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CPA Exam Score Release Anxiety Is the Best Anxiety

Forgive the tardiness on this, we owed it to you yesterday.

I think it's important for every to remember that the anxiety people have waiting for their scores is half the fun:

The anticipation of knowing your score is almost better than the moment of knowing it. Everyone should revel in that feeling of anticipation, when your destiny, whatever it is, lies in the balance right along with your emotions of wanting desperately to know whether you passed or not. The teeter-totter of nerves and excitement, hope and dread, dominates your experience and it's that contrast that makes it such a unique feeling. Once that's over, you have to get back to life.

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