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With a win, it is all good...its amazing what subs can do for a team.
2-0
WAHOO!!!
Pirates will play next Thursday (2/1) @ 7:30pm.
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With a win, it is all good...its amazing what subs can do for a team.
2-0
WAHOO!!!
Pirates will play next Thursday (2/1) @ 7:30pm.
I am not sure why I would want to start anything off in that way, but it seems to fit.
In the interest of full disclosure, I am alive, and if by alive, it means that I somehow make it to campus and classes each day, do the homework and what not...then yes I am alive.
I have fully recovered as best I can from last semesters 17 credit hour load and have found myself knee deep into this semester. What does that mean for me, well not much, just a lot of homework, I think. I have tuned my schedule as best I could to maximize my time this semester.
My original plans for the semester was to take 12 hours of classes, nine related to my field of study and three of general eds. It was a great plan until I sat over the break and realized that I could possibly graduate in December if I were to add 3 more hours this semester, but it was not any three hours it had to be the right three hours.
So upon arriving back from Georgia at the beginning of the month, I sat down and listed everything I had to take and everything I could take to fulfill the requirements for graduation. It was a good list. I looked at the online course listings and came up with a couple of viable solutions to graduation and then I scheduled a meeting with Dr. Scott [the stat department chair and my current boss]. The meeting went well as it was mostly work related and then I asked him about classes I should take.
I need to list out the classes in order for this to make sense. I am seeking a degree in statistical science which in and off itself meant a lot of theory/application classes in stats versus the other degrees where you end up with a minor in some other field. I stayed in statistics since changing majors.
So required classes I had left to take were Statistical Theory part 1 [STAT441], Statistical Theory part 2 [STAT442], and Experimental Design [STAT431]. Then I had a set of choices were open to me for the remaining 5 classes I could take. So the big dilemma in choosing focused on what could help me for a possible grad school route as well as obtaining a job after graduation. Knowing that I still had at least 2 more statistics courses to take, I simply selected the two most interesting topics to me Statistical Computing 2 [STAT424] and Applied Time Series Forecasting [STAT469] which meant I had to come up with a plan for the other classes. I looked at the list, and couldn’t see 3 classes I wanted to take/could take in order to accomplish a very real goal of a December graduation.
I did see a possibility of classes, but my interest laid in the more Math oriented classes, so not really a good thing for my aspirations. So I looked at the classes and came up with 3 possible classes: Intro to Reliability [STAT466], Quality Control and Industrial Statistics[STAT462], and Stochastic Processes [STAT545]. But to my dis-heartening the Stochastic Processes class was only to be taught in the spring this year and then go to a winter semester class starting next academic year. I spent some time and concluded to that STAT466 for the simple fact I was interested in the concepts the syllabus stated it would cover, the only problem was a pre-req that I was going to be concurrently enrolled in. After some discussion with the teacher and other students I felt I would be able to perform in the class. So I signed up.
Now this leaves some interesting things. Mainly I have a desire to have an internship of some sort this summer [May1 to Aug 14th] and I have begun feeling that out. But for my last undergraduate semester it is already planned out. Sort of.
Baring some mishap of a bad nature, I plan to be taking STAT442, STAT469, STAT424, MATH350, and my last GE Physical Science 100.
It wasn’t until I realized how close I was that I got excited about it. I am two semesters away from being done with an undergraduate degree…