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I went home, studied a bit more and slept. The next morning I was still
toast. Sleep hadn’t helped. I dragged myself
over to school for the last final
exam… and, really, I was too tired to care how
I did! That was a first for me.
I’d always been really competitive with myself
about my math grades. (cough-
geek!) That final was with my favorite teacher
too, so I typically would have
wanted to do really well for him. But, that
day, I was too tired to care… and it
was the very first math test I’d taken where
I wasn’t the least bit nervous! It
was great. I just sat calmly and easily worked
the problems. There was even
a problem that wasn’t like anything I’d seen
before. This teacher was a
notoriously tricky guy! I had to figure out
how to work a process backwards…
But, I got it! In fact, I got a perfect
paper! My only perfect math final exam and
I wasn’t even nervous.
After that, tests weren’t as bad for me… I realized that I didn’t have
to get
myself all worked up over them.
But, then came my thesis defense! For my master’s degree in math, I had
to write a thesis. This was, basically, a 117
page book that contained a 63
page proof. (cough-super-geek!) The other 54
pages contained my
explanations of the math used in the proof. It
took me about eight months to
write, and it had to be reviewed and accepted
or I wasn’t going to get my
degree. So, this was a BIG deal.
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