Whew!
July 22nd, 2008 by Larry Bellinger Posted in UncategorizedI took the GRE yesterday and I think I did Ok. I scored in the 97 percentile on the Verbal section by going in cold and relaxed, relying on my extant knowledge. However, I crashed and burned on the math part. It was mostly the stuff you learned in Jr. High. Unfortunately for me, Jr. High is one long unpleasant blur. Talk about being MISERABLE! I was fat, short, wore glasses and if I wasn’t on crutches I was waddling down the hall to the sound of “quack quack quack.”
Jr. High was THE absolute WORST. Gives me sweats to just think about those days.
You would have thought that by now I would have knuckled down and mastered integers, fractions, associations and shit like that. Nope. 35+ years and basic principles of math still turn me into a quivering mass of jelly. Less than 400 on the math sections. Not Good. But! About what i thought it would be. I decided not to review much for the test becasue I just didn’t have enpough lead time to do anything but get depressed. So i took my son’s advice*, said “What the hell!” and told myself to go “git ‘er done!”
So I said to hell with the math section. I’m trying to get into Grad School for Communications ( I need some Academic Cred to back up my Yakking chops!) not Med School or Engineering or even Social Work. Whatever. Now that the GRE has been taken and I have accepted my numbers and had them forwarded to AU, it is time to roll through the rest of the application process and submit the materials by August 1.
I’ll figure out how to pay for 30 credits @$1,200 plus per IF I get accepted into the program. We will see.
One Response to “Whew!”
By rosekawaii on Jul 22, 2008
might i point out that you prolly did better than i EVER will on the GRE math section. and i would like to point out that social work doesn’t even require the GRE because it is so irrelevant to your aptitude and academic ability