Oral Comps

Excuse me while I bounce off some walls...

I PASSED!

Monday was exactly 4 weeks since my written comps, and I was getting pretty desperate. I have had the hardest time studying for orals because I didn't even know if I'd be taking them yet! And then, voila, Monday evening I got the email that I passed written, and to schedule my orals with my two examiners. Then, all week, I was still mentally blocked on studying, but because I was so stressed that it was finally happening! I finally escaped to the library yesterday to seclude myself for a few hours.

Written comps were based entirely on field of study (bioethics) while oral was to be a mix of field of study and general theology, divided into sections of Church history, dogmatic theology, moral theology, and Sacred Scripture, touching on all of the core classes that we have taken besides our electives. It was so. much. I think all in all I have about 200-250 notecards of the individual topics we were given to study. Yeah.

Today has felt surreal. I didn't have nearly the amount of stress from written, purely due to how surreal it was that it was finally here. I felt like I knew nothing, and had kind of resigned myself to that. My conference call was at 2pm. It was rough, but in spots I wasn't sure on I reasoned through and talked through it.

I still have a final to take online and a paper over a final project to write, but I'm done. I'm graduating, y'all. Is this real life?