For better or worse, I'm done with qualifiers. I hate micro for missing one question so hard I had to retake it, so close yet so far. I hate my department for starting classes two days after the second attempt, and I hate my liver for not being able to process more liquor in the intermittent 48 hours. Full speed onto becoming a second year slacker in my department, or a masters student scrub, either way no more qualifiers and my health can start improving again!

I guess discuss how much qualifying exams suck, and why unnamed professors in your schools are sadists for putting students through this schadenfreude.

For any passerby's not aware of this masochism: Qualifying exams are a series of exams that many graduate programs force students to take in their first two years of study. In economics this is typically done at the end of your first year and subject matters cover your core classes (microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics, though my department only had the first two). You tend to get two attempts to pass both tests, and failing any one of them your second time removes you from PhD candidate-hood.