The hidden life of UVA

Danny Oberski

Year: Junior

Age: 22

Major: Economics and psychology

Hometown: Ashland, Virginia

What’s in your backpack? Detroit Tigers baseball hat, Richard Thaler’s The Winner’s Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life, Andrei Shleifer’s Noise Trader Risk, eight-day old copy of The Cav Daily, three notebooks, 2008 day planner with only two entries, empty pack of Orbit Wintermint gum, seven gum wrappers, $3.76 worth of change, four mechanical pencils of which only one works, unopened pack of Pilot G-2 pens, gas receipt, $25 Kroger gift card, bag of breadends from Take it Away, an empty Diet Coke bottle.