Sunday, November 15, 2009
Aaron passed his Comps!!!!! Yay!!!
Well, most of you already know this, but the past two weeks have been EXTREMELY stressful for Aaron. He had to do comps. They are written and oral tests that the people on his committee give him. The questions can be ANYTHING about his thesis topic. For the first time since Aaron and I have met, he came home a week ago yesterday{Saturday} and said that the written part made him feel like a complete idiot. Needless to say, he had his oral test on Thursday and found out that he had passed it all. So, many of you may be asking "Okay, where does that put him in graduate school?" The answer is instead of being a PHD student, he is now a PHD candidate. And for those about ready to ask how much longer he has? One of my good friends asked him that the other day and he replied that asking him that is like asking a woman how old she is? He TECHNICALLY has 2 more years left with this program here at USU, but that kind of doesn't mean anything!!!!!! He does have most of the people in his lab graduating and moving on next year and I think that's giving him an incentive to hurry and get through so we can move on too!!!!
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That's awesome!! Tell Aaron congrats from us!
Also, he can take his time in school...because I dont want you moving out of state! (selfish, yeah.)
The saturday after he passed his comps, I took a ride to and from SLC with his advisor and one of his committee members. His advisor summed up his performance with one word: "brilliant". His committee member spoke about how much she enjoyed hearing his answers to questions and didn't know where some of the questions were trying to go herself, but Aaron capitalized on the opportunity to talk about how it might relate to interesting aspects of his project. They were both more critical of one of his other committee members than of him.
congrats to you all! Best of luck with the rest of the program:)!
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