Although I am such a loser in Mathematics, I always find it interesting even if many problems seem too difficult for me. In my entire college life, I’ve gone through five Mathematics courses: Math 1 (Fundamentals of Mathematics), Math 11 (College Algebra), Math 14 (Plane Trigonometry) and Math 100 (Introduction to Calculus) and, now, Political Science 199 (Quantitative Research in Political Science). I enjoyed them amid the headache brought about by solving. Except PolSci 199. As a spontaneous individual, subscribing to a stiff, patterned process (like those of Statistics) make me crazy.
I would just like to clear that I didn’t enjoy PolSci 199 only because of the nature of the subject. Other factors do not affect my feeling towards it.
Last Thursday, I retrieved a take home exam in PolSci 199, which I commonly refer to as PolSci Stat. We were asked to draft a research proposal regarding the perception of UP students to the Arroyo administration. Here, we are just required to explain the employment of statistical methods in research, and how do we intend to approach the topic qualitatively. Due to the lack of skill and my subjective feeling towards Statistics, there’s no chance to ace this exam unless I’ll seek help.
That same night, I messaged my girl to help me out. Yes, she’s brilliant in Math. At exactly ten in the evening, we stayed in Coffee Bean. It was a teacher-and-student type of relation, for I look like a student conducting a consulation with my professor. Due to the patience of the “professor”, understanding the concepts was a bit easy for me.
On that very same night, I find myself understanding not only Statistics.
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