I just got through my first exam in Statistics class, and I feel like whatever the intellectual equivalent of a bad ass is. There was a hole in the sheet of notes I wrote up a half hour before the test, so I was forced to backwards derive a property of independence by logically figuring out what would make the problem have an interesting answer. Basically, I made shit up and ran with it after deciding it looked “right enough.”

An entire letter grade depended upon that leap of faith, and I just filled in the hole on my equations sheet and confirmed I’m right. Fuck yes! Basic problem solving/test taking skills trump mathematical aptitude every time!!