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…would be what some MIGHT say about the beginning of a new school year.  I’m interrupting my electronic “unplugged” week today to do a bit of housekeeping here and there, but will largely be offline for the rest of the last week of summer vacation.  One reason I opted for this “unplugged” week is that [...]

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Forgive that Rocky Horror Picture Show reference, please, although if you’re not familiar owing to youth or if campy midnight audience-participation films are not your cup of tea, I apologize.  I know my casual American pop-culture references might make for some undesired confusion, but the fact that I speak in these metaphors actually types me quite [...]

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Greetings, readers, I am writing you from a Milano computer lab while some of us await our whole class to complete our economics final.  I am nervous about this since it felt like it went well which could portend badly for my results, but the important thing for the moment is: Year One is now [...]

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One of the perks of Facebook, Twitter, etc. is that while you, faithful part-time Milano student, are ensconced with your Economics textbook, notebook, calculator, and are schlepping everywhere to TRY to keep up with your work is that you get to see your full-time students adventures’ in what has been coined “The Summer of Greatness”.   [...]

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One of the hardest things about Thanksgiving “break”  is that you have only one proper day “off” really; and if you are all in town and you’re like most of the people I’ve talked to, that meant that even though there were international crises and a holiday, we still convened at some point (or more [...]

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