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...reverted to a habit she had developed over winter break: she went down to the first floor of UHS and locked herself in a bathroom, away from everyone and alone with her thoughts. By the time her cell phone rang, it had been five hours, yet she had no idea so much time had passed. Her parents were on the other line. They threatened to call the police if she wouldn’t tell them her location...
...entirely student-run production that combines fashion, dance and music, drawing around 2,000 students. While it is the models who are the visual stars of the show, the heart of Eleganza is the executive production team. They are the ones who have to pull everything together. Yet somehow they seem to be managing; somehow they seem to be completely on top of things...
Meanwhile, the models are losing focus, struggling through moves they clearly haven’t learned yet. El-Hage is not impressed. “The show’s one week away,” she scolds. “You should be able to do it on your own now; you’re freaking me out!” A moment of silence, then the other two execs diffuse the tension with a laugh: they know when to play good cop. Rehearsals resume, a bit more in earnest, and soon enough the kinks are ironed out. Later...
Saturday afternoon, 2:00. Eleganza is having a full run-through. The SOCH, usually a symbol of architectural and institutional awkwardness, is pounding with huge beats and bold moves. The clothes haven’t arrived yet, so the models follow their natural style: a hodgepodge mix ranging from designer skirts and cutaway tops to DHAs and slogan T-shirts...
...best predictors of human and market behavior. Put simply, their point is that mistakes may be made, but economics as a field can only be useful with mathematical modeling as the central pillar of analysis. Based on growing amounts of data, models may be incomplete, yet they are also perfectible. Such trust is essential, since it assumes that fully determined outcomes are possible and that more data can overcome any shortcoming...