When new students arrive at Pomona in the fall, they always sit through the requisite slideshows and welcome speeches. They are told these will be the most exciting years of their lives. They are told to make the most of it. They are assured that everyone else is as nervous as they [...]
Actually, health insurance isn’t sexy. But it’s important enough that it ought to be.
So now I’m selling health insurance as a student rep for Zane Benefits, LLC. Their marketing materials look pretty run-of-the-mill, and you’d be tempted to write them off as some kind of MLM or fake scam. But I met [...]
I haven’t updated in a while.
If you’re interested in public education drop me a line. Between three and eight years from now I’m going to call you back. Promise.
This weekend I rediscovered the Bureau of Labor Statistics website. Large bureaucracies may not always be the most efficient or practical organizations in the world, but you can’t beat them for massive amounts of data (see also BEA or BLM or, my favorite for voting research, the USCB). Oooh! Look at all [...]
…to quote Less Than Jake. Hopefully it’s a crash in the fun sense like when you’re snowboarding and fall into a huge drift and laugh it off and just have the minor inconvenience of having to crawl/swim your way out of the loose snow, which is good exercise anyway. As opposed to into a tree [...]
at least, I think so.
I just got back on Sunday from the big annual math conference and it was hella tight. Through an online bulletin board, I found a roommate who’s about to get his Ph.D. from UC Riverside and turned out to be really cool. A good drinking buddy (see photo) and [...]
As I mentioned earlier, the first weekend in November I got to go to Seattle to present a poster based on the research I did for my senior thesis. It was dope. There weren’t any grad schools there that I was interested in, but I met a bunch of cool undergrads and grad [...]
for the portfolio. I’ll probably add it to that page at some point.