Friday, September 12, 2014

Clueless about Stats

As I had posted earlier this week, I went for a Stats workshop today which was meant to prepare us for Stats 2 lecturers later this year. Although I had already missed quite a few sessions of this workshop, I was attending today's session mainly for two reasons. Firstly, I have heard quite alot on how Stats 2 was of "out of this world" level of difficulty and that I would not understand what was being taught anyways so there was no point in attending the workshops. Thus, having done Statistics in JC, I just wanted to have a glimpse of how difficult Stats 2 really was and if there were going to be lots of new content being taught so I could prepare myself for them. Secondly, I was also hoping that since Uni lectures were known for going much more in depth than what we learnt in JC, I might gain some new perspectives which may help me understand what I'm learning.
Unfortunately, as I was sitting in the lecture theatre an hour after the lecturer started speaking, I was trying really hard to make sense of what he was saying, while the other half of my mind was already dozing off. My mind barely jolted awake at some familiar words like "Binomial" and "Poisson" but was otherwise unable to make sense of much else.
When break came one an half hours into the lecture, I was so glad to have an opportunity to get out of the LT that I actually thought it was the end of the session. I had no intention of sitting through the next session so I started to pack. I then realised the lecture was not over... Lol! Lucky I had not stood up with my bag over my shoulder yet or I would have looked really stupid.
It was also around this time that two guys behind me started a conversation with me asking how well I was following the lecture so far. I just told them that I could not understand anything at all. They then replied " You are not the only one." Indeed, I could see many clueless faces during the second part of the session and the guy to my right was already dozing off...
By the time the session ended, I came to the conclusion that I needed to put in a lot of effort to prepare for my Statistics lectures before they start November. Moreover, I am sure I would have no problems making new friends in my Stats lectures given that most of us would have something in common. Haha!

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