Fast forward to today. Many years have passed, and I am perched on the brink of my second semester of post-graduate mathematical modeling class. Yuck. If I had known that I would be forced to learn Linear Regression and Matrix Algebra and how to deal with heteroskedasticity (I'm not sure what that means either), I may have chosen History as my major! (Probably not, but I would have been better prepared to deal with calculus and statistics). I realize that this is a tool useful in the study of Political Science for some people, but perhaps not me...
So here I am at my kitchen table after dinner pouring over math books preparing for tomorrow's class on differential calculus, which somehow brings to mind a shadow from junior high. Then I was at my kitchen table after dinner pouring over math books learning Algebra.
You'd think that after more than a decade I would finally be allowed to go watch TV after dinner instead, but then you'd be wrong.
3 comments:
Maybe any major with "science" in the title ends up having to do advanced math anyway. If so, I'm in trouble too. Seriously, I would never have thought you would have to take classes like that. Bleh.
ooo yeah anytime you do quantitative research you have to do math/stats. I learned regrssion analysis once and promptly forgot it all when I finished my thesis. Enjoy!
hetero-what? I don't even know how to pronounce that word!
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