What on earth was I thinking by taking statistics online?!?!?

Could someone explain how to find the quartiles?  Or why whiskers on a boxplot uses 1.5 IQR's?  Or standard deviations?

I'm going to be busy going crazy for now.

Hey, only 12 weeks left.

I can't believe I didn't come blog this!  It just goes to show how tired/busy I have been lately.

I got my letter from the Nursing program, saying I have been accepted to the BSN program for Fall 2006.  Woohoo!

*giggles*

I get to be a nurse!

The 13th (Friday) was the date that the nursing department would have acceptance/rejection/wait listed letters out by.  I was prepared to be a nerveous wreck until Wednesday when I was going to start stalking our mailman.

Well, turns out a friend of mine got hers yesterday!

HMPH.

I'm guessing they must have gotten them in the mail early, and due to the nature of things I just haven't gotten anything yet (and nothing is better than a rejection letter)

Doesn't the USPS know that they shouldn't do this to us?!?  It's just cruel to give a letter to one applicant and not another when they are good friends!  {in my best whiny 5 yo voice} IT'S NOT FAIR!!!!

Guess what else?

Tomorrow is (of course) Martin Luther King Day so the mail isn't being delivered.  HMPH

So, I got my schedule for the next 2 weeks.  I only open once and several mid-shifts with way too many of them going until 5.  Until 5 puts all 3 kids in daycare for a long time, and isn't worth it to me money wise.  I'm going to have to closely track how much of our daycare bill is because of Hogi Yogi and how much of it is for other things and compare it to what I bring home.

I'm back to I don't know if I should quit or not, but I think I'm going to work all of January and then reassess things in February.  I'm not the type to give something up the minute it starts to become not convient, but at the same time I don't want to try to make something work that is affecting my family negatively or isn't going to get better.

I also don't know if I should take the evening statistics class or try to drudge through online.  Taking it in the evening would either up our daycare bill (again!) or really mess with Paul's sleeping schedule.  I do have serious doubts about 'getting' math from a text book though.  *sigh*

I do have a couple of people who feel very comfortable with stats who said that they would help me, so maybe I'll be ok.  Maybe.

School doesn't even start for a few more weeks and it's causing me stress.  At least I know the stress will leave once I figure out a schedule.

It's days like this that I wish I could say "Mom and Dad, I'm not sure what the right answer in this situation is, can you help me out?"

Paul left work at 2 AM this morning, drove past the school to see if anyone was in line yet.  They weren't so I hit the snooze button a few times then got into the shower and then went down. 

I left the house at about a quarter to four, ran past Maverick for some donuts and there was a line when I got to the school.  Colleen and 2 girls I didn't know.

Vikki was nice enough to show up about 5:30 and let us in.  I am #2 on the list!!!!  WooHooo!!!!

Unfortunately, I just got an email from Vikki saying she is concerned about the lack of UNIV 1000 but when I called her back and told her that Deb (the science dept counselor) had waived it for me she said that it would be ok.

I'm still nerveous about that 'ok'

The nursing department has been known to tell people something is ok before and then not follow through, so I'm not completely confident.

But, I did it!  I'm going to be a nurse, really and truely be a nurse.  WOOOOOO