Math.

I am a social worker. I chose to go into this profession because of a deep desire to help others, mainly children. This is a profession that relies on "people skills." When you think of the skills it takes to deal with people, do you include "knowledge of math" among them? Neither do I. And yet, the CSWE does. The agency responsible for deciding what we, as social workers, need to learn thinks that knowledge of statistics and data analysis are important. Granted, if I wanted to be a researcher (which I don't), I could understand this. Because I have no desire to be a researcher, I have no desire to learn statistics. But, I am learning it nonetheless. I haven't done math since my junior year of high school (I took math my senior year, but I wouldn't say that I actually did anything in that class). That's over 10 years! It's not that the math that I'm learning is terribly complicated, but, well, it's still math - and I hate math. That's why I'm currently writing in my blog instead of doing my statistics homework. Math makes my brain hurt, even when I understand it. Do I feel like I'm back in high school again? You bet I do. And that's probably the real reason why I loathe my stats class. Because, honestly, who on earth wants to be back in high school again? I shudder at the thought...