history: I was so happy to get my acceptance letter for grad school. I studied for 7 months to take the GRE exam_comma_ it was stressful. Wow_comma_ you were dedicated_comma_ did you do well on it?
current: I did, and I was accepted to my number 1 program, which meant that I was going to be paid to learn!
next: Congratulations, all the hard work paid off!