ARE here I come!

I have an NCARB Council Record!!!

After sitting around being ambivalent for 5 years, I've suddenly gotten it into my head that I NEED to get my license. So, I created my record online today and am currently in the process of getting my hours straight for my employment verification. I also need to request a transcript from RPI to prove I actually graduated. Once I send all this stuff in and they approve it all, they officially say I'm eligable to take the exam. However, if I want them to actually send my record to a state registration board so I can sign up for the actual tests, I either have to wait a year, or pay them an extra $570 to do it within a year of my creating my record. The reason for this, I believe, is to encourage people to start the record when they graduate and start working, and gradually submit hours as they're completed, rather than doing it all 5 years down the road and basically making the hours up, like I'm doing. (I have the experience, but do I really know how many hours of Construction Documents I did at Sacco + McKinney vs. at Crisp? No.) But, I am a procrastinator, so this is how I'm doing it. I don't want to pay the extra money, but if I wait a year I'll be taking a totally redesigned version of the Exam and I'm not sure I want to do that either. ::sigh::

Jennifer is also thinking about getting herself moving again, and finishing the exam, so we've decided to study together. She scans her practice books to work on them anyway, so she's going to e-mail the scans to me and we'll work on them at the same time, and she's sending me half her flashcards, so we can ask them to each other at lunch. Should be fun. She has so ridiculously much energy and motivation, it should keep me going :oD

**update** I found binders of review materials, practice tests, and flashcards at my office, so I actually have prep material to contribute to this joint effort.