In my favorite poem by Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay, he reminds us that like the seasons of nature, life is one season melting into another, and quickly fading away. This is my attempt to document each season in my life and my family.

Statistically Speaking

Filed under: General — Rachel at 11:45 pm on Wednesday, August 27, 2008

If you’ve read my recent posts, you know that I am nine weeks pregnant, horribly sick, and generally miserable. Because this was a planned pregnancy and I knew I would likely be pregnant this fall, I made sure that it was jam packed with obligations and responsibilities.

My fall looks something like this:

  • I am homeschooling Kyra, which takes at least two hours of sitting right with her, but usually more.
  • I volunteer at choices for four hours every Wednesday afternoon.
  • I have a Statistics class for three hours on Wednesday nights, one hour after my shift at Choices ends. My volunteer work and my class is in Oak Ridge, which requires a 45 min drive there and a 45 min drive home.
  • I have a Literature class for three hours on Thursday nights, which also requires an hour and a half of driving.
  • Chris and I are going to be leading the high school Awana class at our church on Sunday nights.
  • Starting next Wednesday, I will have monthly doctor’s appointments in Knoxville.
  • Every other Tuesday night, I have Ladies Bible Study at church.
Along with all of that, I am still supposed to cook, clean, and take care of three children. There is the obvious complication of homework for the two college classes. So as to make things especially exciting, my husband just so happens to work full time and is taking five graduate classes this fall. It shall be a fun fall, indeed.

My first Statistics class was tonight. I was excited to find out that a lady from Fellowship (the church I used to attend) is in my class, so I had a friendly face in a new class for the first time since I started school. The professor is a laid back, thirty-something guy with a Mac and a goatee. He played a Radiohead video before class, and promised class projects that involve M&Ms. So, as far as math classes go, I think this one will be okay.

We covered a lot of definitions and statistical-speak tonight, and this is how I learned to apply it to my everyday life:

When you look at the ratio of the responsibilities that I have signed up for and the number of hours in the day, statistically speaking…I am crazy.

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Comment by Plynseas Fountain

August 31, 2008 @ 2:58 pm

Hi Rachel,
I logged on to see if you had any posted updates on how you are feeling. Hang in there…hopefully the ‘morning sickness/ all-day sickness stuff will disappear soon!

Shoot…I have to take Statistics this semester too……so, 20 years later after my last college calc. course, I’m now in stats to have it prior to Demography. Learn from me…take it from me….get the degree done early so that you have it…don’t procrastinate…(yet we still keep our families and kids a priority on top of studying/ classes/ housestuff???) So, on the day you lack motivation to study, just think “well, I’d rather do stats now while I remember math instead of 20 years later when I forget it and am old in the class!”
Of my 5 courses, stats is looking easy in comparison to 2 of my other course….too much that i don’t know where to begin.

Hope you feel a little better soon!

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