I Passed

[raymansean]

My Comps that is. That means I now have an official plan to get a PhD :-) oh yeah and a pay raise :-) Now I just need to push out a couple more papers in the next 9 months and then life will be on cruise control. Oh wait then I have to find a job and then think about having baby(ies).

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[raymansean]

We had an Admission to candidacy exam at the end of my 1st semester of Grad school that was the nerve wrecker. My comps were more of a meeting to propose what will do for research that is worthy of their money and a PhD with my committee. I got to a point last friday where I was done. I had polished the written proposal and the presentation as much as I was going to. Monday was spent doing work that was not related to the proposal and 2 hrs on Tuesday was spent reading my submitted paper, the proposal, and the presentation, and some lit directly related to what I was proposing, just to get me warmed up. Then at 9:30 I went upstairs prepared the conference room, setting up the video conferencing equipment. At 10:00 I gave the presentation that lasted ~55 min with questions. They then dismissed me. By 11:00 they had called me back into the conference room and informed me that I passed. I tend to get to a point where studying is no longer beneficial. My attitude becomes "either I am going to do extremely well or I am going to fail so miserably that it will no longer matter." When I get to that point, I am ready and I have yet to fail once I get to that point.

[vorblessing]

what's the cruise control scenario? also: again, YAY. congrats :)
wanna celebrate friday by watching SG1: Continuum? I bet we could persuade the Ms to use the screen.