Thoughts During Comps Season, VII

I know all the things ever.  Or, all the things I will ever know.  Or, as much as I plan to learn before comps.

Friends who are taking comps with me, do not be afraid.

Friends who are not, pray for us -- from 9am to 3pm tomorrow.  Then pray for our professors to be merciful.

St. Joseph of Cupertino, pray for us.  All you holy men and women, all you angels and saints, pray for us.

Thoughts During Comps Season, VI

Shelly gave me advice from a friend/fellow-sufferer: pray through each question and come up with a litany of saints for each.  I did this and I have lots of friends in high places.  [Side-note: I was surprised at how often JPII came into my litanies.]  However, I kept feeling that someone was missing.  At last I realized that we had read oogobs (a technical theological term) of Joseph Ratzinger.  Who is still in the pilgrim Church with us.  Unfortunately, it is too late to write to him to ask for his prayers and he is no longer Tweeting.

Thoughts During Comps Season, V

I am starting to have comps dreams.  Last night, someone took my seat -- sitting on my jacket! -- while I went to get a pen.  This created a huge problem because it was the only place in the room with proper feng-shui.  If someone does this in real life, I will sit on that person.  I still regret that I did not do this in my dream.

Thoughts During Comps Season, IV

We all have questions we hope we get and questions we hope we do not get.  I realized this once more as I talked to myself like a crazy person for two hours outside the student center today.  An example of how I answered part of a question I hope I do not get:

"We -- yeah, Gregory -- gender...." That's all I've got.

St. Joseph of Cupertino, pray for us.

Thoughts During Comps Season, III

Studying so many classes at once is a problem, because I want to go over the things that I like, but I already know the things I like, because I find them interesting.  So I over-study fun things and ignore the hard ones...

Thoughts During Comps, II

I've done all the hard work -- taking the classes, compiling study guides for the questions.  They should just collect my notes and grade me on those.  They can even have all nine questions, instead of making me answer four.  Doesn't that seem more comprehensive?

St. Joseph of Cupertino, pray for us

Thoughts During Comps Season, I

[I considered an official hiatus (rather than the unofficial one I've been taking) for the next week as I prepare for comprehensive exams.  Instead, I will entertain you with the inside of my head during this time.]

One of my questions requests that I "thoroughly and accurately" discuss a topic.  Does this mean that when a question does not state accuracy as a requirement, it doesn't matter?  Because that would be hugely helpful.