Well, my UIUC application is more or less complete. I feel pretty good about my personal statement, but I will give it a final review tomorrow morning. I am still very nervous about:
*sigh*. At some point you just have to let go.
Up early enough, spent pretty much all day working on my personal statements. UIUC statement is coming along nicely… I think it’s good enough to send to Niamh. w00t.
Woke up some time after ten this morning, reinforcing what I already knew: that I am bad, very bad at waking myself up. Spent the morning intending on working on my personal statement and doing casual reading instead. Spent the afternoon hauling leaves. As a result, the lawn looks great. An hour and a half post dinner, I still haven’t gotten going on my personal statement.
I have put a wiki on this site, for ideas and other bits of information. It’s a good place to keep all the stuff I have to keep track for applying to graduate school. Right now I am reading some papers by Kathryn Bock to help tie my personal statement for Illnois to tie in to the faculty a bit better.
So, I took the GRE a second time this morning, and got a perfect score on the quantitative. That’s fun. Of course, I actually did worse on the verbal than the first time, which is a little depressing. But the verbal is really just a big vocabulary test. Any graduate school that rejects me on that basis isn’t a graduate school I’d want to attend anyway.
Working on the final list of programs to apply to…