ETS: Enraging and Tormenting Students

Not that I'm at all annoyed. Apparently, my first and last names were switched on my physics GREs, so the score reports that were sent to be on time for the 12/12 and 12/15 application deadlines had the wrong name and/or didn't have my general scores. I found this out today. Great! Fortunately, after explaining the problem, faxing several copies of my license (at $2 each at the UPS store), and calling ETS three times they fixed it. Unfortunately, it took 5 hours and still leaves me two weeks behind the deadlines for the two schools I'm least likely to get into.

Now I think I need to come up with a better plan for securing health insurance for next year. Preferably something I can apply for without having to rely on the competence of my fellow human beings. :-(

7 down, 1 to go

Don't I feel old. I took my last finals of the semester today and realized that they were the last undergrad physics finals I will ever take. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this, but I don't think "unhappy" is the correct word. The first question on my thermo final was something like "Sketch the tomb of Boltzmann, including the historically significant inscription." It was certainly the last thing I had to laugh about for the duration of the exam. Oh well.

I may or may not post again before January. I kind of have a few pesky grad school apps lying around, which, as they say, aren't going to finish themselves. So, happy holidays!

In which the protagonist fearlessly conquers her writer's block

... and writes her statement of purpose.

Technically, I'm on the fourth (or probably, fifth) statement of purpose I've written. The first bunch were all six sentences long and ended when I realized that I didn't have anything to say. I still don't have anything to say - but I managed to expand not saying it into almost a page. And, more impressive, I made a point. Alas, I should have been an English major.