Failed Experiment!

Okay, so like none of the other people with the same name as me responded... but nevertheless, that's okay!

My next post will be an interesting topic... with microeconomic foundations!

How many of you are there out there, and how similar are they to you?

Yes a rather odd question for a title. Basically, one night (tonight, in fact), I decided to Google my name to see what turns up. I'm doing this not for pride's sake, but rather that there is an increasing trend for employers to want to Google potential employees to see what they're like - this involves visiting their MySpaces (I have none), blogs (only this one), Facebook (which I have, but hardly use because I spend most of my time with either uni work or research work), Friendster (which I had a looong time ago but which I will delete... soon... if I remember!). Of course, any pictures or comments or videos that you post is visible to the public (depending on your settings), not that I post anything offensive, but just be aware that employers might have a look around.

To those I have written to on their blogs: Hello! I wrote hello note(s) on your pages just to say hello and am wondering if we share anything in common. I initiated contact for the sole purpose of getting to know other people who have the same name as me, nothing else, but pure friendship. To those who got the mail, feel free to leave a comment to this post if you wish :-)

Game Theory: WHY!?

How ironic that since last semester, I thought, oooh yes I would LOVE to do game theory. I understood that it involved quite a fair bit of mathematics, but I thought that I could possibly manage. The first week of class was easy - just a revision of some common games, including the infamous Prisoner's Dilemma. But then the second week came, and that was a killer because I realized one important thing... math is INsufficient (what a shock, I know!) for game theory; one also needs to have strong skills in figuring diagrams out when the explanations somehow don't do the work... and I have read the prescribed chapter of the book, and I think if I were to read it twice, it wouldn't help get me from understanding nothing to understanding something! What a shock this class has turned out to be, but I, determined to be some sort of a future microeconomist, have to hold on I suppose. If this is only week 2, I am dreading week 3!

This brings me to a question I really should ask myself: Do I REALLY want to become a game theorist, or a microeconomist for that matter?!