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How to tell your parents that you're a freshwater economist

1/22/2012

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On being a graduate student in Minnesota's Economics department (as opposed to Applied Economics).

Despite our differences, it appears that the life of a first year student in Economics or in Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota is pretty much the same:

I cannot afford meat, so for for dinner I mix some house flies into my bowl of rice to get some protein.  I do not mind, though, I knew when I started the program that I would be spending my most sexually potent years sitting in a dark office doing algebra and writing MatLab code.

Freshwater whaaa? A summary of the differences between freshwater and saltwater economics. As a micro-minded development economics in a generally salt-leaning department at a notoriously freshwater university, I generally abstain from this debate.

Hat tips: DW and DH
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    Aine Seitz McCarthy

    International development, economics and some pretty ambitious ideas from a stubborn graduate student clinging to her sense of adventure.


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