92

The week before an accounting test is filled with accounting study groups, reading over notes, working out problems, carrying a giant textbook around campus, and stressing.

Really...the textbook is HUGE.  

When the day of the test arrives, I've usually reached the point where I feel I cannot be any more prepared.  Yes, I might have all day to continue studying, as the tests are taken at 4:30 p.m. (which is awful, by the way), but I feel like if I don't know it by the day of the test, I'm probably not going to know it by the test.

So come last Thursday, I was done studying for my accounting test.  And I was scared.  The test covered pensions, leases, errors, and changes in accounting principal.  There were so many slight details that change they way a problem is worked and how things are classified.  I was so overwhelmed, and thought for sure all of these things would catch me on the test.

I sped through the test.  I'm not one to carefully go back over the test and look for mistakes, or try to figure out how to do problems.  If I don't know how to do it the first time, my assumption is I'm probably not going to have an accounting epiphany halfway through the test.  I was the first one finished (yes!), and left not sure what to think of the test.  I was thinking I'd be lucky and happy to get an 80.

Winning.  At finishing first, not accounting. 

So, when I got my test score, I was stunned.  A 92??  The first thought that crossed my mind was...maybe he typed in the wrong score.  My next thought was...geez, he must have had to curve this test pretty hard.  There was no way I did that well on the test.  I mean, I know I didn't fail it, but I didn't think I got in the 90s...

Minus the +, add the -.  But hey, it's an A.

I was  talking to my friend Jonny, and he did even better than that.  We were both so shocked that we still haven't really started to rejoice in how great we did.

Now...I'm sitting in accounting class writing this blog post with my test in front of me.  Turns out...

We are just that good at accounting.

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