writing...

on the questionnaires i received for my study, the most common thing students wrote when asked in what class they were, was "writting." writting... you'd think that the first thing they learn to write when they are in the writing class is to learn how to spell writing... i'd say that i saw that mistake on about 90% of the questionnaires coming from writing classes.

anyway, i'm writting a lot these days ;) that's all i can do because i'm stuck stuck stuck with the stats!!! i spent four hours in the stats consulting lab yesterday and three hours last week... for practically nothing. there seems to be some kind of virus, or the documents have been corrupted somehow, but we can't use the stuff we've entered. the first set of data is ok... but the second one is basically worth nada. when we upload it into SAS, it's all messed up, cutting words, giving blanks instead of numbers, calculating things wrong, etc. which is why, last week, when veronica and i tried to do the comparisons between our two sets of entries, it came out completely wrong. so yesterday we tried everything... it works in SPSS and other stats programs, but not SAS. and i am NOT learning how to use SPSS now that i spent almost two years learning about SAS. this is very discouraging. things had been going so well so far...

and now, just when i'd decided to stay an extra year at purdue (so the stats problem wasn't really an emergency), my sister decided to get married in october... and i won't be able to go to her wedding if i stay at purdue. i have to have a job to get a new visa (because mine expired) and be able to leave the country... well, i can leave, but i couldn't come back in. and i can't get this new visa without a job. so there, the stats problem is dramatic and the job situation is a disaster. so i keep writing, sorry, writting, and i hope that something, some day, will work...