Question:
The average life expectancy in India is 62 years, the average life expectancy in Sweeden is 79 years. So if a person moves from India to Sweeden is he expected to live longer?
Favourite answer:
Yes, he would live longer, considering India is really overcrowded and there is not enough fresh air for everyone, so people die faster.
Now, this would have been a perfectly laughable answer if the student was in grade school, unfortunately this answer was one of the gems I discovered while grading Intro. to Macroeconomics papers at college. That scares me to a certain extent.
I love grading papers, regular source of entertainment!
On another note, I was accepted to the London School of Economics, so I'll be in London next year studying Operations Research, Game Theory, International and Developmental Economics. I'm still waiting to hear from Oxford, but I think I'll go to LSE anyway.
As some of you know, I was accepted into a fellowship program offered by Wharton, Fletcher, Sloan, Columbia, Tuck, Yale and NYU... basically all the big business schools in the Greater New York-Massachusetts region, so I've been traveling quite frequently to attend seminars and work on presentations and case-studies. I was at Wharton last week, and I felt really stupid there. This was the first time all 120 fellows from all across the country (and one student from LSE) were together. Most of these kids were from big name schools and no one had even heard of Hamilton, except this one girl, Jee. The following is the transcript of our converstation:
Jee: So where are you from?
Maity: Hamilton College, you've probably never heard of it's in upstate New York...
Jee: No, I know where Hamilton is. I applied there and didn't get in.
Maity: Really?
Jee: ...yeah...
Maity: YES!!! (aside: finally...)
Jee: Sorry?
Maity: No, nothing. So which school do you go to now?
Jee: Bryn Mawr.
Apart from that I met kids who have been running their own businesses since they were 19. Some NGOs, some own their own clothing line. One kid had a thriving Socially Responsible Company called, damn I forget the name, running in 27 different countries, including India, selling reading glasses...bottomline, most of these kids are really, really smart. Take my case study group for instance: Three girls from Columbia, one from Harvard, one guy from Duke and our team mentor is a manager of SRI at Citibank. Needless to say they're really hardcore about all this and that just cramps my style...
On the upside, I met a bunch of people who were also accepted to LSE, so I'll know some people beforehand, hehehehe. The fellows were given accomodation at the Philadelphia Marriott, unforunately I got kicked out of the hotel for all the wrong reasons on the second day, but that's a different story. On another note, a huge, African-American hooligan (must have been at least 200 kgs!), stole my burger at the bus station at 5 in the morning. That too is another story.
An interesting thing about my fellows were that although most of these kids are highly accomplished and very very smart, they're very keen on NGOs, CSR and SRIs which makes me feel good...
College has been rough. There's always work to be done, grade this, grade that, exams, tests, lab reports, research, editing my professor's book on Financial Market Theory, tax returns, organizing events as social/cultural chair of Asian Cultural Society...the list just goes on.
Speaking of which, ACS celebrated the Lunar New Year last night, slightly belated, but it was great. We had a professional lion dance troop come and perform, there was a martial arts demonstration and of course good ol' Chinese food.
This weekend is going to be rough too, it's becoming a habit now. I still need to find a job for the summer...time is running out and then there is abstract algebra homework to finish.
I need to takesome time off and went frolicking in the Adirondacks, a local mountain range and an awesome hiking trail, just the stress buster I need... I'm way behind on my work.
Sayonara.
PS: If you haven't already seen them, I thoroughly recommend "Munich", "Good Luck and Good Night", "Why We Fight" and "Thank You For Smoking". I'm planning to catch Rang De Basanti in New Jersey when I go to Columbia next weekend.
The average life expectancy in India is 62 years, the average life expectancy in Sweeden is 79 years. So if a person moves from India to Sweeden is he expected to live longer?
Favourite answer:
Yes, he would live longer, considering India is really overcrowded and there is not enough fresh air for everyone, so people die faster.
Now, this would have been a perfectly laughable answer if the student was in grade school, unfortunately this answer was one of the gems I discovered while grading Intro. to Macroeconomics papers at college. That scares me to a certain extent.
I love grading papers, regular source of entertainment!
On another note, I was accepted to the London School of Economics, so I'll be in London next year studying Operations Research, Game Theory, International and Developmental Economics. I'm still waiting to hear from Oxford, but I think I'll go to LSE anyway.
As some of you know, I was accepted into a fellowship program offered by Wharton, Fletcher, Sloan, Columbia, Tuck, Yale and NYU... basically all the big business schools in the Greater New York-Massachusetts region, so I've been traveling quite frequently to attend seminars and work on presentations and case-studies. I was at Wharton last week, and I felt really stupid there. This was the first time all 120 fellows from all across the country (and one student from LSE) were together. Most of these kids were from big name schools and no one had even heard of Hamilton, except this one girl, Jee. The following is the transcript of our converstation:
Jee: So where are you from?
Maity: Hamilton College, you've probably never heard of it's in upstate New York...
Jee: No, I know where Hamilton is. I applied there and didn't get in.
Maity: Really?
Jee: ...yeah...
Maity: YES!!! (aside: finally...)
Jee: Sorry?
Maity: No, nothing. So which school do you go to now?
Jee: Bryn Mawr.
Apart from that I met kids who have been running their own businesses since they were 19. Some NGOs, some own their own clothing line. One kid had a thriving Socially Responsible Company called, damn I forget the name, running in 27 different countries, including India, selling reading glasses...bottomline, most of these kids are really, really smart. Take my case study group for instance: Three girls from Columbia, one from Harvard, one guy from Duke and our team mentor is a manager of SRI at Citibank. Needless to say they're really hardcore about all this and that just cramps my style...
