Where I've Been!

Okay, this was one of the first applications I ever used on Facebook, you know, back when Facebook was awesome and just for college kids only. Man, those were the days. Anyway, here's Where I've Been:

I Suck At Blogging

I'll be the first to admit that I officially suck at blogging. Funny thing about that statement. I remember when I was a little kid, I had a teacher that used to tell us never to say "suck" because we weren't vacuums. I am really awful at blogging, I'm sure my teacher would approve of that.

Now here comes my excuse, I HAVE QUALS coming up next week!!! Yea, yea, "but Jadrian, you didn't have quals in May and you skipped that whole month." Again, I revert back to my previous statement, I suck at blogging. This may be the 13th time I've promised to be better. We'll see.

Back to the quals, or core exams, or prelims. Why are there so many names for this test? Is one actually any different than the other? If so, I don't know why. On the topic of things I don't know, let's say about 75% of what we've covered this past year. So here's the layout of what's coming up:

Today - 8:45 May 13, 2011 - STUDY, STUDY, STUDY, STUDY, FACEBOOK, STUDY
June 13 - Micro core exam (Perhaps my strongest subject)
June 15 - Macro core exam (My semi-confident exam)
June 20 - Stats/Econometrics core exam (I'm scared of this one, I have nightmares)
June 21 - Hello Texas
July 3 - Goodbye Texas

So yea, that's the next 2 weeks in a nut shell. I feel REALLY good about micro only because that's definitely my strongest subject. Macro, ehhh. That's a good description. I did really well in the second semester (A-), but I BOMBED the first semester (B-, which is really an F). And then there's stats, the devil himself would be scared of stats. I have studied for this one more than any of the others.

So, where am I? I've completed the the first semester of material from Stats, and about to dabble in the 2nd. I've done MOST of the recitations from the 1st semester of micro, and I've re-worked about 1/2 the problem sets in macro from the 1st semester. Notice a theme yet? I haven't touched the second semester. Ugh.

Back to work.

Becoming Entrepreneurial

Entrepreneurial, I've always hated that word, and every variation of it. I LOVE the idea of being an Entrepreneur and running your own business, but at the end of the day, that word has ALWAYS nagged me. I think it may stem from the fact that I can't spell the word, it's always been tough for me to spell, and I was even an Entrepreneurship minor as an undergrad. As we speak, instead of trying to type the word, I'm just hitting Command+C and copying it into the document.

So, back on to the topic of why I started this post! I've started my own business. And by started, I really mean I've filled out the beginning paperwork necessary to be registered with the city and state. Once I get the paperwork back saying I'm legit, I'll open a bank account and start ordering supplies and then accepting customers. I'm hoping to be ready to go by the time summer starts.

So what is the business you may ask? It's a convenience based business, which focuses on house cleaning. So what is convenience service you may ask? It's doing things you don't want to do, like walking the dog, picking up mail, delivering groceries, etc. If you'd like to see our website, here ya go:

www.ServingPullman.Weebly.com

We're hoping to get a full domain in the next month or so. Our goal right now is a customer base of 5 regular clients by the end of the summer.

Funny Econ Stories

So over the past two weeks, it's been pretty slow around the econ world, well, my part of the econ world. You know, the part that's within a 20 mile radius of Pullman, WA.

However, The Economist Blog did post an interesting article about how business students are the laziest students in the university setting:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2011/04/business_education?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/racetothebottom

Ouch! Stings a little, but I definitely can see they have a lot of valid points, and I'd have to agree with a lot of what they say. There are a lot of REALLY good students in the business field, but there are also a lot of lazy students that water us down.

Speeding Tickets, Ugh!

So last week I had a visitor come up and see Pullman and see me and Spencer. Well on the way home, I got a nice fat speeding ticket ($154) in a town that has a grand total of 5 police officers. It's been about 4 years since I got my last speeding ticket, and that price is the reason why. There was a little stretch where I got a speeding ticket each year. I'm basically giving the police department $154 and got nothing for it. So, is going 46 in a 35 worth it, not really.

As far as school goes, it's actually been kind of slow since Spring Break, which is really nice. I've been able to get a lot of work done and get started on my study plan for the cores. 9 weeks to go, and I haven't really started studying. Eek! I guess I'll start soon enough.

Oh! And I went biking on the Chipman Palouse Trail! It's a really nice trail, and I think I'll be hitting that path more often: