GRE

So I took the GRE tonight!

First, some background: I haaate standardized tests and always have. It's not that I find them difficult or stress out over them, but I do get very bored taking them. Very bored. Which leads to carelessness.

Anyway, I took a practice GRE with no preparation whatsoever, just to figure out what my base is. I got a 560 in verbal and 410 in math. This did not surprise me, because I am terrible at the sort of math that is on the GRE. It's all that practical, useful math that I just can't wrap my brain around. I've never been good at it, as anyone who's been out to dinner with me can tell as I frantically attempt to calculate 15% tip. I can consume a page of text in the blink of an eye, but ask me anything about probability? It just won't happen.

After doing some practice sets over some time, I took another practice GRE and got a 660 in verbal and 610 in math. How delightfully even! I felt pretty well prepared for the real thing.

So, after tonight's test, the results are in:

Verbal: 580
Math: 700?

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What is that you saaaaaaay?

So yes, I can chalk up the verbal score to me getting hungry during that portion of the exam. But I have no explanations for the jump in math. Perhaps my math brain was just getting tired of me talkin smack about it.

Either way, that's one step closer to grad school application, and hopefully I will never have to take a stupid standardized test again!

A Blast from the past...

...courtesy of

I never thought I'd see this again!

Things change!

Lisa! What is happening? You are posting in your livejournal?? What happened to your newsbruiser blog and your feed?

Well, a website redesign is looming on the horizon, and my site journal has just deteriorated into something that is more troublesome than it is worth. Plus, LJ has advanced quite a bit in the past couple of years and added some features I started the newsbruiser journal to get, namely tags and what's what. I am reverting back here.

Originally my plan was to stay off livejournal because I wasted too much time on it, and my site journal did help with that. But then I thought, "Lisa, you play WoW, if you ban yourself from wasting time in one way, you are just going to find a way to waste it in another." So yeah, time for the changing of minds!

So, what better way to kick things off on LJ than with some pictures? Scott was needing a creative outlet, so we stopped by my parents' house and picked up several boxes of legos. Enjoy!


Scott built the portion on the left. You can tell because of its symmetry. I built the tower on the right. You can tell because of its madness.


The structures are up on platforms because the wildlife is quite dangerous! It has land sharks! And horses with guns! WHY DID WE LEND THE EQUINE RACE OUR TECHNOLOGY!!


Other aliens include monkeys and ghosts with swords.

Reminder

Hi all.

This is just a reminder post, as I've noticed quite a few people have friended this journal since last year, but apparently not the RSS feed of my real journal (which is here: ). So, you should take a look at that if you want to read about my life going-ons, but keep this journal friended if you want me to be able to read your super secret postings.

Thanks much, carry on!

Who, me?

Gabbard posted pictures from the TMBG concert, check out the broken floor! We are so hard core. I usually grumble at myself and post apologies for doing memes. However, I do this one all the time on other people's journals, it's high time I started giving out strokes, Reply with a message and I'll tell you something I adore about you. (this is generally followed up by a demand to do the same in your own journal, but I don't like to be pushy)

Man it's so loud in here

TMBG ROCKED HARD CORE! At first, we were worried. Centre, while starting to drag in cool bands for Carnival, still does an absolutely craptacular job of advertising them. So the crowd was rather small. We seated in the orchestra were worried, we did not want the Giants to be sad that there was a small group. So, we all vowed to be the most energetic, enthusiastic crowd possible, sending lots of love and energy. When the band came on, they invited us to come right up to the small area of the pit which was right against the stage and did not have seats, so of course we all rushed up. I was lucky enough to be right against the stage. John looked at mee!! *swoon* (both of them! *double swoon*). Anyway, we rocked hard core. Like HARD core. And then, something happened, something that my Centre friends who were absent from the concert will enjoy... We rocked so hard that... (wait for it) We rocked SO HARD.. (waaait...) We rocked out so hard that we BROKE THE PIT. That's right! All our bouncing and dancing and pogo-ing was just too much for it, and it split RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE. The right half of the pit sunk three inches lower than the left half, and the bouncing continued, and it got REALLY wobbly. Having worked road shows at Centre before, I knew how far of a drop that would be if the pit suddenly gave way, so I took to desperately clutching the edge of the stage. Fortunately, the bracing held, and we continued to rock. And it was awesome. Gabbard should have pictures of the damage up soon.

Fun and games

I suppose I should introduce you all to my newest addiction, that being the LJ community RE: Image. It's great fun times, and if anything is good practice for me drawing with a Wacom. Bringing you such favorites as... Cosplay! Paint Parties! Inside Jokes with other members with context outside of the community! Discussion of irrational fears! Underwater! and, of course....Dance Parties So yes, go and play. THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS TONIGHT!!! WOOOO!!!!