Earlier today, Kelly IM’ed me the following message. It kind of speaks for itself. The thing that is not captured in her message is that Mathematical Statistics I and II, what Kelly calls ST 421 and 422, are profoundly difficult classes. I LOVE this.
Tomorrow I dont have class so im planning on finishing my ST 422 problem sheet, getting at least 2 microec problem sets finished, and hopefully knocking out all or most of my first java project. Then on Saturday I want to review this weeka material and read ahead for all of my classes and finish up whatever java or microec I have left. No sas or ag assignments yet.
SAS was great. My experience in R as well as my ST 305 SAS work really payed off. After that I read my stat notes and microec notes for two hours. Marketing was fun, ST 421 was difficult and I didn’t understand fully but I took great notes and am going to do the hw tomorrow where everything will become more clear. He is a great prof. He set up an optional one hour lab/problem session once a week that I am going to go to. Econ was soooo slow. It is math based and hyperdetailed which is really difficult to go into in late afternoon after.3 straight hours of lectures in other hard classes. However he did rail on the health care system (!!!) and my background in microec and calculus is such that understanding the material is not very difficult and whatever I didn’t pick up I wrote down to review tomorrow when im doing the homework. It was really hard to concentrate though. And I sit in the front.
ST 422 is really fantastic though. Im sitting by 10 people that I know and we all help each other and the material is interesting and important enough that I dont want to fall asleep in class. Also our professor is the most adorable socially awkward nerd imagineable. If he were professing he would be a worker, honestly, that’s how he talks.
FYI I am not saying that workers are socially awkward nerds!! The socially awkward part was separate from the worker part of his sparkling personality!
Exactly! I hope your professor reads obscure, very low audience blogs, so you have to be very careful about what you say.
LOL LOL LOL, Kelly! I’m sitting on a bus waiting for a six hour trip Stgo-Concepción, and a few people looked around wondering what I was HaHa-ing about! I clicked on comments to come in and say SOMEthing, then saw your P.S. Thanks for the clarification, though I would still have enjoyed immensely what you wrote to your dad, had you not bothered. Did he ask for your permission to republish, or is this plagiarism at its best? Ha. I’ll keep the “most adorable imaginable” part of your description :-). By the way, your enthusiasm for your classes and education is infectious. Keep up the good humor, aplomb, pluck, and yes, work!