"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard." -Edgar R. Fiedler
Today's list is a guest post from fellow Australian MPP1, lawyer and kool-aid poisoning victim, Claudia Newman-Martin. With her love of compulsory fun, interim deadlines and worksheets, Claudia brings you a list of things to love about Spring Exercise:
- I like spending time with people, particularly Kennedy School people. Spring Exercise (SpEx) mandates that four people spend A LOT of time with me for two whole weeks. Mandatory friendships are the best.
- Have you noticed that Americans always say 'God bless you' after someone sneezes? What could be better than a forum full of Americans saying 'God bless you' in unison, quite loudly, in the middle of presentations? SpEx could not be more timely given the pollen count.
- Anything is better than 8.40am Market Regulation. Without SpEx that's what we would be doing for the next two weeks.
- Watching Julia's reactions to people's analysis of Australian policy interventions is amazing. SpEx = two solid weeks of Julia pulling skeptical faces [Julia: 1. I am also a horrendous poker player. 2. Seems very unlikely that Australia will come up again as a policy case study]
- I actually like team work. Weird, I know.
- My very vocal love of SpEx pre-dated the commencement of SpEx Now that everybody's low expectations have been exceeded, I have been proved correct in my assessment of SpEx as great. Being proved right always feels amazing.
- SpEx has allowed me to be paired with the two biggest libertarians I know. It has forced both libertarians to accept that there is some role for government intervention, somewhere. I feel that this is just the beginning of what will be a gradual evolution of said libertarians' views. Prediction: they will become bigger 'big government' fans than I am by the end of our degrees.
- SpEx allowed me to contribute my first ever blog post to the world, and to become the first guest blogger on Julia's blog.
Good luck on 7!
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