Now, I have taken this statistics course. The Math and Stat departments are not fogiving when it comes to homework. They insist - An assignment submission every week. Man, for a 4th year graduate student, this is a bit to much. I like research courses - no homework, no tests. Just read papers, dicuss it in the class and give a final presentation at the end of the semister. Right now, the situation is not like that. I have to get this homework done by 10.10 Am every friday. So I started, on thursday, at 10 PM, as usual, to start the homework. On the side note, one good thing about doing homework is that the students are forced to find out what chapters are covered till now. I usually find that out two times a semister, once before the midterm and once befor the finals. Now its more frequent, thanks to the homework. Anyways, on thursday night I realized that my Prof. has complete 2 chapters in 3 classes and I need to understand every bit of it to finish the 6 problems. The time is 10.00 PM and I have 12 hours to go and I am reading about controlling error rate, the REGWR method, HSD, LSD, Pairwise comparison etc etc. If you are new to statistics, these might look like greek and latin. Well, dont worry, I had the same feeling at 10.00 PM on thursday. I was supposed to know everything a week back. Poor me, I had no idea. Now after a night out, I was able to convert this Greek and Latin to Kannada and Telugu ( These are Indian languages, which I can atleast try to understand). And all this for the second assignment. I have no idea how I will be when I submit the 13th assignment.
Posted by koda0009 at September 24, 2004 10:04 AMprobably you would have dropped the course :)
just kidding :)