"On completion of this unit, students will understand the key steps of the scientific method and how these are applied to real problems that involve data analysis and interpretation, and will gain an appreciation of how statistical data is collected, analysed and stored, and the importance of statistical techniques in the analysis of data. Students will be able to use Excel to present and interpret data graphically, determine confidence intervals, calculate normal probabilities, carry out regression and interpret results, conduct hypothesis testing and interpret results, and to communicate findings through a scientific report. The unit is designed for students without a strong mathematics background."

You really didn't have to read the whole paragraph, my point has been bolded. :)

That, was the description for my statistics unit : SCI1020
The one subject I dreaded most throughout this whole semester. I regretted massively when I had placed this 'workshop' class to 9am on every Tuesdays. That specific class just makes me feel extremely dumb. Dumb to a point where I would rather sit at home and cry myself to sleep. That, was just an exaggeration, but I am going to say this one subject got me really hay-wired.

The lecturer doesn't seem like she knows what exactly she was teaching, my replacement workshop lecturer gave me that 'you are in college and you MUST bring your heavy textbook whenever you have lecture' pep-talk. Despite me feeling extremely dumb in every workshop, I would still bug the crap out of the lecturer. I hate that I feel dumb, but the bugging paid off. At least I learned something out of the extreme buggings. I PAID FOR THIS.

So, apparently this was the easiest math unit around. Of course I was going to take it after that nightmare-ish experience I had with Maths 3CD back in AusMat. It scarred me well. Despite that, I still had not clue what was going on. All statistical words, only confused me even more.

Dear Math,

Has anyone told you that you work so much better when there were only numbers and brackets? Even with all those weird squiggly strokes around (plus, minus, multiply, divide, square root, you name it, SYMBOLS) you were still workable. But why oh why must you have words in you? Why must you make our lives so much more difficult? I have never felt so much dumber since alphabets and words started appearing in you. :(
Fact that I am a Chinese, I am SUPPOSEDLY good at maths. But hey, I just could never ACE math. I could never... Why do you have to make me look so much more dumb than I already am? :(

I do not have an ending to this little ridiculous note to 'Math'.

Let's just hope this is the last time I have to deal with maths. I am hoping it really is the last time I h... oh wait. Chemistry.

I, have nowhere else to run.

But I will pass this stats unit. I WILL!