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    October 05

    第一天开学

    这段日子是快乐了些。第一天上课就感到 课程挺紧张的。以后不能传照片,娱乐大众了。Don't miss me too hard:)
     
    今天Empirical analysis,以学过一年研究生计量作前提要求,所有panel data, limited dependant variable, time series知识都是直接用,直接讲publicated Paper了。
    主要内容就是微观和宏观各种各样的theory的实证研究。那些经济学看着都很扯的假设或者技巧为什么用的那么广,都是在实证中发现了证据才这样近似处理。
    种种知识都可以从这个课里学到。这门课很好。非常值得听,但我不知道值不值得选修。毕竟只有6个学生学,还有人想退。再下去就老师就比学生多了。
    作业要求:自学Stata和GAUSS,TA给几个程序例子算作一个Introduction 。不过程序大体是不难的。程序学起来大多不难,只是要花些时间而已。
    学期结束的paper占一半的分数,这个很难写好。
    我挺想学Stochastic Process. 但是因为我是Research Student track, 按要求,必须要写一篇Paper. 要选一门写paper的课。
    所以可能不得不选Empirical Analysis.
     
    明天上Topics in Econometrics的seminar,也是讲paper的。
    这门课更难。更偏向于Nonparametric,boottraps, non-linear time-series
    和year2, year3的PhD一起上课,很有用的课。全都是大牛上课,讲他们自己的文章,收获肯定很大。
    不过每年只有10人左右选课。每年考试1/3人挂科。而我们算是First year必须要得到First/second Honor才能继续读下去。(PhD们只要pass就行,他们的重点是research)
     
    候选课第三个选择是 统计系的Stochastic Process, Non-linear Time series, Genelized Linear Model....中间选两门。
     
    我至今还在犹豫3门选2,怎么选。。 直接选3门计量? Production Externality在这儿不知道奏效不...
     
    我看了看教务选课专栏,写全校挂科率排名。非常不幸的是前5就我们的课程占了3个,所有的课都在前20名。。。挂科率都在20%以上吧。。。
    但是老师说这也算好消息。挂科率高,一般First Honor也就多。所以你要么读的非常好,要么非常糟。两极分化。
    每年我们项目十几个人,30%的人得到了最终Distinction,能survival。这个数字倒不是那么糟糕。
     
    题海战术。I hate it. But I have to take it. Again, don't miss me too much:)

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    ZHEN YAOwrote:
    才开学啊。。。
    Oct. 7
    Heather ZOUwrote:
    Econometrics is extremely hard for me, but 100% sure that you can survive.
    Oct. 6

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