Comprehensive Exams

Most of you know that our lives have revolved the past few years around Darren working on his Ed.D. He has been studying in PA for the past 3+ summers. This has meant time away as a family and him spending his summer time studying instead of relaxing.

This fall was a culmination of his work when Darren finished taking classes and had to take his "comprehensive exam". This is a one time sit down test. It was somewhat hard for me to fully understand Darren's anxiety because I was confident that he would pass...however Darren knew that last year 1/4 of the students taking this exam did not pass and had to wait and entire year to re-take it. Even Sara got into the studying with Daddy's notecards.


Anyways, huge CONGRATULATIONS are due to Darren, who passed his comprehensive exams, and did "a superb job" as quoted by one of his professors! All his hard work has paid off. Darren now has to complete a take home portion of the comps and then off to conquer the dissertation! No small feat in an of itself.