Legally Blind Observations

And finally be able to send out my application to John Jay. 

And start worrying. 

Yet I still have this very strong suspicion that, between my social psych group project/presentation, scrambling to find a third recommendation-writer for grad school, and my seminar presentation on forensic psychology, I’ll spend a good chunk of the next two days doing school shit.

This is most displeasing. 

Tonight, I prepare.

Tomorrow, I conquer.

Fred Duran vs. the GRE with the future of the former on the line. 

Bring it, bitch.

sonic-hip-attack:

There’s a girl in my cohort who is… well.

Her facebook religious status is “Bondservant to Christ.” Her favorite books and quotes are basically all Nicholas Sparks and Jesus. All of that is probably enough to keep me from being FRIENDS with her (also her devotion to a certain red-state college…

I can see it being a bit annoying, especially if you don’t believe in it. But in my eyes, it’s the same as if the quote was something else that you didn’t particularly like, like lyrics to a shitty song — annoying, but not something to get too upset about. Plenty of people do plenty of annoying things, but that’s just people being people, you know? And even if you do bring it up to her, if she’s a “bondservant to Christ” (which sounds scary as shit), I doubt she’ll oblige just because you asked her to, and in fact may put more Bible verses, or put them in bright purple curly text with smiley faces at the end.

At least that’s how I see it. I can see why you’d be annoyed by it, and I agree it IS a little unprofessional — personally, I try to keep my religious and political beliefs out of my job and schoolwork, unless the job or class calls for it specifically to be addressed and shared — but it seems to be one of those things that most likely won’t change. 

I killed it for the first two parts (analogies and sentence completion), but got smacked on the math. Granted, I didn’t bother to get up and get paper to try to work out the stuff and ended up trying to do it in my head, but still. I did the worst on the math on my SAT and it seems that this is gonna hold true for my GRE. Gotta get on my math grind.

In all honesty, I’m terrified for the GRE. On the one hand, I NEVER worry about tests. EVER. But they’re changing it in August — BUT they’re making it easier (or so it seems to me), which kind of makes me wary. It’s just that I owe so much fucking money so I need to get a good score and get money for graduate school or I (and my folks, who are retiring soon) are royally, ROYALLY fucked.

Whew.

So this whole exercise may or may not be for nothing when I actually take it.

Whatevs. When I hear about the changes I’ll do what I have to do to prepare. Boom.

Which isn’t that good, but it’s a damn sight better than 20 points below the minimum. It’s good to know that I could take the test cold and get at least better than the minimum. By the time I go to take it I should be able to get a couple hundred points over.

Graduate school, you gon’ be mine!

No idea how I’ll pay for you though. We’ll jump off that bridge when we come to it.

Fuck the GRE. It’s like the SAT — a big bad monster standing between me and graduate school. Except I took the SAT without any of those prep bullshit classes and got a 1940 out of 2400.

Let’s dance, GRE.