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Tuesday, 18 October 05 :: well.. yeehaw

friday i didn't think i'd gotten the minimum score i needed on the gre for the university of georgia.. i called the graduate school admissions today, and i found out, that lo and behold, they have my old scores.. they combine the top scores from each section taken and thats the score they submit to the department.. i now just squeek in at the minimum needed for uga.

*whew*

the next hurdle? the letters of recommendation. why? because i have such a hard time with that.. even though all 3 have agreed. anyhow.. the letters and my statement. and then for university of washington, a sample of scholarly writing! thats worse than.. okay, NOT the gre. i'm reading 'teaching community: a pedagogy of hope' by bell hooks, which i'll write a paper on. ack. luckily i have lots of academics in the family to help me get back on academic track and help me write this paper.. if it hadn't been SO long this wouldn't be an issue, or if i had written a thesis for my masters degree. anyhow.. its all good, i hope.

posted by brooke at October 18, 2005 12:07 PM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.