[stressgal]

I'm not crazy about math but will be starting Stats September 23. Count me in!

[HeartsOpenWide]

Can we trade brains?

Originally Posted by Mike1957

Summer 1 2004 - A&P 1 while working full time as an engineer
Fall 2004 - A&P 2 with the same job
Spring 2005 - Microbiology...new job..commuting from Dallas to Houston as an engineering manager. Down there on Sunday, drive back for Tues. nite class. Work out of the house Wed & Thur. Fly to (7:00 AM Flight) Houston and back (9:00 PM flight) on Friday.
Summer 1 & 2 - Engl. 1301 online...bridges both sessions
Summer 2 - Intro Psych.

Grade points average? 4.0 with a perfect score in the English class. OK...so I got lucky on that one.
I got laid off at the end of June so I figured that going to school Mon - Thur nites...one class per nite with an online algebra class wouldn't hurt me any.

We'll see if I still have a 4.0 come December.

[Fun2Care]

Originally Posted by HeartsOpenWide

Can we trade brains?

Half of his brain would make me a genius. LOL

Keep up the good work, Mike!

[Mike1957]

Originally Posted by Fun2Care

Half of his brain would make me a genius. LOL

Keep up the good work, Mike!

Hey..I'm here to help you guys too. I've had the same two lab partners through most of these classes. I'm about to help one of them through algebra and the other through stats.
Don't hesitate to ask.
Mike

[Fun2Care]

Originally Posted by Mike1957

Hey..I'm here to help you guys too. I've had the same two lab partners through most of these classes. I'm about to help one of them through algebra and the other through stats.
Don't hesitate to ask.
Mike

Thanks Mike! It must be nice to have a good, long term, study buddy. I hope that it works out that way for me throughout the nursing program.

[Paula7]

I HATE math!!! I have taken calc and stats for my Marketing degree and I just hope that they'll take those as transfers and I won't have to take anymore math!! We'll see though. I'm just horrible at it!

[gauge14iv]

If it helps...

I grew up a math idiot - always had to take math for dummys all the way through high schoo, never made it through a college algebra course (4 attempts) and was dreading chem and math 15 years ago...

I made a B in chem and A in stats!

Stats rocked my world!

P.S Hi Mikey! Have you told em what your score on the NET you took today was???? (I'm sorta proud of my big brother!)

[txspadequeen921]

Can be president of the "I hate math club". I just started algebra all over again. LUCKY ME!!!!

[HeartsOpenWide]

Ok, yesterday was my first stats class and I am shaking in my boots!!! My teacher told us (and repeated about five times) "This class is very demanding! Take your book with you and look at in, it is easy to forget some of the stuff as we go on. If you are playing pool on a friday night, bring your book with you and look at it from time to time. Chapters 1-5 are hard, and then the ones after that are harder and then it gets even harder. Some of my students that have taken calc have said that this class is harder..."

Do you think he is trying to scare us? I heard once that people that hate math like algebra and like english usually like stats but people that are more "mathy" hate stats the most. Have you hear this?

[ENP-wanna-be]

Hey everyone!

I know exactly how you all feel and I can tell you from experience, my A in stats was the hardest A I've ever worked for in my life!!! Fortunately, I had an amazing professor, with a PhD in epidemiology! What helped me most was my study group. We would get together a couple days before a test and bring review questions that we were having trouble with. With 5 people in our group, one of us was bound to understand the hard ones. Anyway, DONT TAKE YOUR MATH COURSES LIGHTLY!!! I just started nursing school and was surprised at all of the basic math on the NET test. After taking stats and chemistry, I thought it would be much more difficult than it was. It had been a while since I had had fractions, decimals, percentages, and long division (by hand, no calculator!!!) Go buy a drug calculations (Brown and Mulholland)workbook and do the General Math chapter as review! You'll do great.

One more thing, I'll be taking the dosage and solutions test, mentioned earlier, next semester and have to make 100% on it!!! No pressure, right?! If we can't make a perfect score by the third try, we can't administer medication and, therefore, can't attend clinicals, therefore, FAIL the course!!! As you can see, math stinks, but we all have to know it and will probably be using it for the rest of our careers! By the way, I'm not too shabby at math so if you have any questions, I'll do my best to help you figure it out! Good luck to all of you and keep your spirits up! Your most treasured possession in school will become your sense of humor!

Blessings,
ENP-wanna-be
UT-Houston BSN-RN, May 2007!!!!!