Next Wednesday and Thursday, I have my first official grad school visit and interview, at Mary Baldwin College in Virginia, for the Masters of Letters in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in Performance. That’s a mouthful. Step one of interview prep: remember the program name. I’ve done interviews before, and I’m not bad at them, butContinue reading “Why Me? Interview #1”
Category Archives: Gap Year
T-minus How Should I Know?
It’s January. Happy New Year. Month of writing-the-wrong-year-on-checks-and-other-dated-items-like-tax-forms-but-we-don’t-think-about-those. Etc. AND…I can no longer pretend that the applications I mailed in November have no impact on my future plans. Drat. I should start hearing back from graduate schools somewhere between the end of January and the middle of April, if last year is any indication. So,Continue reading “T-minus How Should I Know?”
…and they arrived!
With one day to spare on the 4-6 weeks deadline, my GRE subject test scores FINALLY arrived yesterday. Chicken that I am, I put off opening the envelope as long as I possibly could. But… The results were good! (better, in fact, than I had hoped.) It may not mean much in terms of gettingContinue reading “…and they arrived!”
Zilch.
No scores today.
Ixnay.
No test scores today.
Nada
No test scores today.
Grumble, grumble…ETS
Sometimes life is cruel. I took the GRE subject test Literature in English four weeks and 2 days ago. The test results were scheduled to arrive 4-6 weeks after the test date. So…as of this past Saturday, my eyes are glued to the mailbox. Today, an envelope arrives, addressed to me and bearing the returnContinue reading “Grumble, grumble…ETS”
GRE Literature in English
It’s over. Now if only I didn’t have to wait 4-6 weeks to find out my score. I’ve already calculated all the probabilities, and I hate waiting. Why didn’t I read more postmodern philosophers and dramatists? Oh yes – I remember why.
Greater Expectations
Only one week stands between me and the GRE subject test in Literature in English, which I have been dreading for the past two months. Unlike the creator of the study site I have been using (Vade Mecum), I did not study for fifteen hours a week for five months. Two months will have toContinue reading “Greater Expectations”
What could be more personal?
The personal statement. The sworn enemy of college and grad school applicants. Personal statement, I will face you, and you will lose. Personally.… It’s funny how surreal a life decision seems until you put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) to begin to make it real. I have been talking about graduate school forContinue reading “What could be more personal?”
Snark on the Side 