The first and second weeks of class have come and gone. My adviser and professor for a course titled Natural Resource Economics is a man by the name of Dr. Coal. Dr. Coal loves coal and tends to talk down about other minerals why he lectures. He’s a quirky man who skips from side to side while discussing the course materials. I don’t take notes, but rather write down funny things he says.
“If you’re interested in a subject, the worst thing you can do is go buy a textbook……boring as sshhiiiit.”
“Hit ’em over the head three times and things just stick.” -On how to write an effective essay.
“Screw Canada!”
“I think in stories, not math.”
“Let’s imagine you fell asleep and it’s 2 years later.” -On when to harvest your forest and invest the money.
“When I was younger and a little bit hipper, we used to go to this club in Seattle. They had two rooms: 80’s music and 70’s music. It’d be like, which room should we go to? Let’s go to the 80’s room and dance! So we go to the 80’s room. Then its like, well we can’t dance in here because it’s so crowded! Let’s go to the 70’s room. Then we’re like, oh its not so crowded in here but this music sucks. Eventually it gets to a point where they equally suck or they’re equally cool. And that’s just like economics.”
“I will look the other way and pretend you’re not doing something illegal.”
“So, if you like forests, you should be wasting paper….. That thing on emails, ‘Please consider the environment before printing’…. Yeah, those people are idiots. It’s like No, I’m printing every freaking page. Because then people need timber, and they plant forests.”
As you can tell, I’m learning a lot in my economics program! Seriously though, I have to review and take actual notes after class.
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