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[bedlamsbard]

The good news is that my GRE scores FINALLY FREAKING ARRIVED. (Remember: I took them at the end of August. Ugh, ugh, ugh -- they changed the test and the scoring system, which is why it took so long, I guess.) The bad news is that I did not do quite as well as I was hoping for -- I did worse than my dad did when he took them twenty years ago. On the other hand, I like to think that it's harder now than it was back in the day. The good news is that I still did pretty good, at least if you don't look at my Quantitative Reasoning scores. My Analytical Writing scores are in the 96th percentile, anyway.

...I guess I should get around to applying to graduate school. Wow, if only I knew what I wanted to study. (Hint: I...kind of don't. And I'm back to feeling really freaking unqualified.)

Comments

[highlyeccentric]

Take a year off. Do something else. Go abroad for fun and profit. Do what you absolutely -have- to do right now (class, thesis) and do the rest another time. Grad school will still be there in 2012!

[bedlamsbard]

I just...have no idea what I'd do, that's the thing. I'm thinking I might try a post-bacc instead of going straight into grad, but...and my family is not that keen on me not going straight into grad.

[highlyeccentric]

That sounds like a good idea to me. :)

Have you thought about something like the JET program? Teaching experience is never going to go astray in higher education.

[bedlamsbard]

I think I should probably just admit that I can't put together a graduate school application in three weeks, especially since I don't have recommendations yet. I don't know. This is very tiring. I want one less thing to worry about, you know?

(Okay, and the thing is, I do know what I want to study, sort of. It's just that the overwhelming majority of schools I'm interested in are abroad, and the only reason I'm panicking now is because the ones I haven't looked at are the ones in the U.S. and those are the ones with the deadlines in three weeks. Which are coincidentally the ones my mother wants me to apply to as back-up.)

Well, the thing about doing ESL is that teaching ESL is the one thing I have promised myself that I will never do -- my dad's an ESL teacher.

[highlyeccentric]

Yeah, I think you should admit that, yes. I think you should focus on the overseas applications, it seems like those are the ones you actually want.

[bedlamsbard]

Yes. Heh, I just had this conversation with my mother, and I spent about ten minutes going, "Are you disappointed, Mom? You sound disappointed. Mom, are you all right? Mom, this is my choice. Please don't be disappointed, Mom."