Check-Mark

I made this list tonight to make myself feel like I'd accomplished something. :)



I think submitting comps tonight was one of the greatest feelings ever! Now....the waiting game begins to find out if I passed them. Anyone know when we find out?

Comps

Comps comps comps are upon us! I'm sitting on my front porch right now working on getting mine rolling! Looking forward to turning them in on Thursday so I can put a big fat check mark next to "Comps" on my graduation checklist. :) One step closer to that cap and gown! Good luck to everyone else who is also working on comps this week!

Portfolio

Yesterday as I was blogging about my thesis and comps, I realized that our portfolio is also due soon...the requirements state a month before graduation, so I'm assuming a little before April 8th?

I spent the better part of yesterday working on my portfolio and was just wondering if anyone else had started theirs yet. I'm happy to report that I got lots done on mine and that it's coming along well. Its kind of fun to look back at all the old projects that we've completed in our course of study and could also be a great review for comps as well.

Springing Forward and March Madness

I couldn't understand why yesterday in church they were already announcing the special service times for our Good Friday and Easter services. Then I realized that it's because Easter is a mere 2 weeks away. And when I got an email last night from a friend of mine that it was time to go set up my bracket for the online college basketball March Madness bracket contest that we've done for the past 5 years now, I couldn't believe it. We turned the clocks ahead this weekend. What does all this mean? That our theses are due in like a month and a half. I don't know about you all, but I've got a LONG way to go before that due date. And comps. Somewhere in all this we're supposed to be studying for comps as well.

I don't think there is an official "law of the universe" out there that states that "the further behind you fall, the furtherer behind you're going to fall" but that law exists in my world. I get a day behind, and then somehow it seems easier to get 2 days behind, then 4, then so on. Then pretty soon you're used to the internal stress of knowing that homework HAS to get done TODAY that you don't get it done today, or tomorrow for that matter. I've never struggled in school, ever. Not as a kid, not in high school, not in college...even grad school has been pretty easy for me. Until this semester. Maybe I have "senioritis" you know, that infectious disease that hits high school and college seniors who are ready to graduate and get out of Dodge?

But I WILL succeed, get my work finished, pass my thesis (AND comps), and walk across that stage on May 8th to get my Masters' Degree...if it kills me. And this will be my last blog post about how difficult it has been for me to concentrate this semester. I promise. So lets strap in and get it done, fellow thesis writers. The light at the end of that tunnel is shining brighter (and for an extra hour each day now thanks to daylight savings time!).