Nothing starts out a blog post like alliteration!
I pretty much checked out of my own life for last few days leading into this weekend. My wife was wonderful, and my bosses seem to understand. I had to prepare for my final comprehensive examinations for my Masters program. You're thinking: what are those like?
Well, around Christmas time me and the other victims were given 10 questions to prepare our answers for. The questions are not yes-no, but are multiple questions that wind around each other that are wrapped in a riddle confused in a conundrum. In other words, the answers are not necessarily obvious and I had to spend many hours finding in the answers in the notes that I saved from the last year and a half of graduate work. I spent hours studying my answers to the questions and the feedback I had recieved from professors regarding my answers that they had reviewed.
On Saturday I showed up and took the test on campus in a computer lab. I was given three of the questions to complete in 3 hours, lunch hour, and then 2 more questions to complete in the last two hours. It was probably the most intense five hours of my life, and made me glad that I am not moving on for more exams, more research defenses which I have heard can be much more nasty.
Being done with the exams was the best part about them. I felt quite energized and happy, and I drove to Kansas City that same night to spend the weekend with the Crane's and our friend Matt Wilson. He's going on a mission and enters the MTC Wednesday. I personally am very proud to call Matt my friend. We wish him nothing but the best on his church mission in Macon, GA.
Back to my tests- I feel somewhat confident I passed, and if I did not, Carrie informs me that she will divorce me. I told her that that did not help my nerves, and she retorted that she was just so confident in me. When I get that nervous I start to shake. It happened when I would play math Around the World in second grade. It happened when I took timed multiplications table tests in third grade (Which I dominated and bragged about). It happened in plays in high school. It happens when speak in church. It definitely happened when I asked Carrie to marry me. I can't stop shaking for awhile.
I can't wait until I enter the real world of no exams.
7 comments:
I, too, have often thought, "Man, I can't wait until I never have to do [insert dreaded activity here] again." It never happens. There is always something else waiting to scare the pants off of you just around the next corner. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Congratulations! I was so happy to see that last set of tests be over when I finished my Master's degree as well... except 20 years later I had to sit and take the "Massachusetts physics teachers test" in order to get a license to teach here in Belmont. And my brain wasn't nearly as "nimble" as in my 20's when I took my Master's tests. Take those tests while you are young!
Soon all of those tests will be a distant memory & you'll find yourself wishing for a way to show off just how smart you are! As for Carrie's comment, I can almost picture her saying it...
I am still laughing about Carrie saying she would divorce you if you didn't pass! She must be very confident in you, b/c I can't imagine she would ever do that. Brandon's very jealous you are almost done...way to go!
I AM very confidant in him. It was hard for me to put into words just HOW confidant I was, he just took it the wrong way (I'll blame it on the stress).
You got it, buddy! I know you passed!
-Graham
oh, whatever. Carrie threatened to divorce you because she needs a sugar daddy. A Daddy Warbucks, if you will. But we've already started calling YOU that, so it might be a difficult switch. I'm sure you will pass.
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