Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Slightly Enlightened
100000 thanks to Neil, my tutor for EC3303, for taking time off his busy Monday for consultation with Kaiwei, Wee Lai, Zhimin and me.
"First consultation in my NUS life" I told Tianhao as he walked by. It just shows how the stake has changed this sem isn't it?
It was really a great feeling being able to clarify the confusion caused by the notes.
Other than getting answers of why certain things are being shown in the notes, I finally understand the underlying problem to why I don't get the Summations, Variances, E (X)s etc.
The basics! It was great of Neil to lend us his econometrics book, and seeing the Appendix, the basics of econometrics. I suddenly realised how shaky my foundations were, and how my concepts were just pure copying of the notes, instead of knowing the underlying meanings of Summations, Variances, Means, E(X)s etc. Seeing the Appendix (very very late I know) made me really really enlightened. It was as if light shone out from the book, and my previous queries were suddenly answered. I'm really very very grateful.
Also a special thanks to Zhimin for photocopying chapters 4 and 5 of the textbook. Seeing how the textbook explains the concepts and lists the formula only make me realise how much Lee Jin's notes sucked. Thanks Bro! =)
I've just went back through the tutorials and sample midterms. I'm still stuck a little, but at least I understand what's going through the notes, instead of grasping at thin air. It's great feeling in control of what you're studying again, instead of being totally blurred out by the notes.
The final battle lies tomorrow. Fight!
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