Excel experience

So I've used excel for years but I've never ventured too far away from the basics: addition, weightings etc. Due to the course, I had no other choice but to venture out of my comfort zone to create formulae to execute certain functions.
If anyone can delve into the mind of an English teacher, you will soon realise that ANYTHING to do with Math/functions/formulae tend to offset much anxiety and terror in the mind of the English teacher. I won't lie, but most times when it comes to Math there's a switch in my brain, like an electricty breaker switch, that automatically turns off to avoid damage/stress.
I was glad that the tutorial on spreadsheets came later in the assignments because had it come earlier I suppose I would have or at least been tempted to drop out.
I opened the spreadsheet tutorial at least 7 times on separate days before I decided that I had to try it. Honestly every time I opened it I felt as though I was reading some unintelligible language.
ONLY because I know tomorrow I needed to hand in all assignments, did I force myself to understand the tutorial. I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to follow the instructions and make things work. There is still a part of me that believes that if I try the EXACT thing another time, it wouldn't work....somehow today was magic and I was able to complete the task with ease...(except for the formula that showed semi-colons instead of commas which kept giving me an error message).
Anyway, after my experience this afternoon I feel more confident to venture into creating more complex formulae that will help with the creation of my analyses as an administrator.