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CorporateFatCat said:
I'm taking the GRE for the 3rd time tomorrow 🙁. I'm hoping the third time's a charm or I'll have to scoop my brains out with a rusty spoon. I'm hoping to break a 510 V and 690 Q, so I'm hoping I didn't hit my plateau.
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Coming from someone who struggled with the GRE big time... I would say those are great scores. Not the best obviously (that would be 800s... right? haha), but still I commend you on those scores, so don't stress too much! You're already in a good position, I think, but then again, I am no admissions person so what do I know. I just made the rest of my application awesome so they would ignore my GRE scores (500 v and 710 q). But good luck!!

My rant for the day is that I will be spending my weekend off doing Biochem. First Saturday morning in a long time that I have not had to work and I have to spend it doing homework and outlining a chapter of the textbook. The professor went so slowly during the semester, panicked, and is now shoving assignments and stuff down our throats. The last class is Wednesday, which is when we are having our third exam. We had homework due Wednesday and another due Monday. Prior to this we had one other assignment and 2 other exams spread out over a few months. I seriously dislike professors who do not use their time wisely in the classroom and then try and make you suffer at the end as a result. The whole class assumed that we would have no more hw assignments because well there was a week of class left, wrong. This is what I get for not taking biochem at the school I got my degree from... though I am sure its much easier where I am now... ah well. Looking forward to the 17th (when the final is). Oh also I have to go retrieve my assignments and 3rd exam from him before the final. The class is in the city... I live 45 minutes away and usually take a bus from their satellite campus to class. How convenient. Okay rant over... who's excited for this semester to be done with!!!!
 
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Rants: This website, the forums, and the people have become a lot more like high school than they were last year. That's the reason I haven't posted nearly as much this year as I did before. I have no problem with people sharing their opinions, but it just seems like all everyone is doing is arguing and bashing and complaining. I'm hoping that maybe it's just stress induced since it's interview notification time as well as finals time for most people. Can't we all just get along?
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It's the most wonderful time of year after all... although I do not have multiple exams like I used to back in the day, the feeling still of finishing everything and it being Christmas IS THE BEST
 
Today we had someone come in and drop off "abandoned" puppies that they had "found". Apparently these puppies were found in a nice laundry basket with really nice blankets and sheets as well. They started arguing in the lobby of the vet clinic when we told them that we could not just take in the puppies. They told us we could take the puppies, nurse them back to health and then keep the money that we sell them for. 😕 Oh and they also told us that we aren't allowed to call county because they don't want the puppies to go to the county shelter. 🙄 So, the dr. agreed to take the puppies in (2 chihuahua puppies around 6 weeks old); we would call the county shelter to come pick them up later. Of course the puppies looked really sick and dehydrated so we tested them for parvo, and wouldn't you know it was POSITIVE. So, we never even called the county shelter, the dr. ended up euthanizing them right there. Poor babies; just get dumped off by their owner at some strange place...
Oh and before these people left they asked for an estimate for how much it would cost to get a dog spayed....figures. Stupid people. At least they didn't get dropped off at the county to spread the virus around the shelter and at least they got their last bit of love in a nice quiet place instead of in a noisy shelter with lots of other dogs around. RIP little puppies.

My rant: I hate stupid people. 😡
 
My computer got a virus last night. It hijacked my anti-virus software just after I got the alert - literally closed down the warning window as I was trying to respond to it. I couldn't get it open after that. The virus also made it impossible for me to connect to the internet. After spending hours trying to fix it, I've thrown in the towel - going to reformat the hard drive tomorrow.

Sucks, being my last week of class, juggling finals and projects, and now this.
 
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My computer got a virus last night. It hijacked my anti-virus software just after I got the alert - literally closed down the warning window as I was trying to respond to it. I couldn't get it open after that. The virus also made it impossible for me to connect to the internet. After spending hours trying to fix it, I've thrown in the towel - going to reformat the hard drive tomorrow.

Sucks, being my last week of class, juggling finals and projects, and now this.
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I had that same thing a while ago. Don't waste too much time on it...its a trojan/worm and its not going away easily. You can try rebooting in safe mode and then try downloading a spyware program. There are a couple of free ones available.
If you have nothing to lose on the computer a quick fix is to revert the hard drive to factory settings (or at least earlier settings.)
 
I am so frustrated right now.

I am frustrated that my health issues my be resurfacing. I am frustrated that my parents are letting my sister self-destruct. I am frustrated at my sister's selfishness. I am frustrated at my being the only one to take care of the family pets. I am frustrated that I am the only one who realizes that my 7 year old dog needs some time in training and that my parents won't let me pay for it. I am frustrated that my mom refuses to take the cat to the vet because she doesn't want him to have vax (he is an indoor cat...but if he never has a baseline, how are we to know if something's wrong??) I am frustrated by my lack of motivation. I am frustrated by the fact that I am tired all the time.

Classes end on the 20th. I really need a break 🙁
 
I don't like it when people ask me when my SO and I are getting married.

I also don't like it when I'm at a small party in a place that's my second home (my best friends' house) and the only 2 people at the party that I don't know open my liquor bottle to smell it, then leave it uncapped on the counter.
 
racccjlm said:
Corporatefatcat - how'd it go?? OK hopefully!?
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Haha, I didn't post here because I think I did well! I got a 600 V and 770 Q 😀. I am very happy with that score and probably won't take the GRE ever, ever, ever again. We'll see about the AW section though....
 
NStarz said:
I am frustrated that my parents are letting my sister self-destruct. I am frustrated at my sister's selfishness.
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My little brother is in self-destruct mode. He's 18, went back to highschool for an extra year to "upgrade" (improve his bad marks) and his highest mark is a 61. He's tried to get a job, but since he refuses to work fast food, he's limiting himself. Yet he's still allowed to play Xbox, stay out all hours of the night, and my parents are paying for him to get his license (my parents made me get a job to pay for mine and as a result, I still only have my beginners). My nanny sneaks me money everytime I see her because I'm the "good" grandchild and I don't have an attitude like my brother does. It just hurts that my brother is throwing away his options and it hurts when other family memembers talk about him in a negative light. He wants to be a pilot and I want to see him become that. He's destined to live in my parent's nice cozy basement until he inherits their house. 😡
 
I'm sure this has been covered before, but my most recent annoyance is having to pretend to be fresh, chipper, and well-rested the morning after a call shift. Frequently my post call days land on our didactic lecture days. My attendings are visually annoyed if I appear to be struggling for consciousness at 10am on my post call day, in a darkened lecture hall, on a topic I can't follow (because I'm too tired), when I've been awake since 4:30am the previous day. Excuse me for appearing tired. News flash: I AM TIRED! Mentally and physically. I was just up for the past 30 hours, during which I spent most of that time on my feet or bent over applying splints. I didn't realize there was an acting requirement in residency. If you don't want me to appear tired, you better pony up for an espresso machine. Otherwise, STFU!
 
Around exam time, I always overhear people rattling off their list of things to do. "Oh I have this project and this 32492384 page paper and oh, I have six finals every day of finals week" etc. And it's like, really? Do you not think that every other person on campus doesn't have a ton of equally stressful things to attend to?

One of the other investigators at another animal facility on campus was effing up their research. The attending vet of that building (not my boss) caught them euthing mice in the room (!?) and a bunch of really poorly kept mice (which was her/the technicians jobs to monitor over there?) and freaked out and kicked the investigator out. ..And sent all fifty boxes of mice to OUR building?! WHAT THE HELL. Working in lab animal can be both rewarding and torturous. People are nasty and stupid (perhaps an appropriate measure of society) and sometimes I feel like all of the bad outweighs the good. When people are getting breakthroughs in their work or go above and beyond in regards to their animals, that makes it worth it to me. But seriously, people. Get your **** together.

I need to get my passport. I'm going to aim for this weekend.

I think once these last two weeks are done, I'm going to feel immensely better. I don't like being snappy and stressed but I can't really help it at the moment. Sigh.
 
that redhead said:
Around exam time, I always overhear people rattling off their list of things to do. "Oh I have this project and this 32492384 page paper and oh, I have six finals every day of finals week" etc. And it's like, really? Do you not think that every other person on campus doesn't have a ton of equally stressful things to attend to?
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I think this makes me the angriest, of everything that anyone in undergrad ever talks about related to classes. I don't even really know what to say when they start saying that sort of stuff. It's just... ridiculous.

AND ALSO. There's this one girl that I know that just started the pre-vet pre-reqs and she's trying to compare her one science class (gen chem) with my three upper division science classes and saying her life is so hard.... I just kind of stared at her blankly. Yeah, gen chem is hard, but... really?
 
wolferman said:
I'm sure this has been covered before, but my most recent annoyance is having to pretend to be fresh, chipper, and well-rested the morning after a call shift. Frequently my post call days land on our didactic lecture days. My attendings are visually annoyed if I appear to be struggling for consciousness at 10am on my post call day, in a darkened lecture hall, on a topic I can't follow (because I'm too tired), when I've been awake since 4:30am the previous day. Excuse me for appearing tired. News flash: I AM TIRED! Mentally and physically. I was just up for the past 30 hours, during which I spent most of that time on my feet or bent over applying splints. I didn't realize there was an acting requirement in residency. If you don't want me to appear tired, you better pony up for an espresso machine. Otherwise, STFU!
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Sounds lousy... orthopedic surgery?
 
I might be the only one, but I think it relieves a little bit of stress to rant with a classmate about the amount of work you have to get done in the last couple weeks of school. My exam schedule is lousy this year... and I actually find it comforting to know that I'm not the only one who has gotten screwed over by it.

Also, I don't know if it's a trend... but I've noticed this on FB and MSN. I know people who went through undergrad without a complaint in the world about how stressful school and exams are. Most had averages in the 90s. As soon as they get into vet school, they're ranting about how doomed the are. Is vet school really that much more difficult than undergrad and is it really bad enough to take up the habit of ranting? Or are they just ranting because (I'm assuming) lots of their classmates are ranting as well?
 
It is A LOT MORE material, but to me it is not harder because I can mostly find a hook into it where I enjoy learning it.

Personally my grades and retention are much, much better in vet school than in undergrad so far. For example C's in biochem I and II in undergrad turned into an A in physiological chem here. Even my anatomy grades improved here. And I really do feel like I'm remembering a lot of it.

However, during finals it can feel really really stressful, particularly due to the fact that is is A LOT of material and very little time to review all of it before the exams - for us at UCDavis it's one exam every day this week except Friday.
 
scarcelyheard said:
I might be the only one, but I think it relieves a little bit of stress to rant with a classmate about the amount of work you have to get done in the last couple weeks of school. My exam schedule is lousy this year... and I actually find it comforting to know that I'm not the only one who has gotten screwed over by it.

Also, I don't know if it's a trend... but I've noticed this on FB and MSN. I know people who went through undergrad without a complaint in the world about how stressful school and exams are. Most had averages in the 90s. As soon as they get into vet school, they're ranting about how doomed the are. Is vet school really that much more difficult than undergrad and is it really bad enough to take up the habit of ranting? Or are they just ranting because (I'm assuming) lots of their classmates are ranting as well?
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To put it in perspective, for undergrad i had 1 binder for endocrinology, 1 binder for biochem. For vet school, i have 3 binders for one class. And, this is the not even all of the material because i only print out half of the things (trying to save some trees!!). Our biochem course is 10 credits, it is basically like taking biochem, endocrinology, and cell bio all at the same time smooshed together (but still this is technically 1 course).

So in summary-it is the quantity of material that is hard. I don't have the material difficult, just hard to learn in such a short period of time.

One "up-side" though is that i really feel like my brain needed to be "exercised". For finals I have been able to cram more info in a shorter period of time compared to midterms. This means it should only get easier for me to keep up with the cramming! lol
 
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One "up-side" though is that i really feel like my brain needed to be "exercised". For finals I have been able to cram more info in a shorter period of time compared to midterms. This means it should only get easier for me to keep up with the cramming! lol
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I was actually thinking about the same thing this morning while finishing up cramming for the cardio anatomy final we have today. Definitely a brain workout and I feel like it's been pretty well conditioned by the earlier exams... :laugh:
 
My girlfriend's mother, sister, and two nephews (ages 1 and 2) have been here since Saturday. They came down because they had some things to do and some stuff they wanted to take the kids to. I didn't mind because I was home this weekend anyhow and they were supposed to be gone like, yesterday. Well, they are staying until TOMORROW. The TV is turned up full blast, babies are screaming and hitting things and jingling keys, the mom and sister are yelling trying to talk over it all. My poor roommate is trying to sleep and I am trying to study for the hardest and most important final of the quarter which is tomorrow. My girlfriend isn't home yet and she's angry that I'm angry. Sigh.
 
Basically take one of your hardest undergrad courses. Now imagine you are taking 30 credits at that level.

So yes. Vet school is harder than undergrad. Not conceptually, but it is a hell of a lot more work.
 
nyanko said:
I was actually thinking about the same thing this morning while finishing up cramming for the cardio anatomy final we have today. Definitely a brain workout and I feel like it's been pretty well conditioned by the earlier exams... :laugh:
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Kind of jealous. I seem to be hitting the upper limit of my learning capacity. I literally felt myself "unlearning" material yesterday as I tried to stuff more in.

I guess my brain is cluttered up with too many commercials and tv shows from when I was younger (yes, they had tv back then).
 
Haha.

I think the point I'm trying to make is that if you find the complaining annoying now... well, it looks like it's going to get 100x worse in vet school :laugh:

What size binders have you filled up? 😛 I've filled up a couple of 1" binders between lab and lecture. I can only imagine multiplying that amount of work by 6 or 7 courses!
 
scarcelyheard said:
Haha.

I think the point I'm trying to make is that if you find the complaining annoying now... well, it looks like it's going to get 100x worse in vet school :laugh:

What size binders have you filled up? 😛 I've filled up a couple of 1" binders between lab and lecture. I can only imagine multiplying that amount of work by 6 or 7 courses!
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well like i said before i dont print everything for all classes. so if i had actually printed everything for undergrad and vet school id imagine it would be a couple binders in undergrad per class and probably 6-7 binders per class in vet school hahhaha maybe more. not sure lol i never print slides and in vet school there are lots of teachers that will try to go through 70-80 slides in an hour lol If you can imagine having 8 hrs of class per day and classes 5 days a week etc etc how many slides is that?!?! and that is only slides LOL

Vet school has also made me laugh off w/e i think is impossible. I guess it is a good switch from crying though!
 
I dunno, I feel like this semester has been the easiest I've had since like 1st semester of undergrad. A big part of it I think is that I've already learned a majority of the material for this semester (at least once, if not twice or thrice) in more detail back in college.

I remember back in the day, I wouldn't have enough time to eat or take care of personal hygiene because I needed every second I could possibly spend on schoolwork. I was so stressed out my face was poppin out zits like I was going through puberty again... and my worst fear was that I'd let my professors down if I didn't put in 120% in every single class (a lot of my classmates felt this way). I'd run into my professors out of class, and some would remember exactly which questions I got wrong on the exam and ask me about why I missed them and be genuinely concerned. When things like that happened, I'd die a little inside. Handing in a mediocre paper made me feel like the worst person in the world. No matter how hard I tried, no matter how much I knew... it seemed like it was impossible to get an A. I mean, they even say themselves that the grade policy is such that an A "is given to students who meet with conspicuous excellence every demand that can fairly be made by the course." I've spent entire semesters where I NEVER left campus simply because I didn't have time... and I was definitely not the most stressed person in my classes.

Compared to that hell, vet school is totally sunshine and roses for me!
 
My roommate rearranged the room TWICE yesterday. we have EIGHT DAYS left here and she REARRANGES the room AGAIN!

My RA walked in (she's also one of my best friends) and goes "Oh, I see Nikki took up more space again."

:bang:

My roommate now occupies 2/3 of our room. It's not like she's even TRYING to be obnoxious, she just IS because she gets an idea in her little brain that she thinks would be neat an goes ahead and does it without talking to me. And in my experience, it's not worth it to fight over. Overall she's a good roommate, just has a tendency to be a JERK.

I pray I get in to vet school the first time I apply because that'll be one less year rooming with her (oh yeah, it'll also be one less year of undergrad tuition lol).
 
December is just not my month. Just got word that a professor I was really counting on to work with me on my graduate school final paper has had to bail on me. I don't know what I am going to do.

So much for having my Masters by spring.... *sigh*
 
I should really be studying for this MolGen exam but I can't tear myself away from lesbianswholooklikejustinbieber.com. It's a hard life.
 
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I'm being completely trivial and spoiled, but I miss my normal laptop. I'm on my little netbook for now, but it's slow and freezy and I can't get much done. My lovely story of the demise of my laptop -
Over the weekend on my way back from Iowa, my normal laptop got hurt. 🙁 My flight out of Des Moines was really, really delayed because of some mechanical issues, so I got to Denver at 9:30 - my connecting flight was at 9:40. There were a bunch of us going for the flight, but it took a few minutes to get to the gate and open the door. We all sprinted out of the plane, ran up two flights of stairs, and started racing across the airport to try to catch our flight. But for me, the combination of running with heavy bags after sitting for a long time, dehydration, and sudden altitude change in the mile high city was not a good combination - my legs randomly buckled out on me and I toppled over smack on top of my laptop (in a case, but not protected enough). This was in front of a bunch of people waiting for their flight who just stared at me, not knowing what to do. I dragged myself up, but my legs immediately went out on me again and I toppled over. It was pretty scary. Luckily, an old man helped me get up and start walking (yes, ironic)... Eventually made it over to my gate, but the others who were running for it were standing there frustrated-- they had missed the flight by less than a minute, got there while it was still sitting there but they refused to open the doors because they had pulled a foot away from the gate and wouldn't go back. Instead, they put all seven of us up in hotels for the night and gave us food vouchers. Woulda been quite a bit cheaper to just let us on the plane!! Took forever to get to the hotel, had to stand outside waiting for the shuttle for 20+ minutes while dying for a drink and still feeling like collapsing from the altitude. Not fun. Finally got to the hotel, sank into the bed, and opened my computer to find the screen shattered. Grrr, Waiting for my new screen to arrive so I can mess with computer wires and try to install it. It was an awful end to the trip, but at least the Iowa part was awesome. And they gave me a nice hotel room, for the whole six hours I stayed in it.
 
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Raimes said:
If you hate the school and the state then give up your darn spot to someone who wants it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't sit there and hog it. UGH. Selfish.
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what is this in reference to, raimes?
 
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Why I just can't bring myself to care about this final. Every notecard represents a question that could be on the exam. Impossible. hate.
 
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Why I just can't bring myself to care about this final. Every notecard represents a question that could be on the exam. Impossible. hate.
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That looks like my invertebrate zoology notes (and that's not the one I'm worried about haha)
 
I've never been a notecard person.. actually I rarely take notes that fill up a whole notebook... (This is shockingly not why my GPA stinks, I owe that to not showing up to class, being 20 minutes late and hmm.. never studying in a few choice semesters).

Good luck with that though! I admire you for all that dedication!
 
I just bombed my biochem exam, in part because I found out at 11 this morning that I had to take it today because the library won't proctor on Thursdays. So I had to take 2 finals back to back and instead of 24 hours of decent final prep, I had 2 hours to cram like a crazy person. And now I have pretty much guaranteed myself a C- or D in the class. FML.
 
Just finished the last of my semester work - only finals left. The reason this is a rant is because it was chemistry online homework that is so fussy about sig figs and how you write things and I think it's rather ridiculous. I also did terribly on my chem lab second midterm. Both of my exams in that class were below average and I'm almost certain now that I'll get a C in the class. Better than where I might've ended up only a year ago but its frustrating.

I need to be a studying machine this weekend so I can do well and feel good about my chemistry grades particularly.
 
So, I know that this is totally premature, and that I am not alone, but I just had to get this off my chest.

I haven't heard ANYTHING from any of the 5 schools I applied to (Kansas, Missouri, Texas A&M, Tufts, and Minnesota). I know it is early in the process, but all that I HAVE heard so far is negative stuff. Missouri and Kansas have already sent out the majority of their invites, and I haven't gotten one. I know I should try to stay positive, but it is really getting to me right now. I just can't help but wonder if this negative stuff is going to set the tone for the rest of the process for me (I know, totally irrational at this point, but I am feeling pessimistic. It also doesn't help that my GPA isn't stellar, so I worry that these negative thoughts may very well be REALISTIC thoughts 🙁)

This is my second year to apply, and I also applied to more schools this year. Last year I had one interview and got waitlisted, but I thought that applying to more schools would increase my odds, despite the lower than average GPA.

Sorry for the pessimism, and I know that I sound like a broken record because everyone on here is in the same position as me, but I had to get this out. What better place than here, right? Misery loves company, as they say.....
 
I have no idea how I'm going to make the biochem material stick to my brain in the next 20 hours.

But I did buy a Red Bull... maybe it will give me wings?

Carry on.
 
RaiderTXgirl said:
So, I know that this is totally premature, and that I am not alone, but I just had to get this off my chest.

I haven't heard ANYTHING from any of the 5 schools I applied to (Kansas, Missouri, Texas A&M, Tufts, and Minnesota). I know it is early in the process, but all that I HAVE heard so far is negative stuff. Missouri and Kansas have already sent out the majority of their invites, and I haven't gotten one. I know I should try to stay positive, but it is really getting to me right now. I just can't help but wonder if this negative stuff is going to set the tone for the rest of the process for me (I know, totally irrational at this point, but I am feeling pessimistic. It also doesn't help that my GPA isn't stellar, so I worry that these negative thoughts may very well be REALISTIC thoughts 🙁)

This is my second year to apply, and I also applied to more schools this year. Last year I had one interview and got waitlisted, but I thought that applying to more schools would increase my odds, despite the lower than average GPA.

