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With the power of J-pop and my chant, I will calm myself down!

xd

(The J-pop because it makes me feel like dancing.)

The AP Stats exam is this afternoon. You're suppoooosed to go to school in the morning, but I had an essay in AP English Language, that would have drained all the energy out of me for my Stats test. So I got to sleep in a little bit and I'm slowly eating breakfast. I'm waking myself up a bit by listening to music and dancing around (until the guys who are working on our bathrooms get here xd ). Once I'm fully calmed down and feeling okay, I'm going to look over things once more and then probably play Brawl until 10:35 or so when I'll walk to school. We have to be in our seats by 11:45, but Mr. Brown is going to do a quick little review before the test and he's buying us bagels.

Let's see...I need to go over the power of a test...but after the problem we did yesterday, I think I remember it somewhat clearly...I've got a really good handle on hypothesis testing and confidence intervals...I should probably look over proportions in confidence intervals and hypothesis testing...hee, hee...when your p is small, reject the Ho. xd ...What else...I'm not very confident about transformations. All I really do is hit buttons on the calculator and stuff...but I do feel pretty strong on linear relationships...just transforming them into exponential or logarithmic or whatever the hell else there is, is hard and kind of confusing.

I think I can design experiments okay...explaining what something means might be a little hard, but I can do my best...I should go over types of bias...

And I should NOT second guess my answers. I always get things wrong when I go, "Oh, well...maybe it's this...hm...yeah. *changes answer*"

*beats self* NO MORE SECOND GUESSING!!!!

And I've decided if I ever get frustrated, I'll just write down my chant all over the test packet and write song lyrics until I'm calmed down. Time usually isn't an issue for me until I get frustrated. So keeping myself from becoming frustrated will be the game plan. I don't HAVE to pass this test. It would be nice, but I'm not pursuing a career in statistics...all I have to understand is basic statistics. Passing this would show that I'm even more amazing, but even if I don't pass it and colleges see it, I can just say that I decided to do something out of my comfort zone to challenge myself, and even though I didn't pass, I'm glad I tried.

Whoo! Positive thinking!

Oh, and a lady from La Trobe University (the university in Melbourne that I want to go to) called me. surprised It was pretty cool. And surprising. xd

And our bathrooms are gonna be all awesome looking. I guess that's what my parents have been saving up for the past 7 or 8 years. They're installing new showers and toilets and just redoing the bathrooms in general. Even though the tiles have been pulled out from the floor in my parents' bathroom, the bathroom already looks pretty nice. Their shower is super awesome. Alyssa and I are supposed to get a similar one for us. 3nodding whee I just wonder what they're going to do to the bathroom downstairs. It's ridiculously small. But the toilet's not too bad...I dunno. But the shower in my parents' bathroom was horrible. It leaked all over the place, so they've been using ours for the past few months.

YAY WE'RE GONNA GET OUR BATHROOM BACK TO OURSELVES!