And finally, a job!

I received an email at about 4:00 pm yesterday that gave details about a few recitation leader openings for some math and stats classes. If you remember, my recitation leader for Stat 3000 this last spring was Xi, and she basically attended lecture and taught a kind of TA class where she helped us with homework and reviewed lecture material. Well, so I responded to the email at about 8:00 pm, just before Karen and I left the church building to go home from our meetings. And then this morning, maybe around noon, I received an email saying that I'd been hired!

Amazing, right? I definitely didn’t see that coming. Like any normal person, I expected an interview if I was to be considered, but instead I received an email stating that I was hired. Just like that!

The original email explained that they were looking for students who are senior math or stats majors, and I told Dr. Turner (the woman in charge) that I am a transfer student and that I have only 4000 and 5000 level courses left in my major, and I said something about how I hoped my having no concrete student status didn’t disqualify me.

I mentioned to Karen the possibility of being a recitation leader on the way to the church building yesterday evening, and Karen thought it was a great idea. She said that while I’m not a senior, maybe I’d have a chance, and that it doesn’t hurt to apply. So yes, we are very excited.

Even at full speed, I was pressed for time

“Ten minutes.”

“Five minutes.”

“Two minutes.”

Dr. Welbourn announced our remaining time as the four-problem stats exam came to a close. With two minutes remaining, I started into my last problem, and I submitted my completed test four minutes later. That’s right—four minutes. I sloppily went through and put down whatever I could get credit for, going with an answer I had absolutely no time to double check (or even single check). 

Xi, my TA, was standing right there when I turned in my exam. She grabbed it right off the stack (for some reason), turned to my last problem (for some reason), looked it over and said, “Good,” and set it back down on the stack. I have no idea what that meant, or whether my particular intelligence just confuses my TA for some reason, but I got through it and I apparently did my sloppiest problem correctly.