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Virtual Office Hours

Brad DeLong Offers to Answer Econ 100b Questions Through the Internet; and also Offers a Not-So-Free-Lunch Opportunity

Virtual Office Hours

In the last undergraduate class I taught--Economics 1254 at Harvard in 1992-1993--I spent three hours a week in appointments with students. There were 20 of them. I got to spend about 10 minutes a week with each student.

In this course, if I spend three hours a week with each of you, each of you gets some 20 seconds: "Hi. I'm ____ ____." "Brad DeLong." "I have a question about lecture..." "Sorry, your time is up. Next student please!"

So to enhance student-faculty intellectual contact and substantive interchange--or at least the illusion of student-faculty contact and substantive interchange--I am going to be holding virtual office hours:

To participate in virtual office hours:

• Send e-mail to delong@econ.berkeley.edu (putting "Econ 100b Mailing List" as the subject of the message) asking to be added to the "Econ 100b Mailing List"
• Then send questions about the course material to delong@econ.berkeley.edu, putting "Econ 100b Mailing List" as the subject of the message.
• I will answer the questions--and then send them, questions and answers, in digest form, to all subscribers to the Econ 100b Mailing List.
• With luck, we will be able to develop a Frequently-Asked-Questions document that will be of use to other people taking macro now and in the future as well.

Not-So-Free Lunch with Professor DeLong

I hereby invite the undergraduates in Econ 100b to join me for lunch at "The Stuffed Inn" (one of the Economics Department's standard hangouts; a sandwich place; on Euclid near Hurst (address: 1829 Euclid Ave.); northside) at 11:30 on the appropriate Wednesday that corresponds to the first letters of their last names:

• January 31, 1996; A-B
• February 7, 1996; C-D
• February 14, 1996; E-F
• February 21, 1996; G-H
• February 28, 1996; I-J
• March 6, 1996; K-L
• March 13, 1996; M-N
• March 20, 1996; O-P
• April 3, 1996; Q-S
• April 10, 1996; T-V
• April 17, 1996; W-Z