I have enjoyed getting back into statistics. I have not worked with statistics since MA-105 and MA-106 during freshman year. I like the fact that I am now applying these statistical concepts to actual datasets. The instructions in the textbook for using SPSS are very clear. The numbers-crunching part is easy. However, it took me a little while longer to understand some of the concepts behind the charts and graphs I was producing in SPSS, such as skewness. After some discussion with the professor, I now feel like I have a solid grasp on both the statistical concepts themselves and the SPSS analysis tools.
On another note, our group has been having some difficulty picking a topic for our political analysis paper. We bounced around several ideas, but some of them were unfeasible, at least for a one-semester undergraduate political science class. We have finally decided on a general area of interest, but still need to narrow our focus and produce a research question.