Seven Days Left ...

... of comprehensive exam hell for me. With one week to go I can honestly say that the act of going through a Ph.D. program is something that no normal sane human being should ever want to subject themselves to. It's like volunteering to jump through a series of flaming hoops, each one more fiery and dangerous than the last. Did I mention that it's all self imposed as well? And that the rewards are minuscule and don't even translate into more financial gain? That if anything, you're losing money because you're not making money during the best money making years of your life?

So what great insights on educational research, learning theories, educational psychology, epistemological and ontological realty, or hierarchical linear modeling did I have today? None, only that the Beethoven opus 133, the so called grosse fugue may possibly be the greatest thing ever written. More tomorrow night.