Incidents in the life of.....

Tuesday, May 04, 2004

GRE

Today started off pretty good. I talked to my father. We said a prayer before I took the GRE. I got dressed, went to Burger King. Their crossainwhiches are so good. I headed toward Sylvan. I was pretty excited. I sat in the car, ate breakfast, and drank my orange juice. Halfway between a peice of bacon and an egg I realized I did not have my i.d. I told Roz to go ahead. She said she was going to tell the lady in the testing center I was on my way. It was 845. The test started at 9. I was speeding, but then I remembered that last night I had a dream that I got pulled over and went to jail. So I slowed my butt down. I took the test. I did horrible. I was looking at those vocabulary words like wth? I am usually pretty decent with analogies. I couldn't do those either. I didn't know what the hell was going on. I just had to guess. The math was even worse. That's my fault though because I could have at least reviewed for that. I don't even know the formula for perimeter. If there is a formula. I knew the area and what perpendicular meant, but it ended there. I looked at that the same way I looked at the reasoning part. I'm an English major and I actually did better, though neither was good, on the quantitative than the reasoning. I had a 490 and 470, respectively. I think I did ok on the essay. I hope so. I had to reread the second question. When I sat down and thought about it, I had some pretty decent thoughts. I finished typing with five seconds remaining. Well I finished proofing it with five seconds remaining. I had ten minutes left on the first one and made it up off the top of my head. So anyway, I hope I did better on the essay. I need at least a 4.5. It's on a 6 point scale. We shall see relatively soon. Keysha said 960 total is not bad. I think she said a thousand will pretty much get you anywhere. I'll be content for now with the 960, but I am taking it again and enrolling in a prep course. I want to go to an Ivy League. I cannot do with the score I have now. I hope I do better on the Praxis. I just need to pass that. I need the content portion so I think I will be fine. I am pretty decent in my area.
In a few hours, I will be officially finished with school. I have one more final at 6. I am about to go study. It shouldn't be too hard. I really don't care at this point in time. I think I will be in there appx. 30 minutes. I either know it or I don't. However, what I do know is that at about nine o'clock I plan on being very tipsy.

Posted by Nik :: 5/04/2004 :: 0 Comments: