The final stretch

This semester has gone by really fast for me. Mary, you say, the semester is only like half over! Well, my semester is almost over. In fact, after November 3, I will be done with graduate school and will lack only crossing the stage on graduation day December 15. That is because my comprehensive exams are that day.

I have to say, I have done well in graduate school, making A's in all my classes but one, and I got a B in that one. However, these comprehensive exams, or "comps" as they are fondly known as, are really starting to make me nervous.

It's not actually a huge thing - you just show up to school on a Saturday morning, write two essays, and then you are done. You get to leave and your professors stay there and grade your essays. Then you either get a "fail," "Pass," or "high pass."

I would like to get a high pass, but frankly my friends, a "Pass" would be just fine right about now. I am just so ready to be DONE. And I better pass - I've already bought my cap & gown.