I apologize that I've been absent so long. These statistics courses are absolutely killing me. I am really struggling to pass them. It's completely exhausting me and I have had no free time to eat never mind do anything else.

I just finished my first half of winter term which was a regular leadership course plus statistics 1. Statistics 1 fried my brain. I was working on it all day every day and even then I was petrified I was having problem. I did make it through those two. Then I only got a day break before the second statistics course began last week. It uses a completely new book so everything is different again. I was in an absolute panic.

I will try my best to work some forum time in with this class - I think things will improve once statistics is over. This pair of classes in particular has just killed my brain, it is so challenging for me.

What is it that they say about statistics???!!!

I know at WPI that everyone called the "sadistics" and indeed these things are really rough. I am right now stalling in these forums because I have to read a chapter in statistics and I feel so exhausted. But I have to go do it. I have not been able to think or breathe for over a solid month now. I really hope once the statistics class is over that my life will give me some more free time again. Right now I don't have time to do anything but classwork and critical to-do tasks and it is killing me. I've lost my weekends, my evenings, everything.

I am glad that this will probably be your only crazy hard course. When it ends you will have a life again.

Is there any way to incorporate studying with relaxing somehow? Take a bath while reviewing your notes and index cards (yes, i make myself index cards when i study). Or do yoga stretching poses with your text book open in front of you?

I haven't had time for a hot bath in weeks and I've been craving one. I haven't even had time for my 3 minute quick-stretch any more. I barely get time to eat while I work. I think a lot of the stress is the statistics classes. They are just SO hard.

I am requiring myself to come into these forums because they are the one real "non work" activity I do and I think that is good for my brain. I think I need to force myself to have even a tiny bit of balance. But it feels selfish to be in here because I have so much work to do.

I KIND of thought I might have wanted to take a statistics class, but hearing you speak of it, maybe I'm glad I didn't. What are the math prerequisites? Others?