GRE Tutoring's Over

I said goodbye to my first GRE tutoree (?) this past weekend. The reasons for that is 1.) our schedules don't mesh anymore, 2.) I can't meet everyday during the week, and 3.) she gave up and is going to take a different standardized test instead (this is probably the biggest reason). I'm still waiting to get back my Barron's prep book practice test CD, which I lent to her. I'm supposed to get it in the mail.

Last week I was totally sick, probably because of all of the stress leading up to the Psychology GRE Subject Test on Saturday. Actually, as soon as I was finished with it I felt amazing. Even though I'm still coughing, I've definitely learned the hard way that stress really does exacerbate things.

Finishing that test has also given me a lot more time to just relax, catch up on homework, and pay my bills. Yup... I've got three envelopes right next to me that have payments within them. I just didn't have the mind to pay attention to those kinds of important things while I was studying. That's probably a bad thing. I'm wondering how much I need to reconsider my priorities. Good thing that I didn't miss any deadlines!

Speaking of deadlines, now comes the rest of the application process. Let me just say that I have an Excel sheet that has essentially taken over my life. I am obsessed with this Excel sheet. I put it all together so that I could keep my applications in order. I might talk about how I did it in a future post because it's very detailed. Too detailed.

Alrighty! Time to go read! (Ah... leisure...)

My Bad

Heyyyyy... so I took the Psychology GRE yesterday LOL... Sorry. I know that I didn't really blog about it on here so much. That's probably a good thing (even though I feel a little bad about it - opportunity to document the adventure sort of lost) because I had to get away from this here laptop. Oh, internet, how you consume my time with such vigor!

I studied my little butt off this past two weeks, so much so that I am pretty sure that I can attribute my cold to the stress I was experiencing. I'm not going to lie and say that I didn't cram. I crammed things into me like Augustus Gloop in that fabulous chocolate factory. Speaking of chocolate, it pretty much carried me through this process. Thanks, God! (As I reach for another piece... literally.)

Going into the test I was nervous. It probably didn't help that finding the right building on NYU's confusing campus took me a while. Coming out the exam, though, I felt awesome. Sure, there were questions that I felt uneasy about or knew that I didn't really know too well, but I'm okay with that.

I find out my scores around November 8. EEEEP! (Consumes more chocolate.)

It's at this point that I should go catch up on the homework that I've been putting off for weeks so that I could study... but I'm enjoying my little weekend. It also doesn't help that there is work being done on my building and someone has been pounding around on the roof/sides of the building all the live-long day.

One last thing before I go: I bought "SparkNotes' 101 Psychology: A Complete Course in a Book" go to with my studying for the Psych GRE and it was fantastic. I recommend it because it covers lots of things, but clearly and consisely. There isn't so much noise that I find in textbooks (although textbooks are awesome, sometimes it's just way too much information than I need).

Happy Christopher Columbus Day Weekend!