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I have a final tomorrow. Ergo, I procrastinate.

I got to campus early this morning after five inches of snow fell across Chicago overnight. Digging the car out was a chore, especially because I don’t have any decent winter boots. Somehow I’ve managed the last four years in Chicago without any.

About half a dozen other people and I confronted the wind whipping across the point to snap some pictures of the pristine winter scene. I’ll post the best ones when I get home later; right now, I’m hunkered down in the Reg to “study.” It’s not easy going. I’ve reached the point where every graph, equation, and theory I’ve ever seen in my economics classes look identical. You’d think that would make things easier. Instead of being equally easy to understand, though, they’re equally uninteresting. I’m tired of abstraction. I don’t care if hypothetical agent A chooses to be a farmer, a laborer, or an entrepreneur; I don’t care if hypothetical agent A migrates to the city, even if her chance of finding full time employment is only p. I’m tired of boiling down complex decision making processes to a few key variables, especially when the fruits of this labor have no predictive value in the real world. (Okay, okay. I know that models are used for a lot more than predicting real world scenarios. I’m just ranty because I don’t want to study.)

I won’t learn my official start date with Google until February, according to my recruiter. They’re going to place us into teams in January, then determine a few possible start dates for us to choose from. At any rate, the accepted offer letter is in the mail.

48 hours from now, I’ll be just two quarters (five classes!) away from graduation. Wow.