I’ve spent my life as not-a-math-person, and I accepted that easily because math is hard. So, I’ve spent the last 21 years that I’ve been in school snoozing through math classes, dragging my feet, cheating, accepting standardized test scores dragged down by severely low math scores, etc.
Then, I started using www.aleks.com’s tutorial in precalc, and was shocked at how fun and logical and easy it was!
I’m making progress, which the program measures weekly, and having a lot of fun. I can’t believe I just typed that: I’m enjoying math. Hooray.
Oct 20, 2008, 07:46AM PDT | 0 comments
I took a GRE practice test today, one that came with my GRE book, and jesuschrist teh carnage! My verbal was okayish and I know that on a different day or with a bit of brushing up, it’ll be better… but my math rang in at 240! I think that’s only 40 points more than they give you for starting the test at all. I’m pretty sure I can get my verbal past 7, but that means that I still need my math around 5 to be competitive. I am not sure that I see that happening. Maybe I should look into marrying well… or into programs that don’t require/recommend a GRE score.
In any case, I’m going to work on the math. Maybe a miracle will come around…
Apr 20, 2008, 07:43PM PDT | 0 comments
