Have You Ever...

had the feeling that knowledge just aggregates in the brain and all you have to do to utilize it is awaken it with a little prodding? I took my Stats final two nights ago... I don't know about the rest of you, but I have pretty much forgotten all my graduate level stats except for p-values and ANOVA's which really don't matter much unless you know how to interprete them and use them in a sentence, er... equation. And where am I going with this drivel?

After attending the INSC 60013 intro class, I somehow skipped every class until the mid-term, which I took and have no idea how I did but suspect it was miserable, then conducted some psychological self-flagellation for my sloth. Convinced that I would now walk the straight and narrow path to Statistical and Graduate excellence, I awaited the second half of the summer session with renewed expectation. Evening classes came and went and there I sat on my couch, in my bed, out in the park, any place but Smith Hall. And finally, a mere two classes before the final, I pin-pointed my lack of drive... I had normal people depression. Mmmm - weird.

But how was I to rectify this class thing? Too late too drop, too ashamed to attend class, too proud to confess. A brief communique to the prof assured me that no harm done, just finish the requirements. The day, Yes, the DAY of the final, I started to study. 18 Chapters of finance statistics to absorb in 6 hours.

And guess what? I feel quite certain I did.