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Aww, you’re so sweet!!! It’ll be awhile before I can add “trade”, so count me in until then.Basically everything that @shoechick said! What an exciting time for you!
On the selfish side , I hope you aren't considered a trade member too soon as we plebs will totally miss your contributions to threads on specific stones, etc.
I’m taking everything for the graduate gemologist, starting with diamond essentials first.Wow! Congratulations! Which course are you taking?
Thanks, y’all! It’s so awesome to feel the support.
Aww, you’re so sweet!!! It’ll be awhile before I can add “trade”, so count me in until then.
I’m taking everything for the graduate gemologist, starting with diamond essentials first.
*gulp* Okay, I wasn’t nervous before, but now I’m a wee bit. I don’t know anything about CS but I guess I will just have to work extra hard during that part in hopes I can pass.Best wishes for your GG. As a PSer you should breeze through the Diamond Essentials class. The fun begins when the GIA sends you diamonds to plot and grade.
The Gem ID class is pretty intense. You practice using gemological instruments e.g. refractometer, dicroscope, etc. to identify unknown gems. The final is an open book 20-stone test, misidentify one and you fail.
@Wink and I have talked about this and he knew students who failed.
Have fun.
*gulp* Okay, I wasn’t nervous before, but now I’m a wee bit. I don’t know anything about CS but I guess I will just have to work extra hard during that part in hopes I can pass.
Some of you may recall me posting (here) about being laid off last week. Well, after crunching numbers and talking it over with the hubs, I just went ahead and enrolled in the first course through GIA. I'm about to get schooled on all things shiny!