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Which one was the most diffcult?

Which degree was the most difficult?


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poweredbylight

Registered User
Definitely the EA for me. You don't know what to expect, and are overwhelmed by the amount of information being thrown at you. By the end of the initiation (while you're getting all of the smiling faces and handshakes), I felt like I was drunk.
 

dfreybur

Premium Member
For me it was the MM proficiency. Not only is it longer in California it's also optional unless you are elected to office. So I was in the middle of memorizing the JW work for all degrees and the WM work in the first degree when I suddenly jumped back to the proficiency. Oops ...
 

usmcvet

Registered User
The EA lecture was the toughest for me. The Fellow Craft was easier because I'd already learned how the lectures work. We don't have a MM proficiency here in VT but I plan to memorize the MM lecture too. I'm about half way there.
 

Bro. Michael

Registered User
The MM was the most difficult for me, and not even all of it. Actually, the only part I struggled with on any of my degrees was the MM obligation (I did have a really good teacher though).
 

Dow Mathis

Premium Member
I'd have to agree that the EA was the hardest. I never realized until after I was raised that there were "sections" to the EA. For me it was hard because I had to learn how to learn. We're all programmed to reach for the written word, whether it be on paper or screen. The EA taught me how to listen actively and how to learn the cadence of the spoken word. Learning this cadence helped me immeasurably in the FC and MM. It's funny... If I'm not careful, I'll find myself answering a question from a coworker or friend with the same cadence and grammar as that used int he degree work. Sometimes I don't even realize it until I see the look on their faces and realize that I just sounded like a doofus. :biggrin:
 

Sammcd

Premium Member
The E A was the hardest for me. My mentor explained that each of the degrees built on pervious degree. He eased my anxieties before each proficiency by assuring me that I knew material or he wouldn't have recommended that I test and every one in the lodge room was a brother.
 

dfreybur

Premium Member
It's funny... If I'm not careful, I'll find myself answering a question from a coworker or friend with the same cadence and grammar as that used int he degree work. Sometimes I don't even realize it until I see the look on their faces and realize that I just sounded like a doofus. :biggrin:

But it's cool when one of them pulls you aside and asks if you have traveled!
 

Pscyclepath

Premium Member
The proficiency lectures weren't all that hard... It took me a little longer (about 6 weeks) to turn in my MM proficiency, as my lecturer had family problems at the time and wasn't available. It wasn't all that hard to start learning the conferral parts either, save the 7 arts & science in the FC stairwell lecture still give me fits from time to time. You just gotta stay at it ;-)

Tom
 

Brother_Steve

Premium Member
It's funny... If I'm not careful, I'll find myself answering a question from a coworker or friend with the same cadence and grammar as that used int he degree work. Sometimes I don't even realize it until I see the look on their faces and realize that I just sounded like a doofus. :biggrin:
Co-worker: How do you load the program?

---In the way and manner illustrated in the instruction book! :wink:

I found my FC was the hardest to return. I knew it backwards and forwards but I was the most nervous during the FC exam on the account that we were to be raised the same night.
 

fasttito

Registered User
EA for sure due to being a new-bee to all of this at the time...


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brother blaine

Registered User
Qpzil is right I'm working on my MM right now it's kinda hard piecing it together but I do have to say the eA was harder just a whole change of speaking


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Zaden

Registered User
Is "[FONT=verdana, arial, sans-serif]ralitish" a mnemonic? I've been running through mentally and don't see where that would fit? San Antonio Hat Co, and our buddies Sam and Henry I know, but not "[/FONT]ralitish".
 

jmflores

Registered User
My mentor who is teaching me my work, Bro. Ken Rowe PM told me that his father who was also a brother specifically told him that the EA is so long because its meant to test the student's desire to advance, and if the student really wants to do so he would have the willingness to learn the EA work and get it done. We tend to think that is true. As always brothers the earnest student will persevere.
 
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