thankfulness
Nov. 7th, 2010 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerToday's is easy.
After a fun day of gaming with friends and a dinner with the Musketeers, I got home to find my grades for the comps had been posted. As I predicted, I failed the last essay and passed the first with distinction (after spending nearly three bloody hours on it, I better have! :-) I passed the second and, much to my delight, passed the third! So I receive an overall pass for the examination, completing my last academic requirement for my master's degree! Unless some administrative hiccup takes place, I should receive my degree as of the 15th.
So I'm thankful that this long, strange trip is done. I started the degree program in 2004 and gave up on it several times. I completed only 4 of the required 12 courses in the first three years. I took one the following year; in 2008 I registered for only 2 courses: I withdrew from one and dropped the other (2008 was, for the most part, a Really Bad Year). Then in the summer of 2009 I decided the effort I had put into the degree was too much to be wasted, and I blitzed, completing 7 courses in two years, ending up with a 3.97 GPA.
I started this thinking that it would be a boon to my professional career. I ended it mostly because I wanted to have accomplished it, having once started it. I am pleased, and also relieved. It's an odd feeling these days, getting to the end of the week and realizing that I can do whatever I like with my weekend--I have no reading assignments and no papers hanging over my head. Next time I do something like this, I am SO doing it full time, instead of trying to go to school *and* work.
After a fun day of gaming with friends and a dinner with the Musketeers, I got home to find my grades for the comps had been posted. As I predicted, I failed the last essay and passed the first with distinction (after spending nearly three bloody hours on it, I better have! :-) I passed the second and, much to my delight, passed the third! So I receive an overall pass for the examination, completing my last academic requirement for my master's degree! Unless some administrative hiccup takes place, I should receive my degree as of the 15th.
So I'm thankful that this long, strange trip is done. I started the degree program in 2004 and gave up on it several times. I completed only 4 of the required 12 courses in the first three years. I took one the following year; in 2008 I registered for only 2 courses: I withdrew from one and dropped the other (2008 was, for the most part, a Really Bad Year). Then in the summer of 2009 I decided the effort I had put into the degree was too much to be wasted, and I blitzed, completing 7 courses in two years, ending up with a 3.97 GPA.
I started this thinking that it would be a boon to my professional career. I ended it mostly because I wanted to have accomplished it, having once started it. I am pleased, and also relieved. It's an odd feeling these days, getting to the end of the week and realizing that I can do whatever I like with my weekend--I have no reading assignments and no papers hanging over my head. Next time I do something like this, I am SO doing it full time, instead of trying to go to school *and* work.
