study withdrawal!
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wilheldp_PE
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dneva
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You are fortunate to have the time to study. I in the other hand do not have the luxury to spend 6 months studying. I have children, wife, mortgages, dogs, birds, tenants anxiously awaiting my return. I am lucky if I get in one solid month. So feel fortunate for having the time to study. Good Luck
Inigo Montoya
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have you studied your Agrippa?
HokieME
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You just have to find the time to study. I got up every morning at 4:00 am to study for 2 hours before walking the dog, making the lunches and going to work. Then I'd walk the dog after work, make dinner, eat and do the dishes before studying for an hour or two before going to bed. Saturdays and Sundays were the big study days for me. Getting up at 6:00 am and studying for a couple of hours before doing things around the house like cleaning, doing laundry. going grocery shopping. It became a second job for me (or third if you count the housewife duties as my second job). I did tell my husband at one point that he was going to be inconvenienced by this and he supported that. I didn't try to inconvenience him too much, though.
As for what I'm filling my time with now, sleep. Getting more than 5 hours a night is a blessing! And finally doing some of the things around the house that have been put off for several months. Thankfully the weather is nice now so I can spend time outside working in the yard. But I find that I get up and look at the table where the books used to be and feel relief. Hopefully I passed and it can stay that way!
You just have to find the time to study. I got up every morning at 4:00 am to study for 2 hours before walking the dog, making the lunches and going to work. Then I'd walk the dog after work, make dinner, eat and do the dishes before studying for an hour or two before going to bed. Saturdays and Sundays were the big study days for me. Getting up at 6:00 am and studying for a couple of hours before doing things around the house like cleaning, doing laundry. going grocery shopping. It became a second job for me (or third if you count the housewife duties as my second job). I did tell my husband at one point that he was going to be inconvenienced by this and he supported that. I didn't try to inconvenience him too much, though.
As for what I'm filling my time with now, sleep. Getting more than 5 hours a night is a blessing! And finally doing some of the things around the house that have been put off for several months. Thankfully the weather is nice now so I can spend time outside working in the yard. But I find that I get up and look at the table where the books used to be and feel relief. Hopefully I passed and it can stay that way!
As for what I'm filling my time with now, sleep. Getting more than 5 hours a night is a blessing! And finally doing some of the things around the house that have been put off for several months. Thankfully the weather is nice now so I can spend time outside working in the yard. But I find that I get up and look at the table where the books used to be and feel relief. Hopefully I passed and it can stay that way!
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MechGuy
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When I was studying for the FE and PE I had children, wife, mortgages, dogs and tenants... no birds though. Maybe if you get rid of the birds you can find time to study?
I kid! Seriously, there are always ways to find time to study. You just have to make the study time a priority.
MechGuy
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D
Dexman PE
Wait, you guys studied for the exam?
cdcengineer
Sharp as a piece of beach glass
What exam are you folks talkin' about?
Kidding... I feel like I'm only working part time now. It's great, but I haven't broken down the card tables in the basement where the dirty work (studying) was done. I'll wait a bit. Not sure if I'll wait till after results or not. I don't like going down there though. It's funny - the comment about feeling like you're wasting time. I felt the same way until I filled time with random posts here....
Kidding... I feel like I'm only working part time now. It's great, but I haven't broken down the card tables in the basement where the dirty work (studying) was done. I'll wait a bit. Not sure if I'll wait till after results or not. I don't like going down there though. It's funny - the comment about feeling like you're wasting time. I felt the same way until I filled time with random posts here....
MechGuy
Well-known member
giggle giggle, yes, I still feel I am "wasting time" - its been a week.
After chugging many many many scotches, beer, and wine since the 16th; I think I have reached the "Second stage" of the "exam after effects". tee hee. The last time I felt this way was way tooo long ago (in HS, after my first break up). giggle giggle (and you can see the remains of beer from last night)
and I just realized - its funny, mine was a card/poker room too, before I changed it into the "dirty work" room. I pass by that room every day - have not had the "guts"? to go in and close the blinds and get "rid of the books/remains" of the horrific months... yawn
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Is it bad that ALL of my books and reference material for the test are still sitting in the bags I carried them in and they havn't moved from behind the door of my office since the Monday after the exam?? So far I've only pulled out the pencil, calculator, and straight edge..... Other than that it can sit there and collect dust.
I think is till have a beer can left in one of them....
I think is till have a beer can left in one of them....
My references sat in the crates that I took them to the test in for weeks, maybe months. I don't think I moved them until well after results came out.
snickerd3
Taking suggestions
same here, well actually I think there is still a crate of books in the office closet that never found their way back to the shelves, and that was over 3 yrs ago and a house move.
