Well, the comprehensive exam is over (again). I should have plenty of time to keep up the fycomp blog for the rest of the semester.
I feel that my students have suffered a little bit from my preparing for the comps, despite the fact that graduate assistants are given a lighter load for the semester in which they have to take the test.
On the other had…well on the other hand, maybe they didn’t. A number of the assignments and class periods that I felt were very effective came directly out of my studying Aristotle’s Rhetoric for the comps. So maybe it wasn’t so bad after all.
I almost called in sick today (monday). Yesterday, I just completely crashed from taking the comps on saturday. I have never been in such pain in my life. every muscle in my body hurt. I don’t really know why. I guess my body chemistry was on “high alert” in the week leading up to the test. After the trauma was over, I guess my body shut off the taps on all the good chemicals that were keeping me going. I didn’t actually feel nervous, but I must have been subconsciously. That or I came down with the flu and it was just a coincidence. Whatever.
