What did I know about Excel before going to Trinity? It is a Microsoft program which can help people do calculations faster, more conveniently and also give out always exact answers.
But how could I use it to help me? Don't ask me because I simply had no idea.
And then after 2 weeks, I feel Excel is the unlimited resource with uncountable already set-up functions which I may never use up. Like so many other students, I learn Excel for my real life and my real Statistics and Chemistry Laboratory class. If it was not for Excel, how could you calculate the mean, the standard deviation, variance, confidence interval and so many other difficult-to-remember terms of more than 20 different elements? The same question for the value of different cations' concentration in a five or six significant figures. But Excel is not simply about calculation, I just found out that I can also use some other functions like "If", which is totally new to me. Honestly, I havenot used "Filter" and "Sort" before, so I think that these functions are marvellous. Besides this awesomeness, Excel formatting seems somehow unappealing to me. It is more complicated than dealing with Microsoft files as you have to edit both the cells themselves and the inside content. Also, the conditional formatting may be sometimes confusing.
After all, Excel is a wonderful program and it is really helpful with Statistics students like me.
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