- Graduating summa cum laude with departmental honors in philosophy
- Maintaining over a 4.0 GPA through community college and university
- Being nominated to Phi Beta Kappa
- Getting all As or A+s in my psychology coursework
- Getting all As or A+s (aside from two A-s) in my philosophy coursework
- Being accepted into the honors program in the philosophy department
- Choosing to write my honors thesis on Heidegger, without much prior study of him and knowing he was one of the most difficult philosophers
- Getting a distinguished Heidegger scholar to be my advisor for my honors thesis
- Writing my honors thesis in two days
- Having my advisor say my thesis was excellent and even if I bombed my defense they would still pass me
- Having my second reader say my thesis was one of the best (or the best) he's read in a while
- Finishing psychology research writing, a difficult required class for the major, with over a 99%
- Being nominated by my psychology research writing instructor to be a peer tutor
- Becoming the coordinator of the research writing peer tutoring program in the psychology department and receiving an A+ from my supervisor for my performance rather than the usual A students in the program receive
- Getting an A in Hegel and Heidegger authors courses
jan 8 2020 ∞
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