• Countries as Dresses

    So… this post is different from the usual content here. Believe it or not, I have hobbies (shocking… IKR). One of them is dress design. I finished my micro problem set a couple days ahead of schedule, so decided to spend some time putting Apple pen to iPad and sketching out some ideas I’ve had…

  • What can we do……

    What can we do……

    Inspired by my Judgement decision making class “Sir….. I’m so sorry, there seems to be an issue with our new product” “Oh, the home sapiens? What’s wrong?” “The judgement decision making module you requested doesn’t work right. They’re not calibrated.” “What do you mean not calibrated?” “They’re not confident enough when they should be and…

  • My (bad) Attempt at Romance Strategy pt.2

    I’m back at it and time to solve this thing. Get ready for some really ugly notation. Solving No message Let’s start with R. If there is no message, R first has to choose whether to declare, then how to respond. Remember that there’s a (k+b) chance that S reciprocates and a (1-(k+b)) chance that…

  • My (bad) Attempt at Romance Strategy pt.1

    My (bad) Attempt at Romance Strategy pt.1

    Last week, I finally got around to calling my friends. In stereotypical female fashion, the topic quickly turned to their romantic interests. One of them was getting along very well with one of her coworkers and wanted our opinions on whether he liked her back. She laid out the evidence, and the three of us…

  • Econ in the Wild pt 1.

    Books like “Predictably Irrational” an “Misbehaving” are full of examples of so called “anomolies” that seem to defy traditional theory. They were real economists acknowledging psychology. As an “””””””””””””””””””””””economist”””””””””””””””””””””” who specialises in acknowledging the psychology, I thought I’d acknowledge some “normalcies” observed while being a potato. Red packets– Every holiday season, “The Deadweight Loss of…

  • 4 Years of Uni in 3 Graphs

    I AM DONE! My last final exam ended an hour ago. This means that I’m finally done with undergrad. It has been quite the journey, from classes to research to learning to live in a dorm. Did I mention a pandemic?Instead of doing some sappy reflection piece, I present a 3 graph summary. Colours: red…

  • Miscommunication

    Miscommunication

    I entered the dating market for the first time two years ago. Correction, I stumbled in like a lost explorer who didn’t think to bring an extra torch. Let’s call him gym buddy (major: ECE,  class: ‘24). He was a 6am gym regular and the only other one who seemed interested in powerlifting. After a…

  • First Impressions Matter

    First Impressions Matter

    I’ve always been told not to judge a book by its cover and, in the same breath, told that my messy hair made me look like a “crazy person”. This pissed me off. Admittedly, I can be a bit crazy, but not because I don’t like tidying my hair- that’s laziness >< People, including me,…

  • The Papers that Made Me (So far)

    Some time ago, NPR interviewed three economists about the papers that inspired their careers. I’m no economist, but in the past three years, I’ve gone from Russian History nerd to aspiring social psychologist to aspiring “”””economist””””. Econ research club takes a lot of credit for this shift, but I’d be remiss to not bring up…

  • Claimed’s Basement

    Claimed’s Basement

    To distract myself from admissions doomposting, I figured I’d do a bit of writing. Yes, it is supposed to read like AI wrote it. Two predocs wake up in the basement of Littauer Center for Public Administration, chained to student desks. On each desk is a laptop sitting on top of an old copy of…