That's right. I have been out of commission for the past several weeks because I was studying for my oral comprehensive exam, which is something that all second year grad students have to do. Basically, you write a proposal for your research, and then you get locked in a room with three professors and you tell them about your research. And they proceed to ask you WHATEVER THEY WANT about your project or about biochemistry or chemistry in general (in my case... Presumably not if you were an English major, har har). So NOWWWW I am all fancy and am feeling pretty smart because the whole thing really went very well and I was done in an hour, which is pretty fricking quick if you ask me. ANYWAY. It was awesome. I kicked its ass. And it is such a huge relief and I am so happy that it is finally over. The morning after, I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about kinetics, dP/dt = ... and I realized, I don't have to care about kinetics anymore. HA! Take that Kinetics! And now I can go back to doing things I used to like to do, there is such a feeling of freedom, and I am excited about my research as well, so Everything is all Really quite great right now!!!! HOORAY!!
I will say that the entire orals experience was really quite horrible, weeks and weeks of dread and counting down, and I got sick and had a headache for like 5 days, and THEN I got strep throat, and then Phillippe got sick and died (thats for another post), and everything was all sucky in the world and I wasn't sure if I was going to make it, I couldn't even consider how I was going to do, and I was SOOO sick of studying, but I had to, just because I don't even know what I would do if I failed. But now I did it and it is GREAT.
2 comments:
Hooray for you, Michelle! Sounds like you're on top o' the world! And I never doubted you could do it!
I never had any doubt. Its nice to read something as cheerful as this post.
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