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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.)

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[delfinnium]

Well I'd say that you can try applying to the USA ones later, and really it 's okay to take a year off. A few months off, even. You sound too frazzled to even consider applying for the US grad schools. You can just apply to the overseas ones, and then tell your mother you'll need to spend time to work on applying for the US grad schools because ohgod they have too-tight deadlines.

Uh.

I know exactly what you're going through, except I don't even have the excuse of homework and thesis and everything.

:|

I just haven't sent the query letters to the UK universities. Or Australian universities. *hides*

[bedlamsbard]

Yeah, I had this conversation with my mother last night, where I told her I was going to make the overseas schools my priority, since that was what I really wanted, and if I didn't get into those then I'd either apply for a post-bacc in the U.S., look for schools that take grad students second semester, or just take the year off. And then I felt better about it.

DEADLINES. THEY SNEAK UP ON YOU.