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Reply 20
My guess is 42 or 12.
Reply 21
JBacon
My guess is 42 or 12.

:eek3:

I'd rather be a smart 12yo kid. :p:
I know how old Knogle is ^^
Reply 23
Mangekyou Sharingan
I know how old Knogle is ^^

Tell me you don't remember what I look like. :p:
Reply 24
Mangekyou Sharingan
I know how old Knogle is ^^

just tell us@@!!!!
Reply 25
Knogle the celebrity. Haha.
Reply 26
2late
Knogle the celebrity. Haha.

I'm just waiting for my very own fan club now..... <G> :p:
Reply 27
2Late, you know where i can get first year material? so i can mull over it this year?
Reply 28
Unless you get the textbooks then I doubt there are much electronic resources as most of them are only available to LSE students. I can compile a list of them if you *really* want me to :P

For microeconomics (part of EC102) there's a companion web site, check it out: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072483342/student_view0/

Apart from like 2-3 chapters, we covered the whole material in October-December. The textbook itself is like 650 pages, but skipping those 3 chapters saves you some reading :biggrin:

Macroeconomics on the other hand is a 200page textbook but it's written in, what I call it- "bullet point form" - i.e. it's so succinct you have to know pretty much everything from those 200 pages- it's extremely concise. And I'm reading it now >_< ...
Reply 29
Hmmm Dan, you nerd ! (an eye for an eye hehe)
Overview of the A&F first year course :
- Financial accounting (first term) is challenging but interesting ; Management accounting (second term) is tough and, sadly, abysmally boring ; Finance (third term) is very short but seems good and the second year gets much more financial
- Economics B is hard (both micro and macro) but extremely interesting
Maths and stats :
You can choose between three options. Two full very hard modules (one of maths and one of stats, MA100 and ST102), with which my friends with A at A2FM are struggling ; two full very easy modules (not quite sure why you get to pick those, but choosing them pretty much rules out any real finance or microeconomics in subsequent years) ; and two half-modules, which Dan and me chose. MA107 is not difficult if you work regularly, simply because lecturers and teachers are good and the LSE textbook is brilliant (clear, concise explanations, worked examples and loads of exercises to train). It covers partial derivatives, constrained optimisation, elementary theory of the firm, recurrence equations, matrix algebra, first- and second_order differential equations and other stuff.
Stats is nothing like this. The concepts are very hard to grasp, exercises and hand-in problems are hard and here too you need to work very regularly.
If you pick MA107/ST107, you get a fourth module - I recommend ID100 Employment Relations.
Reply 30
Johan u nerd! :biggrin:

Macro's goin pretty well for me. So is micro.. I just love economics! Hate our degree though :P

I recommend IS143 if you like new technology :P
Reply 31
Yeah EC102 is brilliant, although I find the problem sets work us really hard.
wow you guys are up late...
Reply 33
Mangekyou Sharingan
wow you guys are up late...



You call that late!!!
JBacon
You call that late!!!

5.45 in the morning?!!!:eek: :eek: :eek:
Reply 35
Seems like 0139GMT to me?
Reply 36
JBacon
You call that late!!!


James- what were you doin at 5:45? Watchin neighbours with Sophie as per usual? :biggrin:
Reply 37
I have stayed up til 8 am in the morning two nights running. Help me!!!
Reply 38
I find a glass of Bailey's helps...:biggrin:
Reply 39
2late
James- what were you doin at 5:45? Watchin neighbours with Sophie as per usual? :biggrin:

hmm whos sophie, she sounds like an interesting character, Johan you dark horse up that late with a girl "watching Neighbours" :p:
but in general you guys are somewhat enjoyuing the AccFin degree then :smile: