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Re: the Bleachers
« Reply #101 on: May 27th, 2003, 7:17pm » |
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Ya' know on "the Gridiron" we have HOT threads  and STICKY threads  ... But, I can't figure out how to make this one and ... HOT and STICKY, that is!
Maybe, this'll help...
   and, of course, you can't really do it without 
   
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« Reply #102 on: Jun 4th, 2003, 10:57pm » |
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Fellas,
I gotta' big day tomorrow! Finally takin' this GRE, something no 30-something-year-old-man should be doin', but the influence this damn test will have on the "next chapter of my life" is so huge. Taking this thing will, at least symbolically, signify the start of that next chapter that was supposed to have begun at least two years ago and really, according to the original plan, as many as eight years ago. What amounted to a seven-year diversion to Korea later... and, well, "here" I am. Anyway, just givin' one final shout-out for any "love"/"energy" you guys can spare to send the way of this ogreish despot you have here!   I want to get this behind me in one shot and get a move on to where I "should be". Thanks, guys!  I am...
...Sincerely Your "Warm and Fuzzy" Tyrant and "Friendly Neighborhood" Cult Leader, 
Steg 
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Re: the Bleachers
« Reply #106 on: Jun 5th, 2003, 8:05am » |
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Is anyone still watching the NBA Finals? I know I'm not... People at work aren't talking about it... Not much talk on the radio either... Does anyone out there really care? Normally, when my team gets beat in the playoffs, I end up rooting for another and finish watching the season. That didn't happen this year. When the Lakers lost, I rooted for Dallas, but with the Mavs gone, I could care less... I can't stand SA or NJ. I hope they both lose. 
I'm not a huge hockey fan, but I must admit I got very excited the other night when the Ducks pulled off the game 4 OT victory. I don't like sudden death OT in football, but it really works in hockey. Go Ducks!
Good luck today Steg! Just remember, "there is no spoon". 
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Re: the Bleachers
« Reply #110 on: Jun 6th, 2003, 8:47pm » |
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Well, fellaz, I'm BAAAHACK! Ain't gonna' be needin' to take that test a second time! Could I have done better? Yea, I suppose so with a little more luck and being absolutely totally "in the zone". Could I do worse? Definitely. But, sincerely, not much either way. I pretty much got what I deserved, a score that will definitely have the program I want to enter rollin' out the red carpet for me  and probably should have me considering schools a tier, or perhaps two, up. As for specifics, I will give you all this much, if for no other reason than its absolute irony, but also because I am proud as hell of it,  Mr. Wordsmith here, "the English Master" of theEnglishMaster.com,  gets a, get this, 760  ... on the quantitative (i.e. math) section. Unreal! I will be launching "theMathMaster.com" in coming months!  This is not to say that my score on the verbal section wasn't good. It was still 80 points above the average of ALL GRE-taking candidates entering Ph.D. programs throughout the nation, but I know I could have within reason done at least a little, like 40 points, better. That having been said, I would NOT expect to get a 760 again on the math. That is about 60 points higher than I thought was realistic... on the high-end that is. I was definitely "in the zone" there.  Anyway, bottom line, this, the first and really biggest step in my "moving on", is FINALLY behind me. I already feel better in spirits as a future that I have had to defer for a long time is finally in the (directly-related) process of its being realized!   Thanks for all of the "energy" you guys sent my way! It was evidently felt!
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Re: the Bleachers
« Reply #117 on: Jun 9th, 2003, 1:47pm » |
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Philly, hope all is going well with baby  Darren! (How much cuter is that newbie/baby smiley than the one we used to have? If you remember, that thing was ugly as hell.)
Anyway, Philly, I wish, well, kind of, but, bottom line, no. 80 points over the average is not that good considering the average for the verbal section is in the LOW 500's (believe it or not). That 760, over which I am still in disbelief, REALLY carried me. Let's put it this way, with ALL this studying for a solid 5-month block plus another month or so of off-and-on study combined with my being an EFL/ESL/English teacher for almost 10 years now, I only did  :gulp: 10 points :gulp: better on the verbal section this time than I did back in '94 when I took the GRE for practice, knowing I wasn't going to use those scores and, thus, did not study very much.  Not to mention, though I carried a 3.5 GPA in Philosophy, the area I am looking to get my Ph.D in, and a pure 4.0 in one of my other majors, Russian, I did not carry that great of a cumulative GPA, 3.1, due to my not liking some of my core classes A LOT and a 2.9 in my earliest declared major, Political Science, which I ended up realizing I did NOT really like, but finished anway, and a decent, though pedestrian 3.2 in my History minor. It would be nice if my (having) three majors and a minor would be considered alongside my cumulative GPA, which actually was a superb 3.7 over my final two years (I went a total of 5), another point I would like emphasized, but... I probably am only going to be able to make that happen if I interview,... which I may do.
Ultimately, though, I am going back to school with a dream school in mind, which my scores, GRE, GPA, or otherwise, should get me in with little hitch. That having been said, after receiving the scores, since I was feeling real confident, I did go and look into reach programs for me to apply to. I realized that my scores would probably put me on the low end of Notre Dame, read not Ivy League, applicants. But, bottom line, the more research I did, the more I was pushed back toward my dream school, the University of Hawaii, which I learned apparently IS in fact the only philosophy program in the States that allows students to "officially" specialize in areas of eastern philosophy, something I REALLY want to do, and, among many other things, most importantly is the ONLY school among those that I looked into, which ranged from Northwestern to the University of Colorado to the University of Miami, that allow for spring semester entrance, which is what I want... need. So, based on a litany of reasons that was only added to while looking into other schools (I mean while I was looking at other school's sites, I found myself almost invariably saying, "Well, there's another reason for me to go... to the University of Hawaii!"), a "Rainbow Warrior" I am destined to become.
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Well, sorry for boring you guys with this VERY personal stuff. Remember it is just that during this period of life I don't have that "water-cooler" to chat over. I don't get out all too much. I am in kind of a cocooning phase, and, yes, sadly or not, this is one of my main... only outlets these days.  
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Re: the Bleachers
« Reply #124 on: Jun 9th, 2003, 11:40pm » |
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I am SO happy for my Devils! This is the first Cup they've won that I was in town for. I remember for their last Stanley Cup victory over the Stars, I was going back to my place the afternoon following a WILD night at a party I had organized at a cabin of one of my colleagues/buds up in the wilderness foothills of somewhere Bumblefuck South Korea. I was with one of our Korean girlies and that aforementioned guy, Dave, FROM TEXAS and a huge Stars fan. We were about halfway back to my place, about an hour into the drive, when the Devils scored that O.T. goal to win the Cup. Immediately following, I have my bleary-eyed, in-a-hangover-haze ugly head out the window cheering at the top of my lungs, which were pretty spent at that point... while all these Koreans just looked on in befuddlement. ??? I also was in Korea for their first Cup victory, when they saved the team from moving (again). No personal memorable story there, though! In any event, it was great finally being in "Joysey" for one!
 I do have to say this, though. New Jerseyans do disappoint me all too often... so wrapped up in their own victory party and not thinking to show a little class. I would have liked to have heard more cheers and less boos when Giguere was awarded the Con-Smythe (sp.?) Trophy. I thought it was well-deserved and a nice consolation prize for a guy who was obviously taking the loss hard. It would have been nice and of no sweat off our fans' brows to show him a little love for a great playoff run. I find it funny how often people decide NOT to take the high road, even when it would be SO easy and require SO little. 
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