PEIS STAFFING MEMORANDUM
To: PEIS Majors Thinking of Graduating in the Summer or FallDo any PEIS majors out there feel like writing their honors thesis over the summer? We're thinking of offering a summer honors thesis seminar--if there is sufficient demand for it. This is a preliminary "ping" to see if anyone (and how many anyones) are interested.
Drop me and Ms. Katie Dustin notes at delong@econ.berkeley.edu and kdustin@uclink.berkeley.edu if you are...
Posted by DeLong at March 1, 2004 02:56 PM | TrackBack
What is PEIS?
Posted by: Poppy on March 1, 2004 03:03 PMBerkeley major. Political Economy of Industrial Societies.
Posted by: Brad DeLong on March 1, 2004 03:08 PMHeh. I don't go to Berkeley, but I tried writing my thesis last summer. Wanna know how it went? I think I touched one book. It's now March, and I've got my rough draft due in three days.
Three days. Forty pages. Feminists, pornography, and the First Amendment.
I want to die.
Posted by: kormal on March 1, 2004 09:35 PMYou're not afraid of spam, are you?
Posted by: Mats on March 2, 2004 12:10 AMI'd be willing to do an honors thesis seminar on PIES this summer, but not PEIS.
Posted by: Julian Elson on March 2, 2004 06:50 AMA conversation in 1979 (?) in Stephens Hall.
Peer advisor: Why do you want to major in PEIS?
Almost Junior: I have done a lot of research on undergraduate majors at Berkeley, and I have determined that....
PEIS is the only major on campus that rhymes backwards and forwards.
Peer advisor: ???
Political Economy
Industrial Society [sic]
Societies Industrial
Economy Political
Oops.
The couplets should have been creditted to Almost Junior.
Posted by: Marcus Sitz on March 2, 2004 09:23 AMIf that applied to me that would be great, I was always more productive during my summer sessions.
Posted by: jared on March 2, 2004 09:40 AMI'd love to, but somehow I doubt my background in machine learning, crypto, and linear algebra qualify me. *sigh* That's what I get for taking a computer science degree.
Posted by: Nick on March 2, 2004 02:02 PMYou're also a Columbia student...
Posted by: Brad DeLong on March 2, 2004 02:41 PMI like that Berkeley still *has* a degree with something so quaint as *Industrial* in the title- since we have almost no industry left in this country. Too bad I have the job, children, and wife that would object to a nice six week sabbatical at Berkeley over the summer- something about maintaining my overleveraged household that is "artfully and successfully managed" according to dear leader Greenspan...
Posted by: Allen M on March 3, 2004 02:51 PM