Are there Cliffs Notes for the GRE?

Posting is a little thin this week, I apologize. I’ve been wrapped up in studying for the GRE, and preparing my brain to take a standardized test for the first time in 7 years. You lose a lot of brain power in 7 years – I should know…I’ve spent the better part of these past 7 years drunk. Only kidding…..maybe.

I have my sights set on a degree in Psychology with an emphasis on child psychology. I have been thinking about it for a little over a year but I didn’t start looking into the application process until last fall. By that time I realized that pursuing this was really what I wanted to do the application deadlines had passed and I still hadn’t taken my GRE. Or taken my GRE again is more accurate. This isn’t my first rodeo! I’ve been in this place before. But at that time, I was truly only getting my masters so that I didn’t have to grow up and start paying my own bills. Terrible isn’t it?!?!?

This is as good a time as any to make a change in my life. Only problem is I’M SCARED! I have all these lingering questions in my mind about paying for school, working while I am in school, where I’ll live, what happens if I can’t get a job out of school, will I have to live in my parents basement if I fail at this? But I’m pushing those questions aside for now and focusing on taking this test. I’m also a little stressed out about what to expect, things have changed since I last took the test in 2002, it’s computerized now. No more scan tron sheets! Which makes me a little sad because I used to focus on completely covering those bubbles in dark lead. It was cathartic.

If you are in the North Seattle area on Friday night and you hear screaming, it’s probably just me trying to use some form of logic to chose between a) b) c) or d).