On the upside, I've got the summer off! Let's hear it for school vacations! I'm not going to just be kicking my heels up, though. I've got three research papers that I'm working on with various people, so I'll be working on those as much as possible to get them ready to be submitted to journals. It will be a nice break from homework and tests, before I get back at it next fall.
I have to give a huge thanks to Jenn and Henry for supporting me through this year. Not only did Jenn take excellent care of the boys and run the whole house on many a late night and weekend while I studied away, but she also had to listen to me each night trying to explain esoteric theories to her, even though she could care less about the Pareto optimal way to invest in public goods. Henry was great, too. At times during our dinner conversation he would break in with great questions like, "What's credit default, Dad?" Or, "What did you learn about in Macro today?" Or, "What games do you do in game theory?" As funny as it is to hear a 3-year-old ask things like that, it was actually a pretty good thing to try explaining this stuff to a little kid. Mostly, though, I just love his enthusiasm and curiosity about everything.
And Ellis? Well, if you recall, he was born while I was in the middle of Math Camp at the beginning of the year, so he's been with me every step of the way. I don't know if I can say that he really supported me, but he's done a great job of slobbering on a lot of things, you have to give him that. And all of those full diapers were good excuses for me to take a few breaks from the books, right?
5 comments:
You're done and you gave it your ABSOLUTE all!!! That's all you can do so begin celebrating summer and the break! You made it through the hardest schooling year of your life and hopefully it's all downhill from here. They don't call it "HARD-VARD" for nothing! We're praying hard that you passed and can't imagine that you didn't. Mom
Ben, I'm proud of you for making it through this year, and through the test today. That is hard work - good job!
I really thought the picture you posted was Beast on the last day of 7th or 8th grade. You fooled me.
Well done Ben. Who comes up with such a sick idea as a test that covers all the material for a whole year? Someone needs to teach those Harvard guys a thing or two about short term memory and brain dumping! Anyway, I have complete confidence that you have been successful in your efforts and will come through the test with flying colors. I hope you get a little time to relax now. Oh, and I heard Boston was going to be hotter than Tucson today. Such an oddity is welcome on our end. :-)
I don't think you need to convince many people of the difficulty of a test coming from a graduate program at Harvard. If you didn't pass...come on we all know you did, you have to have magic brains to even go there. Good luck.
Beautiful post. You're a lucky man Ben.
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