I just read my D'land comments from Aug 30-- D'land doesn't tip you off when you get comments so you have to go look every time to see if anyone said anything, and I never think to do that. Why would I keep going back to my own diary? I know what I said. Anyway, I had a particularly heartening comment from Celynen. She says "If [the desired grad ( Read more... )

I took a practice version of the GRE CAT tonight on my poor old computer. It has a program installed that wants to update from online... every minute or two. No kidding, I actually checked the clock. I click "No, never" and it comes back again, interrupting the test every minute or two. Believe me, I said some really rude things while I was ( Read more... )

I'm feeling more sanguine about the math stuff. Can you tell I'm studying words in my spare time, too? Until recently, I thought "sanguine" was negative-- like saturnine, I suppose. Then I wondered if it had the same root as "exsanguinate," so I looked it up. Yep, it does. Turns out sanguine used to mean "having blood as the dominant humour." ( Read more... )

I just had a very productive session of test practice. I dunno whether this was just an easier test or whether I'm starting to catch on to this... we'll go with the catching on theory right now, I think. Heh. Anyway, I had only been getting about 2/3 of the way through and this time I got 27 of 30 done. And I got a noticeably higher percentage ( Read more... )

I finally managed to get the tests from both study guides installed on my decripit PC. I didn't realize how decripit it was till I tried to install these things. It took forever ( Read more... )

Oh, well, maybe not TOTAL gloom and despair, what with the news from yesterday about the money situation. But, damn... I've registered to take the GRE on Sept 9 in Durham. That's a week and a half away. I am reviewing math (again) and becoming more unhappy by the moment. Yesterday I flat out panicked and every time I looked at anything that had a ( Read more... )

Amy noted that the practice tests on the CDs that came with the GRE study guides are a really good resource and that I should take them, "even if you have to go to someone else's house to take them, because they're for Windows." Sigh. I hadn't gotten that far yet-- didn't want to take any until I've at least finished reviewing one of the books. (I ( Read more... )

I would be embarrassed to ever show my face again if I sank so low as to whine, "Math is hard!" but I swear to god, my poor brain is spinning around like the kid's head in The Excorsist. Except faster. I've had a really productive evening but when I got to fractions that have radicals in both parts, I lost it. I had to resort to reviewing language ( Read more... )

So last night I studied till I couldn't comprehend what I was looking at, then read my msytery for a while, then back to studying. I've got to find out.... can you use a calculator when you take the GRE? (That's a real question, BTW-- if you know the answer please tell me in a comment.) If not, I need to be doing multiplication flash cards or ( Read more... )