Statistics has never been my friend. I love math, especially calculus, but I believe that statistics is not math. I can do simple stuff like ANOVA or something like that. But, as a PhD student, I need to take three or more statistics courses. Well, I finished two basic PhD level statistics classes in the past semesters. So, this semester, I decided to take another (and last) one, applied multivariate statistical analysis class. Well, huge huuuuuge mistake! The professor for the course was really really slow giving us back assignments. We turned in three assignments, and we only got back one. And, tonight was the last class… So, I have no idea how I did on those assignments. Also, we had to come up our own data sets to do homework. It was super painful I had to find data set to do homework. I used several data I have collected, but they had lots of problems such as noise in data etc. And, none of my data were normal distributed (this is big no-no for using some of multivariate analysis). And, as a final project, we had to analyze data using three different statistical techniques, write up like you do for publishing paper, and present result like you do at the professional conference. Of course, I was freaking out because I had no good data, I hate writing, and I hate giving presentation! I worked actually really hard processing data I have, so I could analyze. However, the result wasn’t so favorable… Also, since today was the last day of the class, I had to give a presentation of my result. I worked pretty hard to make powerpoint, but I had no time to practice. So, of course, my presentation was horrible, and I don’t think no one understood my point. Well, most of students were from fucking business school, so I wasn’t expected them to understand anyway! But, thing pissed me off the most was that business school people used same data sets and did kinda same analysis! And, most of biz school people even didn’t use powerpoint to give their presentations! They just opened up their Word file, and scrolled down the results! It really really pissed me off. I mean you wouldn’t present your result just showing your paper at the conference!!

I am so looking forward this semester to be over…