The eagerly anticipated Berkeley econ skit party took place last night (April 6th) in the Lipman Room at the top of Barrows Hall. Highlights included Prasad's hilarious impersonations of the faculty, a raucous new auction segment with heated bidding wars for various goods and services, and two new music videos from The Metrics Gang that I helped out with (the above posts link to them).
I also very much enjoyed being sneakily tricked into participating in the second-year skit of Faculty Quote Jeopardy by Juan Carlos and Charlie. It was a very funny skit, but it was also an especially funny inside joke that my friends had plotted all along to include me, not tell me as much, and then ask just as they were setting things up that they needed a third year to help them out with the skit. Oh, it was also fun to win (though in fairness, the game was rigged in my favor).
The finest moment of the proceedings was when George Akerlof--one of the winners of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics--won the teaching award voted by graduate students and said in his humble, sincere George way as he accepted that it was the best award he had ever received. How classy is that? :-)
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