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This weekend I will be attending the Advanced Topics in Liberty conference in DC on ‘Economics and a Free People‘, sponsored by IHS and the Liberty Fund. Instead of flying (all travel expenses are refunded) I have chosen to try taking Amtrak instead, since airport security takes up about the same amount of time and I can pretend I’m on the Chattanooga Choo Choo. It’ll be nice to meet up with the friends I met over the summer - some are in DC and others are also at the conference - and talk about economic philosophy, which is somewhat excluded from the curriculum in my school. The conference schedule seems very similar to the conservative one in Indianapolis I went to earlier this year… I wonder if liberal student conferences are also scheduled this way. Must get invited to one of those sometime.

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Life is a road and I want to keep going/ Love is a river I want to keep flowing/
In the end I want to be standing at the beginning with you/
— Richard Marx & Donna Lewis, ‘At the beginning’, Anastasia OST

At the beginning of a new school year, I look back on the previous one. I look to all the plans that I made and all the promises I broke, and wonder what happened.

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Six classes, three of which are quantitative, the other three are heavy reading, which I think is a fair balance to an otherwise unbalanced work-life ethic. Can I handle these? And my own self-study? And work a campus job? And do what I do anyway (writing and languages)? Let’s see.

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