My mind is melting away...

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Analyze and predict current and future population trends in various places using census and other housing data as well as school enrollments.

For example, if you look at the enrollment trends of the St. Francis school district, an exurb of the Twin Cities, you might have predicted the housing bubble popping well before it did.

After years of enrollment growth as the community exploded with new growth, in about 2004, enrollment in each grade began shrinking from year to year.. indicating that students were moving out of hte district.  This was especially apparent in younger grades, indicating it was younger families moving out (mortgage problems).  Then in the past few years, Kindergarten enrollments began to plummet despite births generally increasing from 2000-2007/8... a major indication that the city had suddenly stopped seeing new young families moving in.

At the same time, the exact opposite began occurring in the 1st ring suburb of Richfield, built up largely during the 40s and 50s.  It peaked at 47,000 people at the 1970 census and lost 20% of its population during the 70s as thousands of children graduated high school in the massive baby boom wave and moved out, leaving behind a city of empty nesters.  Population shrank moderately until the latter half of the past decade.  Suddenly the grades began growing from year to year, indicating families were moving into Richfield.  Again, this was most apparent in the younger grades, indicating young families were driving the growth.

Most importantly, the number of births in the city exploded from about 375 to 650 from 2000-2006.  In the past few years, kindergarten enrollment has soared and the district is out of room in its elementary schools.  This is a school district that was graduating 1200 student per year in the early 70s.. with incoming kindergarten classes at around 280 students by 1980.  It's another boom for them.

Maybe you could do a study on this type of thing in your area.

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stop smoking weed

Probably not a bad idea. I used to be just as productive when smoking, but now it's just making me lazier than I already was. It's mostly just a matter of will power, of which I am running out. Actually, as this stream of thought is occurring, I'm thinking maybe the focus of my energy is the problem. Clearly I need to invest even less of my daily energy in work and focus on things that matter. If a research project doesn't work then I guess I'll be forced to consider cutting down on the plants...

You've been to Amsterdam, right? The Northern Europeans always offer prudent advice (although I don't quite understand why they're eight points in Dutch and six points in English):

Well, number 7 is probably readable by a native English speaker with good linguistic skills

"Buy no cannabis on the street.  Instead, seek a bonafide coffeeshop out."

Though I'm a little confused on number 8.  Perhaps someone fluent in the Dutchspeak can help me out:

The jist of it seems to be "Never take cannabis into the _____land."  It translates on the translator as "Booty land"... whatever the f[inks] that is.