It's Out of My Hands!

Today is a day of great rejoicing! I got home two hours ago from taking the dreaded final exam for my Stats class. As I studied for the test, I went over a "practice exam" that had me SOOOO worried that I might fail the entire course by failing the final. BUT the real thing was not nearly as difficult--bless their hearts.

I have about 89% going for me; the final is worth nearly 30% of my grade. But Jeff did some computations for me and figured that even if I scored 50% on the final, I could not do worse than a B- for the end grade. I would not, under normal circumstances, be pleased with myself for earning a B-, but in this case, with my current GPA and the number of credits I could average that B- with, it won't bother me at all. Of course, I'll post when the scored show up online, but for now, it is enough to know that I don't need to try any longer to keep all those letters straight: the letter "p" for instance, can stand for proportion, population, parameter, and with other small marks used with it, can mean p-hat, or p-tilda, or p-bar. You get the picture. Lots of way I might be able to "mess up."

So---I will go clean bathrooms and make rice krispie treats and get ready for my company to come in a couple more hours. Yippee for fighting the good fight and finishing the course!