Excel

I had no previous experience with excel, so I learned a ton about it and all of its intricacies. Some of the biggest things that stood out to me were things like how to make graphs based off of data, how to use formulas to help you calculate values, and how Excel can be linked to Word and Powerpoint. I was really impressed with the fact that you can simply highlight a set of values and make a really detailed graph or chart based on that information. In my future in baseball I can easily use Excel to make spreadsheets about my pitching stats. It would be very helpful in sorting my data from each outing and then calculating things like my ERA. This is also very useful in schools for projects on just about anything involving numbers. My calculus teacher uses it all the time to show things like exponential growth and standard deviation. Also, in the business world from any kind of accounting standpoint Excel must be an invaluable resource, because it does so many functions with relative ease that would have to be done by hand otherwise. Overall Excel is simply a great invention.