On the upside, I met a bunch of people who were also accepted to LSE, so I'll know some people beforehand, hehehehe. The fellows were given accomodation at the Philadelphia Marriott, unforunately I got kicked out of the hotel for all the wrong reasons on the second day, but that's a different story. On another note, a huge, African-American hooligan (must have been at least 200 kgs!), stole my burger at the bus station at 5 in the morning. That too is another story.
An interesting thing about my fellows were that although most of these kids are highly accomplished and very very smart, they're very keen on NGOs, CSR and SRIs which makes me feel good...
College has been rough. There's always work to be done, grade this, grade that, exams, tests, lab reports, research, editing my professor's book on Financial Market Theory, tax returns, organizing events as social/cultural chair of Asian Cultural Society...the list just goes on.
Speaking of which, ACS celebrated the Lunar New Year last night, slightly belated, but it was great. We had a professional lion dance troop come and perform, there was a martial arts demonstration and of course good ol' Chinese food.
This weekend is going to be rough too, it's becoming a habit now. I still need to find a job for the summer...time is running out and then there is abstract algebra homework to finish.
I need to takesome time off and went frolicking in the Adirondacks, a local mountain range and an awesome hiking trail, just the stress buster I need... I'm way behind on my work.
Sayonara.
PS: If you haven't already seen them, I thoroughly recommend "Munich", "Good Luck and Good Night", "Why We Fight" and "Thank You For Smoking". I'm planning to catch Rang De Basanti in New Jersey when I go to Columbia next weekend.
talk about gloating! my hearty congratulations! i hear LSE's bloody tough. you'll prob meet a couple of my classmates there...
ReplyDeleteYou freakin genius...Congrats on everything! And can't wait to hear the story about how u got kicked out of the hotel and got ur burger stolen (tho not surpried at the latter cause Philly is so ghetto.)
ReplyDeletePS...how did u get to see all these movies?? I didn't even know some of them were out yet!
Yo Anusha that's really harsh... unless you consider feeling really stupid amongst a group of really smart people something to be proud of. I don't know about you, but that kinda makes me feel inferior, quite a harsh reality check, now I know how harsh the competition out there is.
ReplyDeleteSome of your classmates eh? Who's going there?
@Maggie: GLGN was out last semester, Munich just went off the theatres, Pat in the Lang Lab downloaded Why We Fight and I am yet to see Thank You For Smoking, but it looks really promising. I liked the idea a lot.
there's one called tarang from LMG cal, and siddharth kotari may land up there if he doesn't get the inlaks.
ReplyDeleteCongrats Maity! So this is an undergrad degree?
ReplyDeleteSo you're really in the big league now!
If he doesn't get the Inlaks...oooooh! Choices, choices, choices - feel sorry for the guy. I was rejected by Cambridge, so I don't have that problem, hehehehe.
ReplyDeletehey maity,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!!!
U shd have a good time at LSE next year....couple of my frnds are there..
Also, this fellowship prog of yours sounds really good...congratulations again..
see you sometime next year then!!!
Thanks mate. Yes, of course, I'll see you next year. I hope Cambridge is treating you well...can't type anymore...must...do...abstract...algebra...must.
ReplyDeleteAah you heartless man. You know that we only care about how you got kicked out of the hotel and how you got your burger stolen than how inferior you felt at some smart-kid-association :p
ReplyDelete(You can tell I'm having a hard time deciding if I'm in awe or terribly jealous or both!)
All in good time, Ms. V, all in good time... let this week of love and midterm examinations have their fun, then I shall return with more tales from the Philly.
ReplyDeleteGlad to have you back btw. Well I'm glad to be back too.
Congrats again, and hope you have a brilliant year there even if it won't start for a while yet. And you don't need us to tell you, but if you're not dumb, you don't have to worry about feeling it- it'll wear off soon enough.
ReplyDeleteP.S. What is it with you and weird experiences? At least this time, the fat chap only took your burger...no guns appearing in this story.
P.P.S. I just went back and looked at the comments on your last post...I'm safely shut up in my parents' house in Cal, no lechers till I get back to Bangalore. I had an episode with one chap apparently stalking me back in September, but that's about all the interesting experiences I've had lately. And the link works fine...www.bluefloppyhat.blogspot.com. There's nothing of interest on it aside from my neurotic whining of the last three days.
ReplyDelete-thats 'like Usha'. I'm yet to figure out who she is. i'm bored.
ReplyDeleteyeah! good old nisha has joined the club. watched 'the constant gardner' yesterday. too soppy. a pointless movie, ridiculous story line. could have been done better. liked it at some point. hated it at the end cause it gave me a headache.
Are you kidding, the constant gardener was great, yeah perhaps a little soppy, but the subject was very interesting. It's this new trend of whistle-blowing, big business kinda movies like "Lord of War", "Why We Fight" etc.
ReplyDeleteGood going dude... LSE and all! I am impressed...
ReplyDeleteso what exactly is happenning with you and the big American B-Schools... couldn't figure that out...
Thanks Vaks, I'll explain it all on Thursday after exams.
ReplyDeleteI thought I would blog today, but...
ReplyDeleteAfter reading your last post, I felt like you... or like you must've felt around all those smart people...
Again. For the six million four hundred fortyseventh thousand two hundred and eighty nineth time since I came here, and at least the 8th time since I started writing this comment.
Bastard.
You're just in denial, Kasewa... you know there's room for only one Hall of Mirrors in these lands.
ReplyDeletehey! congratulations!!
ReplyDeleteguess I will be seeing you soon!
(and thanks for the wishes:)
Going to be taking off for a while. See you when I get back.
ReplyDelete