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It’s sort of awkward being a college journalist.Sure, as far as journalists go, we’re blessed. Most of the events we need to cover occur within a half-mile radius of our homes (Quadlings excluded), our subjects and sources eat meals in the same dining halls as we, and we don’t have to work with schmucks like Joe Morgan. Of course, for every 10 home games we cover, there’s a trip down the ever-dangerous Muller Hill Road, but professional journalists generally have much more trying lives than student...
This isn’t just some paean to my antisocial tendencies, but rather a testament to something that I think one rarely gets at Harvard: a second to breathe, alone, out of the spotlight of the relentlessly demanding student body. We live in crowded dorm rooms, we eat in communal dining halls, we participate in extracurricular activities to an almost unfathomable degree, and, when we’re not doing all that, we’re in sections with other people arguing about Durkheim or extracting DNA from strawberries. There is a strange pressure...
...undergraduates at Harvard indicate that these final two reasons are the key factors behind economics’ popularity. Students often say that in contrast to most settings, choosing a concentration does not involve a tradeoff: economics is both practical and interesting. Economics majors can have their cake and eat...
...paying with credit cards less painful? When we pay with cash we consume and pay at the same time, but when we pay with a credit card we are decoupling the timing of consumption from payment. We eat now and pay later, making the pain of paying lower and the enjoyment from the meal higher. We can even push the pain of paying to a more extreme level. Imagine that when you step into the restaurant the waiter tells you that the average diner eats about 50 bites and spends about $50 in this restaurant, making it a dollar...
...been trained to associate with food. He scampers over and snatches his banana from Emmanuel, devouring it in a couple of quick bites. To maintain their conditioning, the rats require regular training when they're not in the field - and on training days, from Monday to Friday, they only eat what they earn. Later, when a rat named Grigory fails to adequately signal the presence of one of the dummy mines, Emmanuel withholds his reward. "Tomorrow he will know that he needs to better," he says...