so today i had biostats class. i hate class. i’m 28 29 years old. i’m a few months away from my PhD. i’ve taken every class there is to take. please quit making me take this non-sense. while i’m on this topic, how do they expect me to be able to produce publishable statistically sound data in the lab if i cant do—effing stats!

so yeah…i had biostats class and after lecture our professor told us to clear our desks for a quiz. apparently i should have known about this quiz, but i have a little problem staying for the duration of these aforementioned classes. (i’m the guy who leaves during the break.)

so he hands out the quiz and i ask him for a standard distribution table (z-value table). he tells me that he informed the class to bring both a calculator and a table and that if we didnt bring these w/ us that we had to do without.

um. ok. so a standard distrib table is one of the most basic things used in stats. so i got all pissed off and thought about just leaving and then i remembered that my old chem teacher used to make us show the stats for our data complete w/ derivations for the formulas (back in my day excel didnt do these kind of things for ya). so i sat there for like half an hour deriving the z-score formula and started making my own effing table w/ typical values.

so i finished my quiz and take it up to him complete w/ the derivation and he just stared at the quiz and then looked up at me like WTF?

word.

this is my big story from today and in retrospect, i sit and wonder why it is that i can remember stupid stuff like this and still have to stop and think about how to spell ‘chose‘ or ‘choose‘.
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