WOOOOHOOOO I PASSED!!!

Yeah!!! I passed, finally. It was a big relief, although a little surprised to find out that we now have our thesis proposals due by mid-September, rather than 6-12 months as seems to have been done in the past. Hopefully that's still totally doable given that I planned to be gone virtually all of August. I'll meet with Kerry next week to discuss, but nonetheless finally finally I am officially a PhD candidate. Hooray :)