I am thinking really hard about what class to take next term. i am really really sick of theories. rite now ppl are asking me to take Jude Hays class again next term. easy credit they say, 20% is already covered this semester so we are getting a head start. but the thing with that class is that it is so theoretical. trade theories, social theories blah blah blah... shit man, one things i hate abt school is tat it tok so much about those how-it-is-suppose-to-work kinda crap. i rather do case study first then learn from there. Prof is trying to balance the two but it is more like 80% theory and 20% real life stuff. and even tat 20% i can't exactly vision it... so it is bad.
maybe that is y i am haveing so much problems with econ. all those models are just not making sense to me. ok fine, we calculate all the preference set, monopoly rules and all tat shit. SO? how the fuck in this world are you gonna noe wat kind of preference curve you are gonna use? how do you noe wat kind of budget set your customers are gonna have? this ain't making sense at all. then all tat 102 thing about close econ assumption and blah blah blah... er... it is just like tat ridiculous joke about a trapped economist on an island trying to open a can food by "first assuming we have a can opener"... wtf... this is just frustrating... well... it is just my temper eh? it is just me eh?
how can you sit in a room whole day and tok theory and theory when you noe for a fact that half the time it ain't gonna work in the real world. no disrespect to those academics out there. but it is precisely this kind of teaching that you produce students like janet that believes has NO IDEA that japan has one of the strongest and most advance army in the world coz "aren't they not suppose to have an army?!?!?" omg... yeah... those horrible theories that i am sure they memoriesed by hard and hold on dear like a holy guide. sigh... i am not disputing the need of these theories. coz it gives a systematic way of analysing a situation. but i think current academic is just so freaking engross is trying to systemise EVERYTHINg tat did they eva pause to think if it is even gonna work in practise? and tat is precisely why the freaking IMF and WB failed miserably during crisis time. you get a bunch of academic tat is top of their profession. full of theoretical understanding of how things work and you dump them into real life situations. and see wat happened? everything tat is suppose to work in theories failed to materialise in real life. and in the end, you get ppl like Mahathir that seems to have the last laugh but did tremendous damage to the prestige of the international institute. what Mahathir did in the financial sector to IMF and WB is exactly wat Bush did to UN. by acting unitarially, and disregard the current world order, it sets a very negative example and deeply discredits the international institute that governs the world in tat aspect. ok.... so Mahathir "proved" that capital control in extreme times is a good effective way of weathering thru such crisis... and so does Bush "prove" that the i-strike-first method is the best way of defence for a country. so next time, countries as and when they deem fit, can just shut of their market from foreigners, nationalise all foreign investments like Cuba and claim that it has proven by Dr M tat it is needed under the current situation their country is facing... and once China has upgraded its army enough, can launch missles and attacks on countries like Pakistan or Taiwan and claim tat for the security of the country, it needs to strike first to safeguard the nation and the world from "renegade" (renegade coz it say so, coz it want to say so... you got a goddamn freaking problem with tat?!?!) states like those it is after!! what kind of world will this be then?
so back to my original pt. learning all theories are really fucked up. i am like ONE STEP away from the real world out there and i am still spending 80% of the time learning how it is SUPPOSE to work and not how it IS working? this is just BS and loada crap to me man. luckily i am taking Prof Lieberthal's class to keep my sainity. and if you look at it. so far i am onli doing well for this type of classes and getting average grade for those tat give 20% of the real world insight... and the rest are just shit. sorry... i just ain't cut out for all these nonsense and at this stage of my life, i dun feel tat there is a need for me to take this shit anymore. so... the plan now is find a REAL class and perhaps mix them up with some of those 20% classes. yup... tat's the plan. or should i say the theory of how i plan to work?!?!? MUAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
posted by David at 11/18/2003 04:30:00 PM