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kessie: Anonymous music meme.
ETA: On another topic entirely, there's a girl I went to undergrad with who is applying to graduate school this fall, and she's been emailing me for the last few months to ask questions and for advice and so on; I think one of the professors must have given her my name, because I doubt I've spoken to her three times ever. Anyway, she's just taken the GRE and wanted to know what I scored when I took it, which I only managed to provide her with after writing three entire paragraphs of "well, it's really more about the percentiles than the actual score, and no one gives these sorts of tests much weight anyway, your GPA and letters of recommendation count for much more, blah blah blah", all sorts of wordy things so that I could bury my score in the last sentence like an afterthought. Not because I'm ashamed of it, but because it's high enough that I know there's nowhere for the discussion to go after that, and I hate the thought of making her even more worried about her applications, if that's possible.
Clearly this says all sorts of revealing things about my relationship with my own grades, but I have to say that my very favorite thing about grad school so far is that there isn't any real competition for grades, because everyone's getting an A or B anyway, and it's rarely even broken down into the actual percentages. It's very relaxing to not have to do the sorts of hiding and bizarre comparisions I'm used to.
kessie: Anonymous music meme.ETA: On another topic entirely, there's a girl I went to undergrad with who is applying to graduate school this fall, and she's been emailing me for the last few months to ask questions and for advice and so on; I think one of the professors must have given her my name, because I doubt I've spoken to her three times ever. Anyway, she's just taken the GRE and wanted to know what I scored when I took it, which I only managed to provide her with after writing three entire paragraphs of "well, it's really more about the percentiles than the actual score, and no one gives these sorts of tests much weight anyway, your GPA and letters of recommendation count for much more, blah blah blah", all sorts of wordy things so that I could bury my score in the last sentence like an afterthought. Not because I'm ashamed of it, but because it's high enough that I know there's nowhere for the discussion to go after that, and I hate the thought of making her even more worried about her applications, if that's possible.
Clearly this says all sorts of revealing things about my relationship with my own grades, but I have to say that my very favorite thing about grad school so far is that there isn't any real competition for grades, because everyone's getting an A or B anyway, and it's rarely even broken down into the actual percentages. It's very relaxing to not have to do the sorts of hiding and bizarre comparisions I'm used to.
