April 15th is a very important day in academia ( Read more... )

I don't know what the hell I'm doing. I have no clue how to file for this thing.

I'M DONE WITH MY APPLICATIONS!HOLY SHIT PEOPLE. THIS CALLS FOR SOME KIND OF CELEBRATION OR SOMETHING ( Read more... )

Here we go again. GRE on Saturday. Which I'm actually trying to decide whether or not to take. Some of the PhDs on applyingtograd have advised that I don't waste my time, but if I really feel I can improve, to retake it.

So I am currently starting to study again, and god, I swear, these tests are horrible. I always get this terrible anxiety when I am trying to ( Read more... )

Stanford
How would factors such as your background, work and life experiences, special interests, culture, socioeconomic status, race, or ethnicity contribute to the diversity of the entering class, and hence to the experience of your Stanford classmates? Please describe these factors and their relevance. (700 characters maximum)

BerkeleyPlease ( Read more... )

Did not get as far in studying today as I wanted to. Am only up to Charles Dickens Jane Austen. There's just way too many novel plot summaries. @_@;; I still have a ton of poetry to deal with too. I guess I'll deal with that after I finish out the plot summaries, though I am definitely running down to the wire. Three days left. I wonder if I'll ( Read more... )

This is more for me than anything else, but here's an update. I've ( added a few schools. )

I scored a 730 on a practice test for verbal ( Read more... )

Wow, talk about huge fluctuation of score ( Read more... )

So, for those of you who wonder how PhD students get through school, generally there are three ways you can get funding ( Read more... )