Thankfully the Library of Congress is a pretty neat place to be. I've spent the last few days preparing for exams in this really cool, limited access book heaven! There's no walking through the stacks in this place; after you make it through airport quality security (I really had to take off my shoes and put them through the x-ray machine today), you've got a few steps before you can actually touch a book from this extensive collection. First, in a separate building, you must secure a top notch library reader id card at the end of a three step process. Once you've been cleared, you can walk through the tunnel to one of two other buildings where the main reading room awaits. Once here, however, you still can't put your fingers on a book until you've completed the request process; either online or in-person, you can fill out a form and pray for your books to actually be on the shelf and not at the desk of another library patron. After about 40-50 minutes, unless you overnight your order, the books can be delivered to you by authorized personnel. It's a pretty fancy ordeal...and a nice change of scenery for attacking the studies.
I've got less than three weeks to get ready to tell these professors everything I know from last year. My thing is, after the academic hazing yall already put me through the first-go-round, if I haven't qualified at this point, I don't know what to tell you. But, it is what it is, and I will be sitting for these grueling exams for five straight days beginning August 8th. Lawd help me!
Until then, I will stay prayed up and knee deep in work. I'll hopefully finish my summer internship on Monday, and begin a year long research position with one of my Professors on Tuesday. Time slows down for nothing!
Until next time, please keep me in your prayers. Before you know it, it will officially be the ribbon cutting for year two. Now only if the whole process could happen this fast!
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