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Thank You PLA

by | Apr 15, 2024 | 9 comments

I wanted to dedicate this last blog post to the wonderful people and experience this organization has exposed me to. PLA was without the doubt the best organization I’ve been a part of while at Penn State. It has given me a lot of exposure, whether that is...

Drake Concert

by | Mar 31, 2024 | 1 comment

Drake is gonna perform today and I’m very excited. This is a once in a lifetime event. We are 21 at Penn State and can watch the most famous popstar/rapper from our generation perform for relatively cheap tickets. It’s insane. I took a look at his setlist...

Thesis Grind Update

by | Mar 16, 2024

The last time I wrote about my thesis, I was in a pretty bad situation. I felt really far behind and was not at all prepared to submit a completed draft on March 1st. Since then I’ve made good progress and have been able to slow down and think about the process...

Thesis Grind

by | Feb 18, 2024 | 2 comments

If anyone else is stressing about their thesis, I can relate and urge you to manage the stress in a good way. My first thesis deadline is coming up on March 1st, when the draft will be due. I kinda procrastinated on doing it. My original goal was to complete it by...

Reading

by | Feb 3, 2024 | 1 comment

I feel myself forgetting English. It’s not that I can’t converse well anymore or that I make silly grammar mistakes, but that I feel as though I’ve lost a degree of comprehension I once had. The words I once used to describe opaque ideas have been...

The Offset Concert

by | Jan 20, 2024 | 2 comments

Yesterday I went to the Offset concert hosted by the Penn State SPA. I went with my two roommates and we had an incredible time. I feel very grateful that our school is big enough and has orgs such as the SPA that bring such amazing artists and experiences to our...

Things I’ve Learned About Microfinance

by | Dec 3, 2023

The class I’m taking on developmental economics has broadened my understanding of the multifaceted nature of poverty and the innovative solutions that microfinance offers. I’ve come to appreciate how small financial interventions can lead to significant...

Thesis Research

by | Nov 5, 2023

This semester I’ve begun working on my thesis. After a lengthy process of narrowing things down I have eventually decided to do an analysis of inflation in the UK since COVID. I hope to identify the main factors that contributed to inflation and tell a story of...

Spending Weekends at Home

by | Oct 21, 2023

I’ve spent the past two weekends at home and that has been the most amount of time I’ve spent at home in a semester, especially before Thanksgiving break. I enjoy being home now more than when I first started school. My house is pretty quiet and in a quiet...

Why you pay so much for college

by | Oct 8, 2023 | 3 comments

Intro We were all there when we were told that the college system is in a bubble during the panel discussion at Columbia Law School. Given that Associate Dean Patullo and Dean Mather were speaking, it’s not a surprise that the topic of rising college costs came...