What can I say. It was exhilarating and exhausting. 220 students from 72 countries with 2600 years of accumulated professional experience.
Two tests - one on quantitative methods and one on economics so they can place us in the right stream. Summer school is all about accelerated learning to help people that have been away from study cope with the academic rigours of the course. Quant was a nightmare, economics less so. Met a whole new bunch of people.
The academic staff who welcomed us had lots of wisdom to impart. Frank Hartman, Summer Program Faculty Chair talked about us "not selling ourselves cheaply for the urgency of the moment", a trap we are all guilty of - confusing the urgent with the important.
Any how Day 1 is over. I look forward to tomorrow.
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