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What would you do with 100 million USD?

I'm just curious how everyone responds, so put down whatever you see fit. How a person answers can prove rather insightful though.

Despite the number of economics classes I've taken, I feel like my understanding of many topics is tragically inadequate.

Perhaps a good starting point is just some gold ole textbooks. If you've taken an economics class recently, could you kindly post

Name of textbook
Author(s)
Level
Topic(s)
A brief comment or two

For level, use either Introductory, Intermediate, or Advanced.
Introductory - high school AP class, econ 100/101
Intermediate - classes for econ majors
Advanced - graduate level text

For example:
Economics: Principles, Problems, and Policies
McConnell, Brue
Introductory
Micro/Macro
Decent standard introduction to econ

Microeconomic Theory: Basic Principles and Extensions
Nicholson, Snyder
Intermediate
Micro
Lots of math, relatively rigorous approach to micro theory

[edit] Anything is good, but especially more applicable macro stuff, less rigorous math stuff

Thanks

Holy shit drone micro
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So I was visiting a family friend for a day, and I'm just chatting to his 7th grade son about stuff. He mentions how he got a new computer game about a month ago named StarCraft. I told him it wasn't really worth trying to get good at the game, although he could do much worse (like Maple Story). Apparently he's aware of SlayerS_`BoxeR` and the Korean scene and such.

After some imploring on his part, I finally oblige him by playing and proceed to crush his ego in two ten-minute games. He really wants to get good at StarCraft now. I'm such a bad influence.

he was on a week-long blogging streak too =(

My schedule is far less interesting than his:
wake up
eat
gaming
nap
eat
gaming
study
bedtime

Since everyone else seems to be talking about it, I'm done with 3/4 finals
Logic Design
Corporate Finance
Algorithms and Data Structures
Systems Programming

It's a scary thought that I'm pretty much halfway through college with no real direction in life yet. Damn I'm getting old.

I know there's at least two other TL people at college, and I've managed to get a good number of other people to play StarCraft.

I was wondering if there's anybody else from the Houston area, where I'll be this summer.


P.S. Beethoven is amazing

Season 2 is turning out to be even better than the first. Good thing fansubs are being released so quickly.

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It's just so much better than American TV.

Series I've seen (doesn't include a lot of movies, etc) with my personal rating out of 5 for [fun/story]

• [4/3] Claymore - excessive and fun action, plot is okay but the anime original ending sucks
  
  
• [5/5] Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion - incredibly awesome and possibly my overall favorite (2nd season is currently airing), so I'm not going to spoil anything
  
  
• [4/3] Cowboy Bepop - overrated IMO, the story was too episodic for my liking, and not a huge fan of the characters
  
  
• [2/5] Death Note - never watched the last 3rd, but a very suspenseful and interesting story
  
  
• [3/3] ef - a tale of memories - teen drama, based off a pair of visual novels, decent but I really wish they connected the stories
  
  
• [2/2] FLCL - call me stupid, but I don't see why people like it so much
  
  
• [4/4] Mobile Suit Gundam 00 - reminds me of Gundam Wing, series has only aired halfway
  
  
• [3/1] Mobile Suit Gundam Seed - repetitive battles, excessive use of flashbacks, most uninspired overused plot, super-emo protagonist... second half just sucked
  
  
• [-/-] Mobile Suit Gundam Wing - first anime I ever watched so I can't give an objective score, but it blew my mind when I first saw it
  
  
• [4/4] Nodame Cantabile - if you're into nice, simple, fun stories and appreciate classical music
  
  
• [5/-] Ouran High School Host Club - shoujo, but it's great comedy and quite fresh
  
  
• [3/3] Rumbling Hearts - teen drama, also based off a game, decent story
  
  
• [5/3] Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - epic action and fun, extremely disappointed by ending
  
  
• [5/5] The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - by far my favorite non-action anime, and an ending that I truly liked
  
  
• [3/4] true tears - probably the best teen drama I've seen
  

I've wasted a lot of time over the past few months just really thinking about what I want to do with my life, and sadly, I've come up empty handed. So for now until I find something better, my main goal is to make a decent amount of money, and a Wall Street job seems to be the easiest way to do that.

Does anyone have specific life or career goals that motivate and constantly drive them? I feel like some tangible future is really what brings out the most potential in people.

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New favorite song of the week:

I think this is probably my greatest accomplishment in all of 2008. Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov. Actually, recommend me some more sci-fi stuff.

I've read the Ender/Bean series already, as well as the first part of the Dune series. In particular, I enjoy stories in which authors give a realistic picture of how they think the world will turn out in the future. Not a big fan of the more fantasy-ish sci-fi stuff.

I've had this e-mail in my drafts folder for a very long time now, and I've decided that I'm done editing it once and for all. I moved on a long time ago, so I don't feel the need for her to ever read it anymore.

It'll be a waste if nobody does though, so maybe all of you guys who don't know me well enough for it to matter will find this somewhat interesting.

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