School Rant

I have ONE class to finish in order to get my master's certificate in GIS, and it's pissing me the hell off. It's a geographic statistics class, online, in which we're getting virtually no instruction, guidance or feedback from our non-responsive, uninterested instructor.

Our first problem set is a TWENTY PAGE DOCUMENT full of typos and vague instructions. Problem number 11: Write an essay on Exponential Distribution and make some graphs. Use a software called JMP that makes no sense unless you're already fairly versed in stats.

Okay.

Since there's no lecture or anything to guide us, I start with Wikipedia:

In probability theory and statistics, the exponential distributions (a.k.a. negative exponential distributions) are a class of continuous probability distributions. They describe the times between events in a Poisson process...

Okay, what's a Poisson process?

A Poisson process, named after the French mathematician Siméon-Denis Poisson (1781–1840), is a stochastic process...

Okay, what's a stochastic process?

In probability theory, a stochastic process, or sometimes random process, is the counterpart to a deterministic process or deterministic system...

Okay, what's a deterministic system?

In mathematics, a deterministic system is a system in which no randomness is involved in the development of future states of the system.

By this point I've forgotten what I was even looking for in the first place, and all the crap I read in between.