He's a little crazy for taking the qualifier after just one year in the program. (Especially since his Master's was in management, not hard core engineering.) Except that it's impossible to describe someone so diligent, methodical, and hardworking as crazy.
If you happen to read this post before 5:00 pm Central Time, Greg is still up to eyeballs in Markov chains, so send some good karma his way.
P.S. The last time Greg spent a year studying for a big test--giving up months and months of Saturdays and evenings--was for the Professional Engineer exam. We lived in Turkey at the time, and he took the exam at the naval base in Naples. While he was sweating it out with the Darcy-Weisbach equation, I jumped in our rental car and took David and myself down the road to Pompeii.
This time I jumped in the car and took David, Mary, and myself to.....the grocery store! (We're having everyone who's taking the test today over tomorrow for a little post-exam thank-goodness-that's-over-with get-together.) Pompeii versus small town grocery store. Fluid dynamcis versus decision analysis. My, how times have changed.
