What are the odds?

...that I would ever take a statistics class? Very freakin' slim I would have said not to long ago. But here I sit 12 hours after my first statistics exam wondering how that went. Answer is; Not to well probably. But in this case passing in itself must be considered a great succes. The class in question is COM 6070 and this is my story:
Actually the full name for the course is Quantitative methods in Communication and when I enrolled for it I honestly thought that qualitative studies had more to them that just doing statistics. Apparently they do not. I have been sitting for two months now crunching number in a program I don't understand (SPSS 17 anyone?) and getting result I can't read: "Unstandardized Coefficients: B = 6.847 Std. Error = 1.004" anyone? This relates to a popular analysis called a regression in which we try to predict future behaviour. But i'm getting ahead of myself. The major problem with this course, apart from the fact that its mindnumbingly boring, is that is normally requires two pre-requisites. One that introduces the student to the study of statistics and one that introduces the student to SPSS 17. As I have had neither I am royally screwed. This fact dawned on me quite quickly, because it felt as if I had missed quite a few classes even at the very first lecture (those of you who remember "Sproglig analyse" will know how I felt). People were cheerily conversing about Chi-Square functions and the difference between independent samples T-tests and dependent samples T-tests. And I said: Ok ok the professor can't hear you right now so give it a rest!. And i've been lost ever since. But did I give up? No sirreeebob! I purchased "Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics" (SHS) and started reading. This amounted to pissing on a wildfire however, and so I secretly developed a tactic that would get me through this devious course. SHS has little guides after each chapter explaining how to compute data, regardsless of how well you understand the input and output. So this entire midterm I have crunched numbers I don't really understand and given answers I don't know how to enterpret. I am like a little baby mimicking the behaviour of the adults. I now write things like: "And the exact probability that a t-score of -2.449 was obtained by chance is .022 = very unlikely." Odds of passing are relatively slim I predict with my new found understanding of probability... Thank god I have found a new and even more lowbrow statistics book: