Chapter 11: The Completion of My Masters Degree and the End of Me and Mary Kate.

For the rest of that school year I concentrated on my Thesis and spent lots of time in the computer center running my data analysis on the IBM mainframe. In order to get it done on time I spent many a Friday nights and weekends running my data modules to make sure there would be no question about the integrity of my data samples. I followed every theorem of statistical analysis to the letter to make sure there would be no question about the thoroughness of my research. Come May I completed my Thesis, successfully defended it and was awarded my Masters Degree of Science. I graduated with honors.

Beginning the first of April I noticed that Mary Kate was not around as much and when we went out she wasn’t as warm and enthusiastic as she once was. I could tell come May we would be a thing of the past. Though I did wonder what changed between us. One night at the pub after playing Foosball and gathering with our friends to celebrate the end of the semester I walked Mary Kate out to her car. Now was good of a time as any and I would ask her where we stood. “Mary Kate, I see you and I are not as close as we once were. Is there a reason for that? Something I did or say that upset you?” I asked.