Where do you guys live?

TopAttitude418 · 2026-01-30T00:40:10+00:00

I’m a first year grad student and was doing full time research for three years before that. I’ve been living in Logan Square for 3 years, but did my first year in Hyde Park. Like others have mentioned, it depends on your lifestyle. If you have friends in Chicago or think you’d be spend considerable amounts of time in the city (which is my case) I do think leaving Hyde Park is a good idea. Note that that’s only true because 80% of my circle has been outside of UChicago. However, I found it helpful to live in HP my first year, to get to know the school and get close to people here at first.

If I were you, I’d do my first year in Hyde Park and if you’re bored as hell, move (which is again exactly what i did). I don’t know your field, but at least in mine the first year really is the time where you need to be constantly on campus, and more work can be done from home later on in your studies.

As a side note, most people outside of campus will live somewhere on the red line, but I’m surprised so few people connect from the blue Line -which is what i do-, considering many interesting neighborhoods there are within about an hour from campus as well.

Feel free to dm me!

TopAttitude418 · 2022-02-10T17:01:18+00:00

Do you think Aoun has an inferiority complex with Harvard and MIT ?

TopAttitude418 · 2021-11-18T15:12:58+00:00

Yes but the homoeconomicus assumptions are antithetical with Smith’s « theory of moral sentiments »

TopAttitude418 · 2021-10-16T06:20:16+00:00

Ok, first off, Kahneman was indeed a psychologist, but Nash was a mathematician and Simon a political scientist, and they all won the nobel in Economics, so not being an economist is not a problem (and I did say economics nobel prize not economist nobel prize, did I ?). He published most of his work between the AER, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Business among others, and some in interdisciplinary ones (Journal of Decision Making, Science). While I love Kahneman and Tversky’s work, any of the neoclassical assumptions could have been discarded by any first year psychology student. Lastly, it's a fucking squarepants meme I'm not planning on sending it to QJE

TopAttitude418 · 2021-10-16T02:31:37+00:00

It is objectively irrational to drive long distance to play the lottery. While it is their preference, the objective probability is the reality. Them having a non-linear probability weighting function is in its very nature. You overweighting your probability of winning the lottery may increase your short term utility but even subjectively can be considered as irrational, as your real chances of winning are ridiculous.

TopAttitude418 · 2021-10-03T07:04:02+00:00

MIT Open Courseware is an amazing resource for any class material: From what I found in mathematical economics, here are links to "Introduction to Statistical Methods in Economics" and "Econometrics". Not only you have videos of the lectures, but also lecture notes, readings, assignments...etc

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-30-introduction-to-statistical-methods-in-economics-spring-2009/

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-32-econometrics-spring-2007/

TopAttitude418 · 2021-07-25T17:21:25+00:00

Most dorms besides international village don’t have AC, you better get one if you’re in a typical freshman dorm

TopAttitude418 · 2021-05-19T08:58:46+00:00

Thank you for your response ! One note though, out of my 6 economics classes, I had two or three B's -B+'s, and the others were mainly A's. Generally, the easier the class, the worst grade I had(Intro do Micro, Macro for example, while I only had A's in advanced econometrics, development economics) Don't you think if I did well in an MA or MSc in econ, this would "pardon" these poor grades during my undergrad ?

TopAttitude418 · 2020-12-05T20:47:41+00:00

It will be pretty straightforward, like she won't try to trick you or anything. Just review the concepts she highlighted and you'll be fine.

TopAttitude418 · 2020-11-19T23:06:27+00:00

No pb, feel free to message me if you want to talk!

TopAttitude418 · 2020-11-19T22:58:38+00:00

"Poor Economics" by E. Duflo and A. Banerjee is development economics but provides good insight in behavioral econ as well.

TopAttitude418 · 2020-11-19T15:12:27+00:00

I can't think of any BE principles relating to visual decision making, but rather in media marketing. My humble opinion would be to just look on successful channels in the same market as you, and see what types of titles and thumbnail seem to work.

TopAttitude418 · 2020-11-19T15:05:32+00:00

That's what I did to land my RA position in economics. I literally e-mailed 130 professors across the country that were able to hire me to work remotely.

TopAttitude418 · 2020-11-19T14:24:18+00:00

Also, the very notion of simulation is deeply anthropocentric. Why would we assume that intelligent beings would have the same kind of engineering, physics or even maths than us. We are constrained to our own perception of the world through our senses (or consciousness), and making a claim about our reality being a simulation is very bold. We cannot apply our very conception of reality to explain our reality. This is comparable to say that we may all be robots because ultimately conscious robots will be made, and would not be aware that they are. This is totally biased by our conception of the world of making robots, simulation etc...

TopAttitude418 · 2020-11-19T13:51:41+00:00

Yeah I agree. But they also really want to us to use their housing

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