Money and Financial Lifestyle

For a number of reasons, I haven’t been blogging much: First off, I’m still in post-semester recovery mode. This happens every Spring - after the semester is over, I need a week or two to decompress, clean out the detritus of the year from my office, and kick back a bit before refocusing on my summer research goals. This time around, between the timing of exams and faculty meetings, it was worse than usual.

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Interestign Times In The Unknown Household

Sometimes I think I’m in a Godfather movie (i.e. “Just when I think I’m out, they pull me back in”). Actually, it’s my own fault.

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Grading - The GIft That Keeps On GIving

Here’s a short “Crash Course” interview with Nobel Laureate Myron Scholes, conducted by Deborah Solomon.

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Q&A With Myron Scholes

The semester is now officially over at Unknown University. I gave my last final Tuesday afternoon (the last slot in finals week). Unfortunately, grades had to be turned in by 4 today (only 48 hours later)

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Stick A Fork In Me!

I recently started reading Goldstein, Martin, and Cialdini’s “Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive.” It could easily be described as “Freakonomics for Social Psychology”. It’s a fun, easy, and very informative read, with each chapter only about 1500-2000 words long, and highlighting one persuasion technique. So, you can knock out a chapter in 10 minutes or so

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Using "Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive" In The Classroom

Chutzpah is typically defined as “brazenness, audacity, or shamelessness”. One wag defined it as “killing both parents and then throwing yourself on the court’s mercy because you were an orphan”

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Now That’s Chutzpah

Once again, it’s that happy time - the end of the semester at Unknown University. I teach my last classes tomorrow - in one, I hand back some assignments and talk about the final (that means today is all about the grading, and in the other (the student managed fund), I hand out stock assignments for which they must come up with final analyses. As always, the last week was crazy - the student-managed fund class makes a presentation to the Alumni at the end of every semester, and it’s always a mad rush to get it done.

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We Are In Final Approach