Excel Knowledge

Excel is a very complicated program. It can be quite intuitive, but one has to be familar with its settings in order to take advantage of this. I am really glad to have the chance to learn more about excel now. Most of my chem and bio labs demand the ability to use excel. More importantly, how well one knows excel determines how long (and difficult) your lab reports will be to complete. For this reason, I want to learn as much as I can. I have never needed to use excel before I started this year, but it is integral to all my science classes. For example, in the recent past my lab group needed to make a histogram. I definitely did not know how to approach that. Luckily for me however, my lab partner easily created one. Also, today in lab we graphed growth curves of E. coli cultures. The difficult part of this assignment was that we needed not only the growth curves, but the the log of the growth curves. I don't know how to make a graph of the log of a growth curve either. I suppose these are all examples that I can look up in the textbook, but it is so much easier to learn when we go through it in class.