Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Pro-fessionals?

Last Friday, Garrett and I took our Professional Engineer Exam, hoping to become licensed in the State of Colorado. The test had both a morning and afternoon session with 40 questions each. We got 4 hours for each portion, however, we were there for probably 10 hours, including a 1 hour lunch and tacking on an extra 15 minutes before and after each session to go over instructions and for the proctors to collect the exams afterwards.

We've been studying for the last month or so, probably a total of 4 hours per weekend, since whenever I said I was studying, I really was distracted by every other thing I could find, including cleaning the house - hey, at least its spotless now! I probably could have studied more, but its hard to do when you're out of practice.

Overall, I feel pretty good about the test, however, I'm not totally positive I passed. Its just too hard to tell, and some of the problems seemed too easy to be true. I could've been tricked or I could've made simple mistakes that I shouldn't have since I'm not so into the taking tests thing lately - I came to the realization that 5 years actually has gone by since I graduated college! Doesn't seem like that long ago :) I guess I am right on with my '5-year' plan, at least according to the infamous interview question...

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