OK, I know this question can be pretty annoying, but I'd appreciate your help, a lot. Mainly because I'm on the waiting game and terribly nervous ( Read more... )

 So I'm taking the GRE (the "old" one) on friday, and I'm starting to freak out. I've been reviewing my math since the end of the semester and I have the sinking feeling that it's gotten as much "up to snuff" as it's going to. I really wish I'd been able to take the new test, and have more time to study/review, but with some of the programs I've ( Read more... )

hello everyone.

i am currently studying to take the gre before they change the format in august.  this is my first time studying and taking it and i am using the kaplan gre premier 2011 book to study.  i got to the analogy section and realized i am really bad at those! partly because i don't know some of the words in the examples given(which i am ( Read more... )

I'm currently pursuing a Masters in Comparative Lit & Cultural Studies and planning to apply to phd. programs in the same area (well, in Literature, English, Lit Theory and Cultural Studies). I've been advised by a couple of people to write to the professors at the schools in which I'm interested ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, I had a job I loved... a nice apartment...furniture...I took regular scuba diving vacations...my bank account had money in it...I went to nightclubs, took Ecstasy and danced on tables til dawn with glamorous people...and I gave it up to live with 5 roommates, take out $25,000 in loans, and slave for egocentric asshole professors. ( Read more... )

I happened to look over an SoP that I sent in last month and noticed some typos........but not real typos; let me explain ( Read more... )

Okay, so, SoP word limits: how hard a limit are we generally talking here? If I can't seem to get down under it, if I'm twenty or thirty words over, how big a deal is that? This is probably a silly question but I'm freaking out and I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me to calm down.

Hi everyone. I wanted to follow up on my post and some of the reactions, and also some of the other interactions I've seen on this community ( Read more... )

Can we all post anxiety-alleviating stories of "Things I Screwed Up and/or Freaked Out About That Ultimately Didn't Matter in the Slightest"?

I'll start:

(1) I applied to the wrong department at one of my schools. I didn't realize this until they emailed me (well after the deadline) asking where my transcripts and recommendations were, and I ( Read more... )

Thank you, kind professor for agreeing to write me a recommendation. Thank you for failing to open ANY of my emails reminding of you an upcoming deadline, and thank you again for letting said deadline pass for the uni I REALLY wanted to go to. And by the way, the uni that specifically states IF ALL YOUR SHIT ISN'T IN ON TIME = AUTOMATIC REJECTION. ( Read more... )