Thursday, May 13, 2010

Super Genius

I took the National Registry and nailed it! I am now officially an EMT! So if this whole Army thing falls through I have yet another vocational certification to fall back on.

It was one of those computer smart tests that tailors itself to you and how well you're doing. It has easy, medium, and hard questions, and it gradually gives you harder questions as you select correct answers. If you get an answer wrong, it'll give you a question from the next lowest difficulty level. Therefore, if you finish the test quickly, it means you either nailed it or got way too many questions wrong right off the bat and it terminates you out of mercy. The trouble is (for most people) that it doesn't tell you which pile it threw you in, you just get the "TEST OVER" screen. I of course wasn't worried when I finished the test after answering just 70 questions in 40 minutes; some of my peers were there for nearly the entire two-hour time allotment and answered close to 200 questions. We can't all be intellectual giants, I suppose. Kidding.

So that's that. EMT side is done! AND I exceeded the academic standards to the point where, on my end of course counseling, my instructor recommended me for honor grad status. Holla! Now we just have to see if my stupid profile is going to prevent me from going to the Whiskey side on time with the rest of my company. Think anti-inflammatory thoughts for me, please? As cool as it is to cane around like Dr. House, it's not actually cool at all.

Edit: And a special message from Natalie Dee to my peers that didn't pass today:

nataliedee.com
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