I think I'm gonna turn pro...

I got my grades back from my grad classes, and I am still making the straight "A's." I am very relieved, because I honestly didn't know what grade I was going to get in my special ed law class. I think I have a publishable paper coming from my other class, which is what they tell me I need to have under my belt.

Flurries in May...

I have published a flurry of posts already this month, because I have finished my grad classes for this semester. They were difficult and extremely time consuming. I literally fell asleep reading every night, and that was usually sometime between 2 and 3 am. I need the break (to do other things, like write blogs).

Winter Band Performance

Carl was part of the Winter concert band performance. He is hard to see, but he plays saxophone, and is seated next to the tall kid in blue (his best friend, Joey). He played well.

Spelling Bea

Carl won the right to represent his school for the 7th grade at the regional spelling bee. He didn't win, but he did enjoy himself. The "pronouncer" was terrible, mispronouncing some basic words like "rupee" and "synopsis." The kids were great, she and the judges were terrible. However, Carl lost fair and square, mis-spelling "anchovy."

Statistically Speaking....

I am in the process of completing my Ph.D. Or, I guess you could say starting my Ph.D. Regardless, I have just completed my second stats class Multiple Regression, with an "A." So far, I am batting a thousand ( a statistic, if you didn't know).

Can we test the likelihood that my gpa is 4.0? Yes, we can!

Ho: X bar = 4.0

Ha: X bar does not = 4.0.

Simple Regression model, use Student T test statistic, with alpha level of .05. Test. Result is not significant. Therefore, we fail to reject the null hypothesis. We accept that the mean gpa for this grad school monkey does not significantly vary from 4.0.

Now, thank God that part is over. On to the bigger and better things to study!