Sorry for the pessimism, and I know that I sound like a broken record because everyone on here is in the same position as me, but I had to get this out. What better place than here, right? Misery loves company, as they say.....
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You stole the thoughts right out of my head. I hope that you get some good news, though. And I'd like to get some, too. Good luck, keep your chin up. If all else fails, eat some chocolate.
 
RaiderTXgirl said:
So, I know that this is totally premature, and that I am not alone, but I just had to get this off my chest.

I haven't heard ANYTHING from any of the 5 schools I applied to (Kansas, Missouri, Texas A&M, Tufts, and Minnesota). I know it is early in the process, but all that I HAVE heard so far is negative stuff. Missouri and Kansas have already sent out the majority of their invites, and I haven't gotten one. I know I should try to stay positive, but it is really getting to me right now. I just can't help but wonder if this negative stuff is going to set the tone for the rest of the process for me (I know, totally irrational at this point, but I am feeling pessimistic. It also doesn't help that my GPA isn't stellar, so I worry that these negative thoughts may very well be REALISTIC thoughts 🙁)

This is my second year to apply, and I also applied to more schools this year. Last year I had one interview and got waitlisted, but I thought that applying to more schools would increase my odds, despite the lower than average GPA.

Sorry for the pessimism, and I know that I sound like a broken record because everyone on here is in the same position as me, but I had to get this out. What better place than here, right? Misery loves company, as they say.....
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Hey, I know how you feel. I did hear from Minnesota saying they didn't want fall transcripts but nothing much from anyone else. It's tough when other people are hearing from schools but remember that most schools won't send out invitations or anything until January. I know its tough to wait - I'm feeling the same way right about now! - but let's hope that "good things come to those who wait" applies to us all who haven't heard yet 🙂
 
I didn't think it would bother me, but it is. I'm missing my best friend's father's funeral today because of darn exams. I really want to be home right now and not cramming. I am so stressed 🙁
 
Physics final in 3 hours... I have an 87, just high enough than I can make a 55 on the final and still have a B, and just low enough that even if I make a 95 on the final I won't have an A. 🙄
 
I HATE the Visa cards with the chip!!!

VISA sent me a new card with a chip. I activated the card and that was it. I then went to puchase groceries and the machine asked me for my PIN #. I have no clue what it is or how to change it. I hate being a 30 minute walk from my bank. Using my VISA is like Russian roulette. 9/10 stores aren't set up for the chip and I'm able to swipe it and go on my merry way. Then when I need to purchase $100 worth of groceries, it wants my PIN and there isn't a way to bypass it. So I had to use debit and pray that my rent was not taken out that day.

Just a huge pet peeve of mine...

Right now, I feel as technologically literate as a 65 year old.
 
RaiderTXgirl said:
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I haven't heard ANYTHING from any of the 5 schools I applied to (Kansas, Missouri, Texas A&M, Tufts, and Minnesota). I know it is early in the process, but all that I HAVE heard so far is negative stuff. Missouri and Kansas have already sent out the majority of their invites, and I haven't gotten one. I know I should try to stay positive, but it is really getting to me right now. I just can't help but wonder if this negative stuff is going to set the tone for the rest of the process for me (I know, totally irrational at this point, but I am feeling pessimistic. It also doesn't help that my GPA isn't stellar, so I worry that these negative thoughts may very well be REALISTIC thoughts 🙁)

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It is unbelievably difficult to wait in limbo. The fact that every school is on a different schedule with this process is frustrating. But try to take heart in the fact that you applied to several schools that won't have anything to say for quite some time yet. The fact that others have heard good news from their schools doesn't mean a thing except that they applied to schools with a faster decision-making process than the schools to which you applied. Heck, one of my schools hasn't even acknowledged receipt of my application. And even Kansas and Missouri aren't necessarily DONE with their interview decisions. If you don't have a rejection in hand, it's not over. Hang in there, Raider!
 
Thanks for the support guys! I'm feeling a little better. This is our year! It's going to work out....:luck::xf::luck::xf: ..........positive thoughts........positive thoughts........🙂

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It is unbelievably difficult to wait in limbo. ....If you don't have a rejection in hand, it's not over. Hang in there, Raider!
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I totally agree! Limbo is the worst place to be!! No official rejection yet, so here's hoping one doesn't come before getting a little bit of GOOD news! Too much to ask, maybe?? 😛
 
Hello everyone! I'm new. Applying for the first time this year and obsessively checking gmail!

Good luck to us all!
 
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