fatvegan

I love econometrics. It's so much fun. And so clever. And incredibly useful. I think I like it more than accounting maybe. There are so many things I want to do with it now. It's so tops at explaining what you can do with stats and why. And what you can't do. It's great to find out all these things you can do. And helpful to know that some things you just can't.

The theory behind it blows my mind. There are all these different shapes (distributions) that explain how various statistical measures vary in practice. I think it's just groovy that these nice elegant curves are embedded in nature and everything. If you drew a chi-squared or F-distribution, and sent it to an alien species, there's a good chance they'd know exactly what you were talking about. It's just brilliant. And from there you could use the ratios to explain decimals and basic maths. All without using a proper language I reckon. The proofs too are so elegant. They make me really jealous of the clever folk who did them. It's all beautiful. I can understand why dad has some much fun with it. You don't have to be nearly as smart or nerdy as I thought - although some may think I sound a little nerdy. But honestly, you should try it. It's very edifying.

I'm thinking about starting a wireless internet business, and every time I sit down to do econometrics homework it gives me ideas for ways I could make the business work better. There is so much good, cheap, effective technology out there now and people aren't really using it. It's actually not good. I was momentarily tempted to drop uni for a year, and go try start that business. Financing would be the only major problem. Which is really the main reason I couldn't do it while I was at university. I'd have to have another job at first to help pay for some initial research and software development. But it would be so much fun. I'd need a partner too though, and I can't think of anyone that would want to. Trying to think about the sort of person who might make a good partner has made me realise how useful accounting skills are. I think that would almost be at the top of the list.

Sadly, starting a business wouldn't get me any closer to saving the world. And saving the world is the reason I'm really at university. If it was just about the money, it might be different.