I PASSED

[cornerofmadness]

WHeee. The day started badly. The moron neighbors started pounding on metal at 6AM thanks for robbing me of my final hour of sleep. I get to school and everyone including my three instructors were impressed about my LoTR Fellowship of the Ring leaf pin. Is that the silver expensive one? Yes it is. My parents got it for my birthday.

Okay they first asked me if I thought I passed and I said no. They said NO ONE thinks they've passed. Nothing I studied was actually touched on. I was totally panicked and it didn't help when you get asked questions like:
1) Are there ecosystems on Mars. If so why, if not why.
2) Why couldn't the Oliphants of LoTR really exist, explain physiologically (they can't dump heat. once you get to a certain size you can't dump heat and you cook that's why they think the really big dinosaurs were cold blooded while the smaller carnivorous ones were warm blooded)
3) Explain the effect on the environment if there was no tilt to the earth. (This took about a 1/2 hour of My main advisor drawing me pictures and me slowly trying to figuring out what the hell
4) When we colonize Mars is there enough light to grow plants and if not what do we do?
At least we asked some conservation questions, I blew a podiatry question totally, how embarrassing and I had to draw the damn path of blood thru the heart, thank god Utah made me do a presentation on that so I'm standing there singing that stupid Bayer aspiring song ala Potsey.

Important thing I passed. Now my paper has to be redone ONE more time. And now I don't have to have the pictures in the text. I can put them on their own page which would have been so much simplier in the first place. And I have to have it bound???

I got my independent research to do and I should graduate in a month. WHEEE

Comments

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

*hugs* CONGRATS!!!

Why couldn't the Oliphants of LoTR really exist, explain physiologically - huh? Well, so nice that you shared the same fandom.

I had to draw the damn path of blood thru the heart, - I remember you mentioning that you were studying that.

Woohooo!!!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Yeah Never thought my geekiness would pay off.

[marenfic.livejournal.com]

Congratulations.

Now what the heck is your degree in?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

This degree is a masters of biology. I have a b.s. in biology, a b.s. in chemistry, a medical doctorate and oh, if I ever bothered to transfer in my writing courses back to my old school I could actually have a b.a. in English.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

la, la, la, horay, horay, la, la, horay.

That's the official "thank G-d the exam is over and I passed" song. In case you didn't know.

Now go out and party!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Thanks. See, I like your plan. Hey, on a totally different note I saw some artwork in a Law and Order rerun that looked a lot like your sister's stuff.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

If only that were true because then she'd actually get paid!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

There's that. But seriously it really looked like her breast cancer series piece...well, at quick glance since it was on for such a brief period of time.

[psychic-warrior.livejournal.com]

Told you so. :)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes you did

[bashipforever.livejournal.com]

Wow grats! And you got some cool questions too. Lol the LOTR one.

Good luck with the independent research!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I just wished the questions had been a little more down to earth. the research is dull as dirt, mostly complying manatee data.

[catlove.livejournal.com]

Yay! Congrats :D Graduation in one month!! Woot!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Now if I just had that job lined up...

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

Yay You! :)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty happy. I'd be happier if I had a job waiting.

[adeliedreams.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, even if a bit late. :)

Those are some odd questions... What would they have done if you gave them a blank stare at the mention of Oliphants (like I probably would've done...)? Were they just making up random questions on the fly, or was Tolkien required reading?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I was wearing a Tolkein pin. They handed me the oliphants to help me relax. The thing is this is 'critical thinking' they didn't want me to spout back the stuff they taught me. They wanted me to USE it.

And thanks.