Showing posts with label Spark Notes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spark Notes. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

It's My Birthday!

Today is my 2nd palindrome birthday! Hooray! Yes, I will still be studying for the GRE. The birthday-related activities for today include going out to lunch with my boyfriend and one or two close friends and eating cheeseburgers/quesadillas made by my mom for dinner (I requested this as my birthday dinner, opposed to the usual pasta birthday dinner I like...craving burgers lately!). I already got my big present: this laptop. It's a combination Christmas-birthday-graduation present. And that's just fine with me! It's lovely and I love it.

Other activities planned for today arre studying for the GRE and packing for North Carolina. My family and I are driving down. Driving. It's a 12-hour drive. My dad has decided that we are leaving at 3AM. WHAT?

The reason why I am slightly irritated about leaving at that time shouldn't be because I want to spend the time on the road studying and leaving at 3AM cuts into major study time. It really shouldn't.

Anywho, today my boyfriend I am went to Barnes and Noble and not only did I get a present from him, which was Alton Brown's Good Eats: The Early Years (AMAZING), but I got to peek into Sparknotes' GRE prep book. It's not bad. I like that they inject humor into studying. I'd say that even though the 400-word pullout is helpful, I don't think it's as helpful as the 3,500 Master Word List I have in my lap right now (thanks, Barrons). I'm almost done studying it, too, or at least I'm almost done finishing studying it the first time. I do have to go back over words.

Here's a progress report:
On the Word Lists:
#30: 13/15 (Day 6)
#31: 13/15 (Day 6)
#32: 13/15 (Day 6)
#33: 14/15 (Day 6)
#34: 13/15 (Day 7)
#35: 14/15 (Day 7)
#36: 14/15 (Day 7)
#37: 14/15 (Day 8)
#38: 13/15 (Day 8)
#39: 11/15 (Day 8)
#40: 13/15 (Day 9)
#41: 15/15 (Day 9)
#42: 10/15 (Day 9)
#43: 13/15 (Day 9)
#44: 14/15 (Day 9)
#45: 13/15 (Day 9)
#46: 14/15 (Day 9)

Sentence Completion Exercises:
Exercise B: 14/20
Exercise C: 17/20

Analogy Exercises:
Exercise B: 18/20
Exercise C; 18/20
Exercise D: 17/20
Exercise E: 13/20

Antonym Exercises:
Exercise C: 13/20
Exercise D: 14/20
Exercise E: 13/20

I included all the finished Analogy and Antonym exercises because I can't remember if I mentioned them or not. I get the feeling that I did already, though.