Holiday
weekends and short weeks make for happy interns. As last weekend was Labor
day weekend, I had the opportunity to explore the museums more extensively. Saturday
consisted primarily of touring the Capitol, which was slightly disappointing,
as they don’t let one see very much due to the construction. We simply saw the
Crypt (lots of statues) and the old Supreme Court room. In addition, Sunday
consisted of the below-par Museum of the American Indian, which was really
weird: for the most part, it didn’t tell the history of the Indian tribes, but
instead focused on their cultural idiosyncrasies without explaining them.
Nevertheless, Labor Day meant the air half of the Air and Space museum. By far
the best museum to which I’ve been thus far, it takes one through the history
of air travel, from the Wright brothers through the World Wars to the age of
commercial air, with some of air travel’s most important pieces, such as the
Spirit of St. Louis. Monday evening we attended a kabob-eque, which started as
a casual evening for a few TWC interns and finished with an interesting and
intense economic debate among three of us.
Short weeks are the best weeks for an
intern. The week at my internship primarily consisted of doing research on
Chile’s pseudo-privatized social security system (I even emailed a company in
Chile in Spanish to try to get the empirical numbers from a study they did).
Cato also had a conference on the Magna Carta and the history of law and
democracy since then. It was a fairly interesting conference, considering I sat
outside and did registration. Nevertheless, I got lunch out of working it,
which was convenient considering I had forgotten my lunch that day. After a
cold front moved through Wednesday, it was finally cool enough to walk to and
from my internship without the walk being miserably hot. Fall in DC looks to be
very exciting (experiencing
fall in a place that actually has trees has the potential to be very cool). The evenings thus far have consisted
mostly of economic debates with my roommates (monetary theory, consumer
rationality, Pigovian taxes, etc.), as well as enjoying the comedy stylings of
The Big Bang Theory and Friends. The entire room sits around to watch Friends
almost every evening, proving one thing: regardless of whether one is in
Belgium, India, New York, or Texas, Chandler is hilarious.
Story
of the Week: Sunday, we went to Moe’s for dinner. As Dee had never had a Moe’s
style burrito, it set up to be a very interesting meal. Knowing the first bite
would generate quite a reaction, we videoed his response:
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