A few items that should have happened years ago, but I’m glad to finally report them:
- Women’s Soccer will be back in the US in 2008! Only six teams (including a DC team), but that’s a good start. By the time this league gets underway, I’ll have fulfilled all my PhD requirements except the dissertation, giving me plenty of time to head to DC to watch the Freedom (or whatever their new name will be). Until then, go Wildcats!
- My sophomore year at MIT, I suggested to the administration that they use the free space in W20 (the student center) for my favorite restaurant: Subway! Unfortunately for me, back then LaVerde’s market handled the demand for subs. Recently, however, LaVerde’s became lame (see p.16), and MIT decided to put in a Subway. According to Dawn, it’s still not completed, but when it does I fully expect a dramatic increase in the acceptance rate among MIT admits!
- I finally solved the problem that I came to grad school for (mostly). I presented the solution at the Princeton Methodology seminar on Friday and received good feedback. Look for the working paper to be posted on my CV page in about a month.
- The DNC finally decided that having one voter file in all 50 states is a good idea! No kidding. And they couldn’t have picked a better company to contract with, VAN. It’s the only propriety voter file solution that I hear anything good about.
In NCAA news, my 5 teams this year (for my uncle’s pool): Florida, UNC, UCLA, Texas A&M, and Tennessee. So far, I’ve got one win out of Texas A&M.
You meant a subway restaurant! I thought you meant they were putting in a T station.
You are ridiculous, Aaron. RIDICULOUS!
Also, the number of admitted students who accept a school’s offer isn’t called the acceptance rate, it’s called the yield. Just another fun tidbit from your favorite Admissions Committee member.
Hence my modifier of “restaurant” before the first use of Subway. And that’s enough with the all caps for you, Lupin ;)
And, yes, yield! That’s exactly what I meant — thanks for the clarification.
you solved the problem? WHICH problem? the problem of how to find persuadables? i can’t stand the suspense!
The problem of Presidential state resource allocation (or at least, one facet of it). The “how to find persudables” problem has been solved by microtargeters/pollsters. One important result of this technological change is that the inefficient NCEC “persuadability index” is now pretty much obsolete.