My Econ Alias Blog Econ 490 (John Maynard Keynes)

In the case of the school giving out Illinibucks instead of the current ranking system it has now, which is just priority-based, would be a very confusing but also beneficial system in the long run. I believe that not everyone should get the same amount of Illinibucks   and that the amount of Illinibucks should be based on a priority system in order to reward those who have “worked harder” in school. Allocating the Illinibucks based on their year in school and the ratio of GPA and how hard the courses/major you are in. In order to determine the difficulty of the major, I would take the average GPA of people in that major for the year and factor that into the ratio of allocating Illinibucks somehow. This system would not be applicable for incoming freshmen and transfer students because they have not yet developed a GPA with the University. By using this allocation system you keep priority but even break priority down more to account for the grade inflation amongst ...

In my Co-Op at Ashland, I was the intern of the engineering team of four engineers and an engineering manager. Our team worked on fifteen different chemical products were each engineer worked with three to four products each. As the intern, I helped each engineer with whichever projects needed to get done for them when it came to managing the production of the chemicals that they were in charge of. In general, the team definitely had a one boss arrangement at the surface. My boss seemed to be very stressed and would always work around ten-hour days for the most part. I would say he was very demanding and there were not enough people on our team handle all that was needed to be done in the time that he wanted. On days that production flowed smoothly, each engineer was still working on trying to continuously improve their processes but the days seemed less stressful for my boss because there were no urgent deadlines or problems going wrong in the plant. Overall, on those day...

I feel like being opportunistic is in my nature and growing up as a son of two immigrants I was taught from an early age that America is the land of opportunity. My parents have told me that “the wheel that squeaks the loudest gets the oil.” I take this to mean that if you want something that you have to be proactive about it and take advantage of every opportunity that is at hand. I was never really taught to let a good opportunity slide by. I do however know one of my friends who passed up on a very high paying job offer that I would never be able to do. One of my old friends in Chemical Engineering passed on an offer from ExxonMobil which is the company that almost every Chemical Engineering major tries to work for. That is because most of ExxonMobil’s locations are in big cities and pay their chemical engineers the highest starting salary. When my friend got this offer he had no other offers at the time and yet he still declined the offer. Many of us were shocked ...