow that was supposed to say "helluva stack to get through, good to know it's worth it though"

lol @ computers xp

ILXniversity! this is gonna rock.

can't wait for the animosity & pranks between economics and history majors at ILX uni

NERRRRRRRRRRRRRRD
(works both ways)

panty bomb on the quad!!

gonna see how many of us we can squeeze into the phone booth

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^ what does it say about me that i have learned the keyboard shortcut for ∞

∞? I just cut and pasted it from yours.

too much time on ilx

xp

shortcut to infinity is already a scifi movie or s/t right?

Shitfucker, financial markets, you BASTARDS. This is going to be a total slog.