Environmental Economics and Sustainab...zzz...zzz

I'm actually writing this post as I study, the night before the EC240 final. Shows you how stressed I am about the exam (I need a -5 to pass the class). This class isn't nearly as intellectually demanding as IPE, but there are still interesting aspects. First of all, it is really more of an economics class dealing with the math and graphs, CBA, and the theoretically optima and efficiency behind policies. There is still a focus on the intuition behind the math though, which is a challenge, but is very useful in understanding. We have covered several topics including the different types and uses of resources, sustainability, and the economics behind pollution, all of which are a little different than you would intrinsically assume and are interesting to learn about. Eric is a good professor, as he obviously knows a lot about the field and explains topics well, but he often moves very slow through the material and expresses his own opinions a little too much. Jonathan, the TF, is just straight up bad. He is that geeky TF that tries to be your cool friend (he has twice offered to get drinks at the pub after class - I don't think anyone has gone) but is really just annoying. He wastes half of every class talking about the most basic stuff (literally 15 minutes on making sure we draw graphs big) and then speeds through the class material, not leaving any time for questions. The one time I did ask a question, it was clear he didn't know anything about the topic beyond what he had prepared on his slides. Poor evaluation from me, John. Anyway, I definitely have learned some new concepts in EC240 and it has been a good review to get me back into the economics mindset before Intermediate Economics and Econometrics this year at Yale.