Harry P

Here I am a mere three days before my GRE exam and I'm spending an inordinate amount of time thinking about the upcoming Harry Potter book (and the movie, but mostly the book) Is it a little insane how excited I am for this?

I ended up pre-ordering my book from the Harvard Coop in Harvard Square with the intention of going to their midnight party (I know, super nerdy, i know, but it's the last chance I'd have to do it right?) but I had no clue that the midnight party is actually going to be a huge event throughout Harvard Square. Before I was mostly anticipating me and a bunch of 12 year olds (which it still probably will be) standing in line with me listening to my iPod (to avoid any bastards who decide to turn to the last chapter and blurt out what happens), but I'm actually kind of excited by this party thing now. The whole event smacks of geekiness, splendidly and shamelessly. The kind of sad part is that almost all my friends at work seem to show a complete disinterest in Harry Potter, which sucks. One co-worker did but he left the lab earlier this month, and then another friend who is still here is taking the GREs on the 21st. So I could be alone in attending this event, alas.

I am a little concerned that the wristbands to line up at the Coop start being given out to people with preorders at 5 pm and I'm sure I can't make it there after work til 6 pm at the earliest. Think of all those slimy children who don't have school any more who will get there way before I can; I don't wanna have to wait forever after midnight to actually get my book. Ack!

Alright, I'm stopping this here. I'm writing this at 1 am on Friday night/Sat morning. Coolest kid in school.

I'd like to request a do-over

So, here I was thinking that I'd be over and done with the GREs at this point. But no, instead I completely panic on the math section (math, i never had trouble with math!) and cancel my scores and end up being so distraught and stressed out by the entire incident that I go home and just cry. I blame the ridiculous computerized test. I have such issues pacing myself when I can't skip around on questions, when there's a constant nagging in the back of my head that a mistake made in the first few questions could completely sabotage my scores. I hate you ETS and your stupid computer adaptive testing crap. Just let me take it on paper. I'm not sure I ever felt more stupid in my life than after I cancelled those scores. Ugh.

Anyway, I'm home in NY for the weekend, which I'm glad about. Although the drive is annoying, being in Boston was driving me crazy and I wanted to a little change of scenery after my post-GRE hysteria. It's always good to see old friends and know that there is some consistency in my life. Plus I still sleep a million times better on my bed here than anywhere else.

Already rescheduled the GREs for July 2nd. Hopefully things will go better this time around.

Anybody out there?

Hello my friends, or whoever is left, it's been a while.

I've been very bad about keeping this up. Although this is usually for lack of interesting news to report, my last month of non-updates is brought to you by: my state of constant panic for the GREs (this Saturday)

As such, this is not going to be much of an update, except to say the following:

• I am still alive, although nearly crazy.
  
• The ETS is the devil.
  
• My past month has looked like this: study study study, go to San Francisco to see my sister (I expect this will be described in greater detail in a post TBA), study study, go to various goodbye functions to people leaving the lab, panic, study

I hope this has been informative. I'll start blogging semi-regularly soon. Don't give up on me yet.