a weekly log of our everyday life
as an Assistant Professor of Economics at UNC Chapel Hill!!!! We’ll be moving to North Carolina this summer! We still have mixed feelings about it all. Grateful for this amazing opportunity for Jake. But so sad to be leaving our friends and family & most of all Los Angeles. But we’re trusting that good things […]
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Jake returned from nearly two weeks of flyouts on Tuesday! Cindy and Toddler R were SO SO SO happy he was back!!! They really missed him and he them. But we didn’t quite get to relax upon his return. We had a big week ahead of us. For one, it was Cindy’s last day of […]
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Jake was away again this past week for a second round of flyouts. This round of flyouts was probably much harder than the first even though we both knew what we were in for. For Jake, it was all about keeping up his energy and momentum and making sure each meeting and job talk came […]
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Jake had back-to-back-to-back flyouts on the East Coast last week! While exciting, it also meant he was apart from Cindy and Toddler R for one entire week. It’s the longest we’ve been apart since being married. And the longest he’s been away from Toddler R ever. It was difficult but we survived! For Jake, the […]
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We started Jake’s Ph.D. Journey exactly 4 years ago. At the time, 5 years of our lives on a reduced income and living like college students again felt like it would last an eternity. We wondered how we would fare financially with Cindy being the primary breadwinner. Would we still be able to experience major […]
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“Revise and Resubmit” that is! That’s the big highlight of the week!!! A few months ago, Jake and his colleague submitted a paper they wrote to a journal. The chances of getting your paper accepted in this journal are very VERY slim. In fact, in the field of economics, it is extremely difficult to get […]
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jake & cindy 