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Social media seems to make everyone’s life appear as though the Buddha’s teachings on suffering have been modernized.  Life is suffering  has given way to  life is filled with abundant travel, insight and pet-cuteness.   As I scroll through my Instagram feed on any given day, for example, it seems as though the majority of my Instagram friends are enjoying epic runs, savoring delightful meals, or documenting egregious acts of pet-cuteness. I find blogging can often reward similar behavior. In sitting down to write this blog, I considered three possible topics. Two were kind of fun, and the third had a bit of emotional sting to it. As you can probably surmise, I am opting to pursue the latter. It’s a long story, though I’m only now getting around to taking statistics coursework. Typically graduate students slog through statistics coursework their first semesters in graduate school, and then utilize their statistics knowledge to produce their research, and ultimately, a thesis