Away

So I haven't posted in a few days. Shoot me. Well, actually not, but if you feel that you must, shoot me someplace like my foot, where it won't kill me. In fact, if you shoot me in the foot, it may make me happy because I don't like feet. Feet are gross.

Anyways, away from that strange stream of consciousness.

My last few days have not been too busy--after taking the GRE, I was pretty much totally worn out by the whole thing. I looked on a few websites, and I didn't do as well as I would have thought that I could. For example, the University of Washington is one of hte schools I'm considering for grad work, and their range of acceptable GRE verbal is 550-800. Keep in mind, I got a 570. This means that I don't actually probably look all that good to them in the whole verbal department.

Plus, they only accept 7 people for their immunology program every year. The more I look into grad schools, the less I think I'll be able to get into them. I mean, seriously, look at me. I'm a student at UCCS, probably the fourth or fifth tier school in the state after CU, CSU, UDenver, and maybe CC. That's hwo far down UCCS is looked at. At least in many circles we're higher than all the infernal bible colleges around here.

So I'm competing with all these people from big schools. Then I have to compete with everyone at equal level, so any school like UCCS, so for example, University of Texas at Corpus Christi, I'm competing with all of them too. Then on top of that, there's the out of state bias that exists. People at public universities like Iowa, Washington, Kansas, and Missouri are less likely to take me because I'm from Colorado, and we have our own program at UCHSC. If I were at Wyoming, for example, I could get in most anywhere more easily, simply because Wyoming is more limited, so other public universities are more likely to accept someone for reasons out of their control.

Basically, I've been looking at this grad school thing with glass half-empty eyes.

I think I mentioned that advanced immunology conflicts with ancient Rome, so I dumped that and just went to 23 hours for the semester. Tis good for me.

I don't think I have much else to say. My life right now is pretty boring for the next two weeks.