My first assignment as a Ph.D. student was to do some simulations in SAS for a couple of profs who were testing the Parkinson estimator versus a couple of alternate ones they'd devised. It wasn't my cup of tea, but it did get me up and running in SAS. So, I wrote it off as something I'd never see again, and I ended up working in empirical Corporate Finance.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.