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Long month

03 February 2010

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A lot of my schools seem to notify mid to late Feb or even into March. I don't know how I will survive.

I am forcing myself off of the computer. Which is so good for so many reasons.
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I am the awkward middle school girl with braces and frizzy hair

27 January 2010

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Waiting for someone to choose me at the dance.

Anyone care to join me? I am drinking the awful Hawaiian Punch and trying to look like I am having a GREAT time staring at the floor while my heart rate races whenever a boy walks near.

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The overanalyzing grad school applicant

28 December 2009

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I am just chuckling at how much I overthink some of these things. And I am posting it here because I know I am not alone and that is one thing I love about this group.
I have this image of the teacher in Christmas Story as she is grading the themes:
"This applicant put her name in the left corner and not right corner....

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Uh-Oh-hit with the coya syndrome!

22 December 2009

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I am finishing up my apps. I have two left: Oregon and Indiana.
Oregon there is no question about, I am just waiting until after I go down and visit next month to do the paperwork.
I was working on the app for Indy and my heart just isn't in it. I find their application process kind of difficult. I couldn't get it to accept school codes....

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Just when I thought things were okay...

19 December 2009

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Ugh!
I just went to check my status on the Princeton site and there are no GRE scores listed!
Could it just be that they haven't been recorded yet? The print date on the score report I got is 11-25.
There wasn't anyplace on the app to self report, so there are just no scores listed. :(

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Drama!!! (or why it is bad to wait until the last minute)

16 December 2009

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In my defense, the reason I waited until the last minute with these two applications was because I have been perfecting the statements of purpose for weeks and weeks. I have often been told that I am a good writer and that my statement of purpose was great, but I wanted to amp it up to that next level. So I think I cranked out about a hundred...

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AAAAHHHHHH!!!!

15 December 2009

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OK, hello Mr. Last Minute. Always nice to see you.

So, Princeton is due today. I have to send all my unofficial transcripts by download. Easy as pie, right?
Nope. My school does narrative evals. I just went and scanned them all in, and they are 15,000 MB.
Princeton's limit is 500 MB!! oh, no wait! Make that 5 MB!

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Time for a major edit of my writing sample

14 December 2009

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Of course the first two apps are due tomorrow.
I keep reading about folks with writing samples that they are trying to reduce to 25 pages. And I started feeling inadequate.
Two years ago I did a presentation on body image in women and the pro-ana community. They were separate topics within the same paper. I did a body image satisfaction...

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Applications due next week

13 December 2009

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I am polishing my statement and my writing sample. I have worked so hard on my writing sample. I have been at it for months. It is pretty much completely different from when I started. I took it to the writing center director about a month ago. I thought it was almost done and really to tweaking stage. She said it was a really good, solid...

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1st app is sent

01 December 2009

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Guess where? Hint
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=37a9JactHbM

It isn't as exciting as it could be. They have a separate date for the application itself and all the departmental requirements, so I am still working on my statement and have to send that and a financial form. But still, it was exciting to see the Status: Complete...

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