Wow, what a day and it still isn't over. In fact, I could say it has been a busy two days. Last night I had night class which is made even better because I have it after baseball practice. It is a very good thing they have coffee available. On a bright note though I got my last paper back and it was an A, though I wasn't really proud of it. The writing was sub par and I didn't have time to get it edited. Anyway, after night class I got home and stayed up doing a little reading but I had to get up at 4:30 this morning because I went to a conference today at the Federal Reserve in St. Louis titled "Economic Forces in History."
I arrived, along with another teacher, at the Federal Reserve about 7:30. It was business casual though I have found that when someone says business casual it usually means wear a damn tie. So we are walking towards the Fed and I feel really important. I mean how do you not? I am walking tie and all towards the Fed entrance. No one knows that I am a teacher going in for a workshop on Economic History, for all they know I am a big wig banker who is about to do some dealing. Oh and by the way the building is AMAZING! Marble floors, "gold" plated elevator doors, and the auditorium where we sat was great; nice leather chairs, microphones where you were sitting so you don't have to yell and great projecting equipment. I mean we even had servers picking up our plates after lunch.
Most of you are probably asking why in the world are they doing all this for a bunch of economics teachers. Well, from what I gather it is because the state of economic education is terrible. People have no idea how it works, nor do they care. However, at the same time they are voting on HUGE economic issues which they don't even understand. So we are trying to change that so they are trying to get teachers to come in and learn about economics and use it in the classroom even if they don't teach just an economics class.
Ok, I am exhausted...
1 comment:
I kind of LOVE economics! It just makes everything... make sense! ha! I am kind of jerlous I couldnt go!
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