mr grieves
wow. I took a monster of a test last nite for my class. It turned out to not be quite as bad as I thought it could be, but it was still pretty bad. And I studied like crazy for it, so when I was done, it was a huge relief.
School is great!
After that, I went straight to Misty's to play poker and get drunk. Solves all my problems. It was pretty fun, as I didn't lose any money.
You know something funny about this class? It's a class on digital communications, so much of it has to do with probabilities of errors during transmission and receiving. When I first started taking those classes, I hated all the probability calculation crap. Very tedious, and uninteresting. Then I started playing poker fanatically, and it turns out, to know what your chances of winning in certain situations are (ie, being able to come up with those nice little percentages you always see on the poker tv shows) you have to do some whopping probability calculations. So, to better understand how to make good decisions in poker (read: not lose so much money) I needed to be able to figure out my probability of winning in many different situations, so I had to refamiliarize myself with probabilty theory. Now I'm fairly comfortable with it, and it's making my life in this class much easier.
I would be struggling in this class if I hadn't gotten better at probabilty theory.
So the lesson is, poker helps you in all avenues of life!