In one of those more reflective moments, over a beer of course, I wondered how in the hell I got here. If you don't know what I am talking about, let me relay the scene. I can be anywhere and someone may ask me what I do. The person's face distorts like I have just kicked him in the groin. He usually shakes his head and relays the story about how he almost failed out of college.
Statistics is like math but with lots of word problems.
Now word problems, as we all know, are the bane of any young person's math career. With that out of the way, the question still stands. All right, there are a few of those in the bunch. So with that knowledge, you now know that every graduate program has its nerds, partiers, screw-ups, et cetera. I won't lie and tell you that being in a graduate program is easy.