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Back in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Redskins, Washington DC. ANd I want to clean the streets and do the laundry and
all of those things that one wants to do to an American city after coming from a tour of European ones.

Like, provide a worthwhile phone service to travellers. The airport pay phones don't work well at all, and are optimized as a system to eat quarters, rather than provide access. All for a company who's management all have the same last name. And don't staff the customer service center very well.

Like, figure out some way of setting up the meeting areas so that they aren't completely blocked when planes are arriving. I couldn't even figure out what was the way out, and when I did, I had to push through crowds of people waiting for others. A series of meeting points? A series of lounges? A big pie shaped area? All have good/bad issues.

BUT ANYWAY, the vacation is winding down. Time to strike into new habits before the old ones completely re-assert. As patsmor sez, put the goals out there.

GOALS: 1. Finish all the promised poetry owed (3 pieces) before Mist's Investiture on November 11.
2. Pull all the pictures off the cameras, into a computer, and into an album, by November 6th. Have the ones going to friends out by November 18th.
3. Thank you notes for the trip out by November 10th.
4. On the 12 week program starting Nov. 1st (yes, Beth, again!)
5. Take the GRE before December.
6. Review 10 programs before December.
7. Spreadsheet the finances by Nov. 12th.
8. Work out every day;
9. Get out of the house by 9 every day. Getting out into the yard works.


Ok, enough for now.
Longer term goals later.

Date: 2004-10-25 08:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] selkiediver.livejournal.com
Welcome back to the US! Good luck with your goals. I think you will have an easy time with the GRE, just grab one of those books (I used the Princeton Review book) and spend some time learning how the test works and how to beat it. Frankly, I think you could take it cold and do well.

If you are taking the GREs in December, does that mean you are applying for programs this Fall/Winter (to begin study next fall)? If so, we can be application buddies. What do ya say? Want an application buddy?

Re: Would love an application buddy!

Date: 2004-10-25 07:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] selkiediver.livejournal.com
Hot! So, a good thing to do is make an exel spreadsheet with the following info:

Institution. Name of the program. Address. Phone number. Emails. Application deadline date. Required GPA. Required GRE (general). Required GRE (subject). Required letters of recommendation. CV required (y/n). Statement of Intent required. Name of the prof you want to work with.

Date: 2004-10-25 08:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] falzalot.livejournal.com
Welcome back! :->

Date: 2004-10-25 09:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] noressa.livejournal.com
Heya. ^_^ Welcome back. Good luck with your goals!

Date: 2004-10-25 01:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] riolent.livejournal.com
Hey! You're nearly back. Welcome! You're going to visit relatives before home, right?

Yep.

Date: 2004-10-25 07:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] learnteach.livejournal.com
DC and Texas. Home on the weekend.

Date: 2004-10-25 01:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kfitzwarin.livejournal.com
The GREs are, well, a cinch. Especially since they started doing the computer-based adaptive testing - doesn't even take all day. ETS has some sample tests online - I found the hardest thing for me was remembering some of the formulae for things (I don't use the formula for volume of a cone very often, for example, and all my trig & geometry courses were years ago so deriving it on the fly took me more than a minute).

But what you might want to check is whether a representative sample of the programs you're considering actually want the GRE (my current program didn't, for example, which is a bummer - my GRE scores are much better than my undergrad GPA....)

Good luck on the goals, though!!

Date: 2004-10-25 05:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] klwilliams.livejournal.com
Somewhere in the last ten years I discovered I could no longer derive the quadratic equation, as I don't remember how to complete the square. I find that very sad.

I just sing it.

Date: 2004-10-25 07:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] learnteach.livejournal.com
It's quite a nice catch.

Date: 2004-10-26 12:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kfitzwarin.livejournal.com
Yeah, it's sad what slips away from us. (I remember the quadratic formula for some bizarre reason, so I don't end up having to derive it, but it's hard when you don't use things for a while....)
From: [identity profile] patsmor.livejournal.com
And I can no longer be of any assistance at all!!

(Oh, that's not true. I did suggest he look in the back seat of the car for his lost calculator, and it turned out to be the right place.)

Date: 2004-10-25 04:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seshat.livejournal.com
Welcome back!

Re: Thanks!

Date: 2004-10-26 01:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seshat.livejournal.com
Yes please! When are you back on this coast?

Date: 2004-10-25 04:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vew.livejournal.com
welcome home

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