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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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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And by that, we mean our “Nap Training” labor! Baby R has been napping pretty consistently in her crib. If you were following our “Nap Training Diaries”, then you’ll know Nap #2 was consistently a short 30-minute nap. Well… last week, she managed to lengthen that nap! The range is now anywhere between 30 minutes […]
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The highlight of our week was our beach filled weekend! On Friday night, we attended a beach bonfire! Every year (prior to the pandemic) the Theory Group of UCLA’s Econ PhD program has a beach bonfire for the students and faculty. We mentioned this in previous posts, but students choose one or two specialties by […]
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Jake wrapped up teaching this past week! What an experience it was designing and running his own course for the first time! He really enjoyed the freedom of deciding what topics to cover in his course. He wishes he could’ve taught in person, but it was still a good experience. As soon as he submitted […]
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The big highlight of the week for Cindy was watching the Olympics, with Baby R, basically all day long. Having the Olympics on somehow made the days and the week go by so fast! It’s just nice to have it on in the background while nursing or during Baby R’s playtime. Now that it’s over, […]
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But first… the biggest highlight of our week was getting our maternity shoot pictures!! Sharing some of our favorites below: Other highlights: Jake’s ATC Jake Advanced to Candidacy (ATC)!! Prior to this, Jake was just a PhD student. Now, he is a PhD candidate! Wooo! Go Jake! It was a very stressful and busy week […]
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Jake officially finished PhD Year 2!!!!!!! We survived another year! (just 3 more to go!) While the quarter officially ended back in June, Jake and his peers had until the end of July to turn in their Year 2 Papers (basically research papers for their chosen fields within Economics). For anyone who is curious, Jake’s […]
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jake & cindy 