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Introductory Statistics is a course that all UMass biology majors must take, but many students do not remember much from it. I took Introductory Statistics at my old school about three years ago. Thinking back, I do not remember a lot. In the class I took we were given formula sheets so a lot of the formulas we used were not necessary to remember. In addition, I remember almost everything we did was just punching things into a calculator. Some things I remember looking at were baseball stats and probability. For example, we spent some time looking at the Monte Hall problem. I also remember looking at distributions. We learned about the empirical rule and how statistics fit into it. For the empirical rule I remember 68.26% of data falls within 1 standard deviation, 95.44% in 2 standard deviations, and 99.73% in 3 standard deviations. Although I am a biology major, math has never been a really fun or interesting subject for me.