The Psychology GRE

Even though it is the middle of the summer, I have this problem in which I can't relax and I need to be doing something productive, anything, something... so I started this new project in which I make a video a day for a year. 365 days of videos is a pretty strong commitment in my mind, and so far I've made it to Day 49. I've been trying to figure out what to do to celebrate my reaching Day 50, which is tomorrow. I think I just figured out what: my return to this blog! So, if you are reading this because my Day 50 video blog sent you here, then welcome. Welcome to another part of my life, which is studying profusely for major standardized tests that have major sayings in my career path.

If you are reading this and you have no idea what I am talking about ("Video blog? What?"), then I would recommend for you to check it out on YouTube. My user name is katinatreesee. Here's a link!:

365 Days of Book Reviews and More

If you are here because of the vlog as well, then it should hardly surprise you that I am doing something like blogging about studying for the GRE, which stands for the Graduate Record Exam and is required by most liberal arts and sciences colleges and universities for admittance, along with GPA scores, recommendations, background experience, and the actual application nonetheless. To catch you up, I started this blog to assist myself and anyone who might be panicking about taking the GRE with studying for the said test. I took the test for the first time in January and got a score of 1400 (Verbal: 680, Quantitative: 720, Analytical Writing: 5), which is pretty good score for what I want to do. If you don't know what I want to do, it's to be a clinical child psychologist.

So, getting back to the intent for this post... I'm back! The time has come for me to begin studying for the Psychology GRE. I thought about it today because I was at the library returning a DVD and decided to do some browsing. I came upon the standardized test materials section and guess what was the first book that I read the title for? Yup... How to Prepare for the GRE: Graduate Record Examination in Psychology. It was like... fate.

Of course I took the book out for loan.

In other news, I've also been hired as a private GRE tutor for a Manhattanite school teacher who is looking to take the test as soon as possible. Pretty sweet. I'll let you know how it goes... I'm supposed to start at the end of July.

Thus begins the journey again... another adventure filled with reading, writing, and statistics. Oh, statistics... how you make me cringe with doubt in myself...

That's another thing, too. I am going to be taking an advanced statistics course this fall. Fifteen minutes ago I literally bought two of the textbooks that I will be utilizing in the course. It's going to be interesting... maybe I'll also write a little about statistics in psychology to help some souls out.

I hope that you all are doing well! If you are going to check out my vlog (video-blog...vlog), I hope that you enjoy it as well.

Cheers,
Katrina