Currently I'm in a summer course for 2nd-year university statistics. The final exam is this week, I'm set for it so this thread is not about that. It's about something else: applying it and continuing with it.

Initially when I enrolled, everyone was telling me how stats is so boring, dull, etc... . I'm quite good at math so I thought it wouldn't be too hard. Now, I realize that I really like it. Whether or not other people do or don't is of no consequence to me.

But now I'm curious, for people who are in graduate school or are doctors or have some other form of higher education in any field, how often and how much do you use stats? I know some people on here have their PhD or PsyD and others are in graduate school or finishing university, so how much do you use it?

I'm thinking of minoring in it and adding that to my current double major biology and psychology, minor chemistry (I'm going to drop the minor chemistry no matter what). I've talked to my prof and she did say you need stats for graduate school and research (I've read many research and review papers so I'm aware it's needed) but just how much?

I'm not wanting to continue it because it's practical but rather because I enjoy it, to me it's fun to calculate whatever and interpret it for the situation. But ideally I'd like it to be of some use.

However, there is one bit I'm concerned about. I've heard that in upper years/levels, it can be tied in with computer science or programming. Despite me being a teenager and the whole idea of teenagers being little techies, I'm one of the worst ones when it comes to computers. We had a little bit of computer programming in high school and to say the least, I was horrible in it. Perhaps it was because the teacher was rather clueless on it but even now, when I see my friends who are great in computer programming typing whatever babble and I ask them to teach me it, the train goes and I'm not even at the station to put it lightly.

One main reason why I hopped onto the stats aside from the fact that I needed it for my major, is because when I learn something new, I want to know as much of it as I can and may just ignore whatever I was doing before (not always the case). I want to know that after I've read, memorized and understood the stuff, that people use the higher levels of it for reasons other than to fascinate themselves with their intellect.

So hopefully someone respond and this thread doesn't go to waste.