Sunday, September 19, 2010

I'll Learn to Get By

Earlier this week, I popped into Whitecastle's office, as I often do, with a question.

"Have you read Ariely's Predictably Irrational?"

"I have the book, but not yet."

"I think it has some great relevance to your trial."

Then we got into a discussion on whether this guy's body of work supported or weakened our study rationales (by 'our,' I mean Whitecastle's) and the implications of his writing for research.

It all ended with Whitecastle saying, "well that's great, maybe we'll cite him in the paper." Victories like that, short and simple as they are, make me think that the school isn't completely scamming me out of $50K a year. I'm learning, I'm putting it to good use, and I'm a big kid now.

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