living the statistical life

Gears: Transmission 03 - W.I.P.
Originally uploaded by UsokChoe.

This semester I am taking the graduate statistics course. To put it mildly it is hell. I had taken a stats course as an undergrad and calculus in high school. But after that math has been an afterthought when reading scientific journals. Sort of like the use it or lose it theory, I think I lost it. We had a midterm yesterday, in a format I hadn't taken since chemistry as a freshman in undergrad, but luckily I had spent the past week and half studying Scheffe and Tukey. I might have actually passed the exam which means I only have half a semester left. That also means I am now a week and a half behind in the other classes. Thankfully, there is no home football game but we do have two swim meets, Friday and Saturday. Believe it or not two swim meets is much better than one home football games. Swimming is much more civil, carefully planned, and in the end there is much less chaos. That is coming from a planning and athletic training perspective. For most of the state on the other hand I will refer to Billy Welch's rendition of "In Heaven There is No Beer."