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I’m back on campus for most of the rest of summer. A lot of people have been asking me what I’ve been up to. Well, beginning today, I started studying. For what? The CPA of course. Before I begin work at the end of July, I plan on taking two parts of the CPA exam. I originally planned to take all four parts before I started work but things changed. I didnt want to kill myself before working.

I have my first one on May 22nd and another on July 11th. The one in May is supposed to be the easiest of the four parts. But after my first full day of studying, I realize I have a lot of stuff to go over. None of it is new, everything has been taught or has been seen in the past 5 years of college at one time or another. It’s just a matter of looking it all over and committing it to memory and then applying it. It’s gonna be tough looking at the overwhelming amount of material but I think it can be done. I have about 8 full days to do it; 9 days including today. (I’m told you need about a week of good studying to be ok. But the review book I’m looking at says 11 weeks. Hopefully its the former and not the latter)

After my first day of studying, I realize one thing. First session on campus pretty much sucks. There’s not really anything to do. There’s not really anybody around. And it’s not too fun if you spend most of your days studying. It’s worse when you go to the union and the only people around are loud and noisy fobs. (not that fobs are terrible people….) Suddenly I’m more thankful for the school year and even having people around. Second session can’t come soon enough.

Well, I guess this is just me venting. I can already feel the toll that studying is taking on me. For the rest of my days leading up to the exam, I plan on having an afternoon and evening study session with each being about 3 to 5 hours long. I hope I can do it and not go (too) crazy in the process. Please pray for me if you can. That would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.