Kinda silly, but important to me!

[LongRoad]

Sheesh, and now I sound like some sort of fragile flower. That's NOT how I meant to come across, and that's not who I am. When wanting to reply to your post, I wanted to incorporate a quote I'd seen years ago about things before us seem like mountains, but, once accomplished, they seem like molehills. (The quote that I couldn't find was MUCH more eloquent, I can tell you.)

That was really the point I was trying to make. For many of us, getting this degree has been a hard slog. Maybe, when (if?) accomplished, I'll be saying, "Why did I put it off for so long? Easy as pie." Folks here often write "YMMV" when discussing difficulty of courses, tests, etc. And I think, within ourselves, our mileage may vary. Before the degree, courses seem long, studying seems tough, exam questions seem obtuse. Then? You get the piece of paper, and, like I was told in the Army, "Pain has no memory." It becomes easy to minimize an important accomplishment.

And BRAG. For myself, that's one of the hardest things to do. Don't do humble. Don't minimize. BRAG. You're achieving something that lots of other folks will never accomplish. If you can't beat your chest now, when can you?