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obviously another random time to make a random update on here....
brief life update: turned 24 last week (well, two weeks ago now), graduated with my Master's, going to San Francisco next weekend.
but on to what's on my mind now to cause me to write. i am not one to 'talk myself up' (one factor as to why i am really looking forward to interviewing for jobs where i will have to sell myself...great. i think there is a fine line between being able to sell yourself and just coming off as arrogant - i don't think i come off as arrogant, but i don't think i can sell myself either.). there were 3 people who earned distinction on our MCRP comps, myself being one of them. i told my parents and owen, but i didn't really broadcast it to anyone else. (i did put in my facebook status one day "distinctable" or something one day, but i figure not many people would figure out what that meant.) joey, on the other hand, posted it every where he could and has told everyone he possible could. i mean, i care about that stuff, but i'm not openly competitive about it - if that makes sense. the thing that really is starting to *bother* me though is that joey keeps telling people that i am one of the ones who got distinction, and they are all apparently shocked by it. i mean, obviously he got it - he studied constantly for the better part of a month. i studied too, but not nearly that much - and mostly only for 2 of the 4 questions. so it made me feel pretty good to know that i did better than everyone (grade-wise i tied with joey but, as my parents pointed out, i got an a+ on one and he didn't... :-P) partly from studying and partly from what i just naturally know. it's just good to know that so many (not everyone, luckily) people apparently think i'm real dumb.... ugh.
just needed to share how i felt about that.
brief life update: turned 24 last week (well, two weeks ago now), graduated with my Master's, going to San Francisco next weekend.
but on to what's on my mind now to cause me to write. i am not one to 'talk myself up' (one factor as to why i am really looking forward to interviewing for jobs where i will have to sell myself...great. i think there is a fine line between being able to sell yourself and just coming off as arrogant - i don't think i come off as arrogant, but i don't think i can sell myself either.). there were 3 people who earned distinction on our MCRP comps, myself being one of them. i told my parents and owen, but i didn't really broadcast it to anyone else. (i did put in my facebook status one day "distinctable" or something one day, but i figure not many people would figure out what that meant.) joey, on the other hand, posted it every where he could and has told everyone he possible could. i mean, i care about that stuff, but i'm not openly competitive about it - if that makes sense. the thing that really is starting to *bother* me though is that joey keeps telling people that i am one of the ones who got distinction, and they are all apparently shocked by it. i mean, obviously he got it - he studied constantly for the better part of a month. i studied too, but not nearly that much - and mostly only for 2 of the 4 questions. so it made me feel pretty good to know that i did better than everyone (grade-wise i tied with joey but, as my parents pointed out, i got an a+ on one and he didn't... :-P) partly from studying and partly from what i just naturally know. it's just good to know that so many (not everyone, luckily) people apparently think i'm real dumb.... ugh.
just needed to share how i felt about that.