Over the years, I've worked on developing Halloween costumes related to actuarial science. What could be scarier, after all? Nothing as boring as wearing thick glasses, suspenders and a pocket protector and carrying a calculator, of course. To be a true actuarial nerd, you need to be more clever.
For my first such costume, I wore my college sweatshirt (the University of Chicago, woot!) with jeans and sneakers. I carried a backpack filled with statistics books. I also carried assorted tea bags that I handed out to everyone I met. I was a student distributing tea...a student's t-distribution. Har, har, har.
Last year's costume was a lot of work to put together. Take a look, and see if you can guess what I'm supposed to be:
Here's a close-up view:
No idea? Here's a hint: I have a fierce runway walk, despite having died at least three different ways. Give up? I'm a model, who's died multiple ways. In other words...I'm a multiple-decrement model. Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week.
You're probably crippled by laughter right now, so I'll leave my other hilarious actuarial costumes for another year. Happy Halloween!
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