math girls rock

Well, just when I didn't think I was really "getting" my quant/economictrics/stats/empirical methods- whatever it's called, I had an amazing session with the ubermath goddess, JulieCooper. She's the mother of one of Liam's classmates and also happens to be brilliant mathematician. More than that, she knows how to explain the stuff. I've been suffering through a whole semester with a prof that most everyone else adores, and I just couldn't get what the overarching point of his teaching was. Then, enter Julie. She devoted an entire morning to me to help me with regression basics. Meanwhile, as her son Didi and Kalian were wandering in and out of the kitchen, she broke it down for me, so I finally feel like I get the concepts - ok, so this isn't statistically significant to say this - but chicks rule at math!

Ok, let's hope I can keep up this confidence for my exam tomorrow. I wish it weren't at 2pm. I've been studying all week. The two folks in my study group as of yesterday hadn't cracked a book. Am I slow? anal? nervous? I just really want to do well b/c this is one class I know I can get credit for at Berkeley. We blew that stupid hookworm assignment, too - ok, this is inflated grade "blew" - we only got a Bplus...OK, back to a positive attitude!