More graduate application dilemas...
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wolven7I have to decide which of my papers to send in, as a writing sample. It can't be more than 4500 words. I have several pieces that display different nuances of my writing... but would sending all three be acceptable?
Tori Amos - [Goodbye Pisces]--- I need help, damn it, and there's not enough time to send, write, have others read... Grarg...
I take the GRE tomorrow, and i'm kind of nervous. Not extremely nervous, but not arrogantly sure of myself, either... Just... nervous. This shit is important, you know? And i know i've done as much as i could have, with the parameters with which i left myself. I'm not belabouring that. What's done is done, and i feel fairly confident. I'm nervous about the little things. Pencils, scrap paper, finding the testing centre, does a pen count as contraband, what if i sneeze wrong, and they kick me out of the testing centre, for conspiracy to cheat on the GRE, via a code of sneezes and coughs? (Tom Waits - [Ice Cream Man]). You know. That kind of shit...
I have so many things to take care of inthe next fifteen days. So many pieces of paper to get to the right people, in time for my deadlines.. It's driving me a little more insane, by the day...
I'm sitting here, when i should be practicing my math. Avoidance behaviours, dontcha know. Trying to get ahold of one of my parents.
My dad told me not to over prepare. My mother told me to just make sure i did everything i possibly could to prepare... I'm trying to make sure that neither of them would see the other's advice as necessarily out of line with his or her own. (Lush - [500 (Shake Baby Shake)]). They seem as if they should be roconcilable, don't they? But then... *sigh* Nerves. I want to not have this to worry about, anymore. I want to be done with this, and fairly confident that i've done well.
I want to be confident about my chances of obtaining a stipended fellowship, in the graduate program at Georgia State University. I would like to think that there were none in the world, more deserving than I... But i've not taken all the steps to ensure that to be true. I've tripped myself up, a lot, and I don't know that i have the time to fix it, now...
Rasputina - [Watch T.V.]--- Stupid temporal realm, and the collective consiousness demanding that time run in a single direction, the most of the time... Stupid personal spirals...
Someone encourage me. Or at least let me perform some kind of violence, be it on myself, or the world.
Just one act, to settle the nerves...
I have to go...
Tori Amos - [Goodbye Pisces]--- I need help, damn it, and there's not enough time to send, write, have others read... Grarg...
I take the GRE tomorrow, and i'm kind of nervous. Not extremely nervous, but not arrogantly sure of myself, either... Just... nervous. This shit is important, you know? And i know i've done as much as i could have, with the parameters with which i left myself. I'm not belabouring that. What's done is done, and i feel fairly confident. I'm nervous about the little things. Pencils, scrap paper, finding the testing centre, does a pen count as contraband, what if i sneeze wrong, and they kick me out of the testing centre, for conspiracy to cheat on the GRE, via a code of sneezes and coughs? (Tom Waits - [Ice Cream Man]). You know. That kind of shit...
I have so many things to take care of inthe next fifteen days. So many pieces of paper to get to the right people, in time for my deadlines.. It's driving me a little more insane, by the day...
I'm sitting here, when i should be practicing my math. Avoidance behaviours, dontcha know. Trying to get ahold of one of my parents.
My dad told me not to over prepare. My mother told me to just make sure i did everything i possibly could to prepare... I'm trying to make sure that neither of them would see the other's advice as necessarily out of line with his or her own. (Lush - [500 (Shake Baby Shake)]). They seem as if they should be roconcilable, don't they? But then... *sigh* Nerves. I want to not have this to worry about, anymore. I want to be done with this, and fairly confident that i've done well.
I want to be confident about my chances of obtaining a stipended fellowship, in the graduate program at Georgia State University. I would like to think that there were none in the world, more deserving than I... But i've not taken all the steps to ensure that to be true. I've tripped myself up, a lot, and I don't know that i have the time to fix it, now...
Rasputina - [Watch T.V.]--- Stupid temporal realm, and the collective consiousness demanding that time run in a single direction, the most of the time... Stupid personal spirals...
Someone encourage me. Or at least let me perform some kind of violence, be it on myself, or the world.
Just one act, to settle the nerves...
I have to go...
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Sir Walter Scott
Date: 2005-03-16 04:42 am (UTC)Re: Sir Walter Scott
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Date: 2005-03-16 05:16 am (UTC)Nellie McKay - [Work Song]
Things to take my mind off it, while clarifying the image Of it. Seeing it better, for what it is...
Thank you.
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Date: 2005-03-16 06:33 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-03-16 04:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Time...
Date: 2005-03-18 05:07 am (UTC)Sincerely,
NightFall
Re: Time...
Re: Time...
Date: 2005-03-18 05:57 am (UTC)Of course, sometimes it's far easier to slow down by speeding up.
Why do I get all esoteric on St. Patrick's day of all days? Even if it is technically the day after?
Oh well.
FUCK.ASS.
NightFall.
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