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title: Taking the plunge
date: 2004-05-05
tags: ["School"]
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I've been in academic limbo for the last year and a half.  I have been taking graduate CS courses, but I was not actually in the graduate program.  That had been the plan, but I needed to take the GREs first.  Initially I had wanted to take time to study and prepare before taking the GREs.  Monday I realized that that was never going to happen.

So I have taken the plunge.  I am scheduled to take the GREs on May 11th. That would be the day after my final exam for Software Engineering; I might as well get all the pain over with quickly.  I have my application to grad school in my bag as I type this and will be dropping it off today (once I figure out where it needs to go).  Last night was spent honing my answers to the fluffy questions that schools seem to want to know about.  I even found 3 <span style="text-decoration: line-through">suckers</span> kind individuals to write me recommendations.

A part of me is really wondering: "What the **hell** am I thinking?"  I guess we shall see.
