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I am the only one of my group working today. Funny thing is that there are supposed to be no less than 7 more working. Maybe I missed the Memo?
It's Friday!!!!
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T-40 minutes until the first of our halfday summer Fridays begins...
T-75 minutes until I start my stats final...ugh
T-75 minutes until I start my stats final...ugh
snickerd3
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yeah and boo!!!!
snickerd3
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i actually really like not working on wednesdays it makes the week feel much shorter. This wed I was home with a major sinus problem. THe wednesday before I took a short day to run errands since I had nothing to do.
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I will be thrilled to get this class over with. Not only is it simple for someone with a technical background, but I haven't had a break from class since Labor Day of last year. The 7 weeks of downtime will be nice.
I never had a formal stats class before, just as it was applied to engineering classes. It's been useful to get the fundamentals explained as opposed to just nodding my head and making Excel do it.
snickerd3
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I hated my formal stats class...but that probably had more to do with the prof and TA. THe prof, shirt unbuttoned hairy chest bling wearing real italian guido, related all examples to viagra the TA everythign was to baseball.
but since it was a 4 cred class I only had to take 1 class instead of 2 to get the required # of tech elective hrs i suffered through it.
but since it was a 4 cred class I only had to take 1 class instead of 2 to get the required # of tech elective hrs i suffered through it.
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I liked my stats class. It wasn't that easy, but everyone else was so overwhelmingly stupid, I had ridiculous grades after every exam, etc. was curved. At one point, she actually said something during class just to see if anyone was paying attention (a handful of us were, most were talking about their partying from last night). As a result, I ended up with 10 extra points on the final of my exam just for bringing in a picture of a guinea pig wearing a hat (true story).
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Sounds like a real 'stiff' grader to me.
I'm just happy this isn't a touchy feely course like most of the MBA stuff I've taken to far. I don't have to write a 10 page paper about why the standard deviation makes me sad.
I'm not a big fan of online courses, but I took this guy for an elective over winter term. I was traveling for Xmas and couldn't attend all the in-person classes. He did a great job of that, so I took him for this one too. I'm happy with the class, but I wouldn't take a qualitative class online because I think I'd miss too much of the discusion back and forth.
I got 100 on the midterm, so I have a little wiggle room on the final.
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snickerd3
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heck when i took gen eds over the summer at the local community college, the tests were fill in the blank from a word bank at the top and if you could define the rest of the words not used it was a point xtra credit for each. I was scoring 110 on those things...geeze and this was supposed to be COLLEGE!!!!!!!!!!1
Master slacker
Something awesome.
Spent most of the day in the attic laying down 2x4's for a storage floor / walking area. Finally down, took a shower, and now cold beer in hand. 
Some Friday. Came out to a smashed window, wrecked door, and a GPS and probably some other stuff stolen out of my car. Just what I needed to cap off an already stellar week. Boy, between my grandmothers death, HVAC crapping out, wrecked roof, battles with work management, and now my car getting broken into, I'm really on a roll.
Brown nosing? Nope, just extra credit from a teacher who hated 99% of the students she taught.
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That sucks, man. Hope your weekend is better.
Ble_PE
I need a beer.
That sucks, Supe. Hopefully your weekend will be better.
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The only way to get to the top is by kissing a lot of the bottom.
Plus there are people in the class with non-technical backgrounds, so it's a fairly mild class theory/derivation wise. It also helped that my wife took stats as one of the subjects on her PhD quals (in other words qualified to teach the class) when I got the occasional curveball.
If she ever needs to know if the 100 year storm will flood the lab, I owe her one.
