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Well, it looks like I haven’t written for almost 4 months. Where have I been? I got sidetracked. Also, I took a few trips (one to California, where I visited Martin at Stanford and attended a conference in San Jose, and another trip to Boston, where I visited Mayank and attended a conference with Mark about the GPL at MIT). Most recently, I’ve been focusing on applying to law school.

Writing a personal statement is an excruciating affair. It’s 2 to 3 pages about yourself, and it has to be pretty close to perfect. I had trouble figuring out what to write about, and then once I did I spent another couple weeks of nonstop editing to get it to flow well. Anyway, about $600 later, I’ve sent almost everything in. Now I just have to wait. I’ll hear back in April.

What else have I been up to? Well, a couple of weeks ago, I went to the Emerging Issues Forum. This is a conference run by a group out of NCSU that is chaired by Former Governor Jim Hunt. The Forum is a place to discuss issues of special importance to North Carolina.

This year’s topic was “Financing the Future”, essentially, tax and revenue planning for the future. I decided to go because I thought the list of speakers was amazing: people like Paul Krugman, Bill Richardson, Mark Warner, Steve Forbes, and so on. What I didn’t think about was what the attendees would be like. It was definitely a who’s-who of NC politics and business interests. The talks were very interesting. I took copious notes. I tend to think about these issues on a more national scale, and it was enlightening to hear what people at the local level had to say.

I’ve waited so long to write about it that I don’t have anything really interesting to say, so I’ll just leave it at that.

Tags: politics, school

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