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Being that the requirement for an economics major is to take four 400 level economics courses, it was important to me that I chose courses which I felt were going to be both interesting and useful in the future. I liked the way in class discussion and even more so the blog posts forced the students to be able to not only mathematically solve a problem, but also intuitively predict an outcome. Another important aspect for courses this year was flexibility, as I was out of town a lot for job interviews especially the last couple months. Therefore, if I missed class I was able to catch up because the homepage on BlogSpot contained a lot of valuable wrap-ups from class and readings to get a better understanding. In addition, I felt like it was very easy to engage in class because the structure of the class centered on trying to get the students to apply situations to our own experiences. In a lot of classes when I ask peers of mine to highlight the most important material covered...