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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We ended our looOOooOOoong and busy week with a sushi making night! It was a much needed and much deserved (IOHO) dose of fun! The night was hosted by Jake’s friends from his PhD program. We learned the process from the wife of Jake’s PhD classmate (who is from Japan). Jake sheepishly admitted that he […]
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Two big highlights this past week: PhD Year 2 Jake started the second year of his Economics PhD program! And like we mentioned before…it’s going to be a crazy busy year for him (and us.) This year, on top of his program coursework, Jake will be a Teaching Assistant (TA)! This means he will need […]
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We made it through Jake’s first year in his Economics PhD program at UCLA! Now just 4 more years to go… lol. He’s still got 3 comprehensive exams to take this month, so we’re not quite out of the woods yet. But he’s done with classes and finals, so we’re counting year 1 as done!! […]
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jake & cindy 