10-01-2014, 03:32 PM
(10-01-2014, 01:27 PM)Publius link Wrote:I saw first hand a consensus first team All-American take the hardest class in undergraduate economics while he was preparing for the draft combine. This class is only required for honors track. He's either smarter than me or has a better work ethic, because if I was a lock to get drafted in the first round for the NFL I would stay faaaar away from econometrics.
I've never been a lock for the NFL draft, but I've still stayed as far away from econometrics as is humanly possible.
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