and the macro class continues to be entertaining as ever!!

except that all i have gained from it so far are interesting anecdotes...

"the good thing about econometrics is that you can get exactly what you want ...if you can't then obviously you haven't studied econometrics well enough!!"

our director is against the over mathematisation of economics...which is a good thing...but only after you have mastered the language of numbers and are in a position to call it bunkum!! and the way i am progressing...it's going to take a lifetime...

realised that being a graduate in economics from mumbai univ is the worst possible thing ever for a student of economics...of course pune university comes a close second to us!! the IS-LM theory never looked so complicated when i wrote it for the BA exam...it looks all marred now at that MA level with weird greek letters distributed generously all over it!! so tried to act smart again...and..tried to read Mr. Keynes and the Classics by Hicks...(which is the origin of the IS-LM)..gave up in some time..thanks to more mundane compulsions like mastering partial and total differentiation...

have to go now...have to tackle Econometrics!!

About yet another Freshers' party...to my list of many...hahaha..feel archaic...

but i guess this is where it ends...isn't anything to write about...except that i was surrounded by several 20 year olds...many of whom were totally aghast at watching their fellow batchmates getting drunk...and jumping off chairs...after watching classmates getting high on DD (Dope and Daru) Parties at Journalism School...this felt like Pre school...

so where did i leave you my fellow beings...ah ..yes of course...life at gokhale...hmmm...managed a 50 percent in my first test..(thank god it isn't being counted)...i am beginning to seriously doubt my future as an economist...i don't even have questions to ask...and the first step (i have been told) to becoming a good 'anything' is asking the right questions...

does having the right intentions qualify enough to become a good economist...i doubt...but then again i don't doubt that seriously enough...coz right now i have been reduced to an Android's existence...where life begins at dawn...and way after the dogs start howling...which leaves me with scarce time to question anything outside the ambit of the syllabus...i have been reduced to everything that i was afraid to reduce myself into...

i broke all records yesterday as i attended college for a marathon 8 and a half hours...with just half an hour for lunch...

my only refrain from the world so far has been flipping through the Communist Manifesto as i lay on my yellow bedsheet draped bed on sunday and indulged in pretence once again as i dreamt of changing the world...

the terrible tryst with math continues...

had a micro test today...knew everything..but took too long to calculate...so couldn't complete my paper...kicked myself so hard in the posterior that i am actually doing all the typing right now standing...

have discovered all kinds of freaks here...there is one who has a persecution complex...obviously from delhi...she has this.." I am a child genius who has been denied her due" attitude...thoroughly entertaining though to watch her pine...quite vociferously...ironic that i am going to be singing Vincent by Don Mclean for Pulse (it's the college fest..and we all have to participate and no one from my team is willing to risk singing..)

the punju kids from Delhi are the funniest to watch...they insist on eating at Barista at least once a week...so that they do not lose out on the good things in life far away from home...after all they are from the 'hipper' parts of the world...

i am sleep deprived and starved of conversations...dreams have turned to nightmares with calculus doing his regular vists every night...he hasn't failed me even once so far...

am presenting a Marxist debate on colonialism vis a vis the neo classicals...

can't this quote of Joan Robinson out of my head...she speaks of the IS LM which has been attributed to Keynes (apparently quite wrongly coz it was actually an American economist Hanson who developed it and was later popularised by Samuelson)

..so she calls it the 'Bastard Keynesianism'!! ( she was his student...)

I doff my hat to that!! made my macro class worth writing about...

finally...i get to know what it is like being confronted by a keyboard...coz for the last two weeks all that i have encountered are books, paper...pens...a strange language called Math...and even stranger people...

to update all of you out there about my life and 'companions' here... there are some 15 odd women from Delhi...strange what that city does to women..coz all of them still seem to be stuck in Barbie Land!! they do everything in a group of 15..from going out for cacophonic dinners to equally loud walks...and they insist on eating only at Pizza Hut or McDonalds...( I was even stared at quite strangely for not knowing what McD's (that's how the cool people from Delhi call McDonanlds) stood for...the seniors treat us juniors like court jesters...so everytime they don't feel sleepy..they decide to wake us up and make us entertain them...all kinds of things from singing...to acting like idiots...

my roomie is from Meghalaya..her first time out of the north east...she looks like a scoop of butterscotch...i couldn't have asked for more...she looks straight out of a Johnson's Baby Soap Ad!!

more on the city...the city is awesome..especially the weather...have been going on long walks all over the place...i don't even feel the need for transport...

as for class....i have realised that Math is the secret to happiness in life...hence i will never be happy in life...sigh!! the only class that i do well in is Economic History...and the prof who is right wing..pretty much appreciates my participation...although it is at the risk of being called a 'geek' by the rest of the class...

have been getting used to various pronounciations of my name...from 'Bibha' to 'Viva' to 'Bhiva'...it's an exhilirating experience...trust me...

just took a math test today...did miserably...most probably will have to take it again at the end of the semester..which does not leave me any time to even stare at the flowers on campus...oh the rigours i have to go through to save the world!! (good ol' pretentious me is back in form here!!)

my Loomie (Loomie = Loo Mate..just as Roomie=Room mate...that's coz she shares only the loo with me and my roomie...) finally spoke today...i had almost suspected that she was an android...coz we didn't manage to strike even a monosyllabic conversation with her...only a cordial nodding of heads..although her nod was more of a grim 'hmm..i approve of you so far'...

life so far revolves around classes and the library...am extremely overwhelmed at the moment by the world of Economics...

To Shreya!!
the biggest warmest hug ever!!

To Suhas!!
Miss you too much!!

To Zeb!!
Do you think i am worthy enough for Economics?

To Prathamesh!!
Am fine...looks like all the crowd from Delhi has descended upon Pune..so life should be nicer from now on for you!! :)

To Gaurav!!
The Best Math Teacher ever!!