Conquered!

I spent the morning preparing for both my Feminist Literary Criticism (English) and Emergence of the Modern American Woman (Women's Studies) classes.

Then I eat lunch, come back, and read the email. I already have an A and won't have to submit a final essay for Women's Studies? Whaaat?

I'm totally prepared for that essay now. Today was where I pulled it all together. Nonetheless, this will be two hours saved, and a smaller amount of time saved for the professor who grades it.

What did it? I checked my grades... ah, I've gotten an A on my paper. The first and only paper I've ever had that had no minimum but a clear maximum, 6 pages. I filled those six pages with the substance of marital surname adoption, detailing the advantages and disadvantages of traditional and nontraditional methods (change to husband's, keep maiden name, hyphenation, middle name, change to mother's maiden name, mutual change, blend the names, and so on).

But even then, this is the first time that this has happened when I wasn't expecting it to happen due to exam policies (like in Psychology 110 - the final counts as an exam, and the lowest exam is dropped). It is a pretty sweet feeling.