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A Truly Depressing Representation of What It Looks Like to Study for the CPA Exam

It's pretty much the longest, most painful 400 hours of your life (unless you are a woman and decide to have children some day and spend two days in natural labor, that's definitely more painful than the CPA exam but not by much).

pic via @jackielwiggins

Jeebus, isn't there an app for that? Wouldn't it be a hoot if each and every one of those index cards had written upon it not helpful mnemonics and formulas but FML in big Sharpie letters over and over?

Can you do worse than this frightening stack of awfulness? Spam us on Twitter with your CPA exam pics (studying, not from inside Prometric obvs) so other candidates can commiserate with you over how terrible life is.

 

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