this is a test; it is only a test

A little over a year ago I wrote about possibly taking the Fundementals of Survey exam. I intended on taking it last Spring, but that didn't work out (I was 3 credit hours short of the requirement). So last month I sent in my application and now I'm waiting to find out if I've been accepted to sit for the exam in April. Tomorrow I start a course that will prepare me for the exam.

To say I'm a little stressed about the whole thing is putting it mildly. I try not to worry about it, but I know it's going to take a lot of work, a lot of studying, a lot of my brain. The studying I enjoy. (I know, I'm weird like that!) But the exam? Well, I have a tendency to freeze during tests and the fact that this will be an 8-hour exam scares the shtuffin' out of me!

So I will study. I will work hard. I will do my best. I will do all those things that you tell yourself you will do in order to pass a test. And then . . . and then my brain will explode! Won't that be pretty?!