One down

Well, for better of worse, I just submitted my first written qualifying exam. It's not my most brilliant piece of science writing ever, but it's not the worst either, so I think I'll pass. Some of the questions I answered in a lot more detail, because I already knew quite a bit about it, so it was much easier to come up with relevant publications, others were totally out of my league, and I just fumbled through. Now I'm going to take my first shower for the day (it's almost 6 pm!) and then I'm going to spend what's left of the weekend with my kids. I've shoo-ed them away too many times today. On Monday, I get the next exam.