Stats makes you stupid

Okay, so I've been trying to combat my stats 10(easy) assignment for days now... and I mean days! So many people said "take stats, it's easy". Random phrases like "guaranteed A+", "it's a breeze", "buy one get one free", "10 rupee... good price" flowed like cheap Tui at the commerce ball. However, it was not to be! Okay, so now I'm getting ahead of myself and admittedly overreacting.

But lets just say that this semester, the fights with the calculator, the tears, the yelling, the screaming, the sleepless nights have all lead to one thing: a very real fear of failing. You see, some people just don't understand mathematics. Unfortunately I have fallen into this category and now gain that dreaded knot in my stomach at the mention of 108!

I remember the days when maths was all about making the perfect pie chart, isoceles triangles and hanging out for the morning tea break. Those days are sadly gone, instead being replaced by poisson distributions, t-tests and nonparametric blah blah blah. I miss those easy days, in fact Stats is making me even miss the horrid years of law school (didn't think that one was possible!!!). Cases, lots and lots of cases... pages, wonderful pages of impossibly too tiny to read text from judges with over-inflated egos, thinking they should be bowed to. I miss those days.

But then again, I guess that we always say that you only learn something, where that something has come from a challenge (key learning from my AIESEC days). Stats is definately a challenge, now if only people would stop laughing at me before my self-esteem and confidence digs its way to China!

ps. Long live Geometry!!