Ch 27. Pages 392 - 395.

There comes a time in everyone’s life when the sun shines down and bestows a blessing of good fortune. For some, it comes in the form of health, fortune, or fame. For me, it was writing the last blog post of the semester.

My hands sweat as the pressure mounts to write the final conclusion, a summary of all that we have learned. I am nervous that the dew of my fingertips may some how destroy my keyboard, or give me some sort of shock. As if that wasn’t enough, I am nervous I’ll write something stupid that shows that I don’t know what I am talking about. What if something just slips out and I write something that I don’t really mean, like “Romer is an idiot and he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.” Could all my blog posts be re-graded as D’s?

Maybe it’s because I have that summer fever, but I just want to be done. I want to say “the end” and call that a conclusion to it all. I just feel my last section was a little anti-climatic for the last post - a little boring. There’s no exciting Hollywood ending, more of an unfinished story, one that is still to be written (which could include any of us). So here is the summary for the section:

- Romer has a plan for Aplia

- Aplia was another major gamble of Romer

- He took a two-year leave of absence from Stanford.

- As with most things, Romer was also a good business man

- Romer went into a “near-total stealth” as he built his platform and business

- With Aplia, Romer was creating a system to corner this whole textbook/student segment. Giving a nonexclusive license to publishers, more information to students and a more convenient way to teach, Romer would get $30 from every Econ student. His own piece of a $3.9 billion a year business.

While I’ve learned some things I will soon forget, there are many things that I won’t; especially that we study and learn these things to not only better our lives, but for all of those around us. To make the world a better place.