All I can say is Thank You Jesus!! I passed my Ph.D. qualifying exam on Monday and now I am an official Ph.D. Candidate!! Woohooooo!! : )
So there were three faculty members on my qualifying exam committee, all of whom I had never had a conversation/class with before. When I met them in the room, they seemed to be friendly, so that put me at ease before I started presenting. I must say though that the third committee member was VERY TARDY! I was supposed to start presenting at 1pm, but didn't get to that till about 1:30p!!
My presentation was about 30 min. long and I was too excited about using my newly purchased laser pointer that day, lol! I was also loving the fact that I could advance my powerpoint slides using my macbook remote. Yay for Apple! : )
After my presentation, the "grilling" began. In the beginning, I found the questions to be very simple to handle, but it didn't take too long for them to get harder exponentially,lol! One member of my committee had a background in chemistry and he definitely took it there! I definitely felt like after his questions that I probably needed a refresher course in organic chemistry! Overall, they really were looking to test the limits of my knowledge and I could feel it! When they would ask a question and I knew right offhand that I didn't know the answer, I had to force myself to open my mouth and start thinking out loud! They were really interested in understanding my thinking pattern.
Well once the questioning was through, I was dismissed from the room for about 7 min. When they welcomed me back, this is what went down:
Professor A: Well we are going to send you something formal later but overall we had no problems with your presentation. You did a really good job so you've passed.
Me: I passed???!!
Prof. A: Yes, you've passed.
Me: (With joy gleaming in my eyes...had to restrain my leaping,lol) Thank you! Thank you so much!
All in all, I am so grateful to God for stepping in yet again. I couldn't have done this without Him! That is a FACT!! I'm so glad to finally have this behind me : )
That Ph.D. is inching closer towards me. Yessiiiirrrrr!!
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I just got a little teary eyed reading this entry. I can only imagine how stressful it must have been to present before seasoned academics and wait in limbo for those seven minutes and then have your presentation accepted... If that was a rewarding feeling I don't know how it will be to be accepted my the Lord, to hear those words "Well done good and faithful servant".
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