Next year

Penn it is...but do I really know what I'm doing?

MIT

I think this about says it all:

"Dear Mr. Hedlund,

Thank you for your recent application to the Economics Ph.D. program. Our admissions committee has reviewed the applications and made the difficult decisions of whom to admit. Unfortunately, you have not been admitted to the program.

Please keep in mind that we received approximately 700 applications for 20-22 places in our program. There are many well-qualified applicants we were not able to admit due to lack of space in our program. We greatly appreciate your interest in MIT and wish you the best of luck in your future studies."

Decision Time...

It's March, which means it's about time that I hear from the graduate schools I applied to in order to get an economics PhD. In the order that the department appears in the picture above (from left to right, top to bottom), here are the results so far:

Harvard & MIT - unknown yet dubious (several people have apparently already received offers)
Princeton - rejected
Penn - accepted with funding
NSF Grant - wildcard (will hear at the end of March)

Now let's all just cross our fingers and hope for acceptances, or at least waitlists (and then a positive response on the NSF grant)...

Cool Pictures

As far as I can tell, there is no relevance to me including the link here, but they're just so cool:

http://www.thesimplegallery.com/pictures.php

Principles of Economics

Maybe this is where the advocates of energy price-gouging legislation learned their economics. (courtesy Greg Mankiw)