well, it's over. I passed. I must say though, after the first five minutes of my presentation I was hit with a question that I was sure my response to would be grounds for failure. In the end though it all worked out ok. I don't really have much more to say on that. I wasn't even too terribly nervous.

This week has been busy and hectic. Actually, make that the past few weeks. I've had more late-nights in the past 3 weeks or so than I've probably ever had before. My qualifier paper was polished up and submitted last Wednesday, then after a quick little break in PA for Chris' wedding I started working on the presentation. I really wanted to ( Read more... )

It's strange, lately I've seemed to be the most optimistic and excited about the impending horror which is my qualifier exam at the end of the day before going home. I feel like during the whole day I'm staring at books and rewriting the same equations over and over again in different ways and just feel like I'm going in circles. Then some time ( Read more... )