I Passed Candidacies!!!

[Breaking news, on location in Walker Building]
WOOHOO!!! The meteo faculty had their meeting this morning to discuss the results of the January PhD Candidacy Exams, and Sue informed me afterwards that I passed both halves of it (dynamics and physics)!! I’m now officially a PhD Candidate! I’ve gotta give God a lot of credit, because I don’t think I could’ve gotten through all that and done as well as I apparently did entirely on my own. I’m sooooo relieved, because I really didn’t want to go through all that again in May. I had kinda put everything out of my mind for awhile, until I got Dr Shirer’s email last week letting us know when the faculty meeting was gonna happen, which has made me pretty nervous again for the whole past week. But this’ll definitely make the rest of the day go better, including my half-hour presentation in remote sensing class in just a little bit that I’ve been slaving away at!
In other news, it’s currently snowing like a banshee outside (over 35 dBZ!). Snowflakes as big as feathers, seriously. It’s really cool!
More updates to come later, including about a fifty-hour trivia contest!