history nerd points to anyone who understands the above reference.
so…I’m DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Woke up yesterday at 6…got my computer, keyboard, and about 10 lbs. worth of snacks together, and marched out the door with a similarly stressed out friend to the bus stop.
7:05AM wait a minute…the bus doesn’t start coming till 7:30!
7:06-7:25AM running through westwood toting increasingly heavy backpack toward history deptmt
7:30AM arrive sweaty & somewhat vile at grad advisor’s door. Commune briefly with anxious cohort.
7:50AM Receive the test…set up computer, keyboard, etc in advisor’s office. She left me yummy snacks! Aw!
8AM Begin outlining question 1.
8:10AM realize this is not going to work out. Abandon outline, start new question.
Actually, the rest is kind of a blur of typing. I remember sprinting to the bathroom for breaks. At 4:45 I realize that they closed? Cancelled? our print accounts in the lounge. I beg the department office to please print my comps. They kindly oblige, and I turn that sucker in at 5:01. Alcohol in plastic cups and wheat thins with cohort outside.
My assessment of my performance–passing, I hope. 25 pages total. I think I nailed the big 3-century question, and the 3rd historiographcial question, but the short era question was iffy, I think. Hopefully, 75% is passing!
Mr. P came afterwards and treated me to my favorite thai noodle shop. I feel pretty relieved that it’s over at this point, though now I’m anxious about when I get my results.
I can’t believe it’s the start of a school year. This test robbed me of my summer.
**********UPDATE************
I PASSED! 
One step closer to that PhD…and one huge, huge sigh of relief.
