Welcome to my Journey!

Hey there you lucky reader! You've perhaps stumbled upon or searched for a way to help yourself with getting into graduate school. Maybe you too have no idea what you are doing, or maybe you just need some support along the way.

I made this blog because I thought it would be nice to help other people realize that they are never alone when life throws all of these new expectations at us! 100-years ago, it was awesome if you finished high school. 50-years ago, you were a genius if you went all the way to college. Now, you're not so special unless you bite the bullet and go the whole nine -- graduate school, medical school, law school.

Of course, we are a great generation and our parents have raised us well! We can make it that far if we just try, but since we are all getting into this while in our twenties, we are expected to go about it relatively independently. With this blog, I will denote the motions of someone who has had no need for such independence suddenly taking things into her own hands -- because I don't have a choice...

I will get into grad school if it's the last thing I do! Who's with me?

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Book Review

Hey everyone! Here you can find the books I recommend to use when looking for grad schools. For each book I get my  hands on, I will include a small review that will detail how it should be used and how useful it was for me. Each book title links to where I would purchase the book, but it is likely that these books can be found in your library as well. If you don't plan on writing in the book, I recommend just checking it out from the library for as long as you will need it. I hope this makes it easier to see everything you are looking for!

  1. GRE: Practicing to Take the General Test
  2. Kaplan GRE Exam Subject Test Psychology
  3. Barron's GRE Psychology: Graduate Record Examination in Psychology Review Book


    On Barron's GRE Psyc -- While the testing in the book is adequate, the scoring is very much not. The book scoring guide fails to correctly sum the amount of questions per section, leaving the self-tester confused as to what their raw score is, what their target should be, and what they should work on improving. I'm guessing that since I wrote in the book, I cannot return it. I also ripped the bottom of the pages a little bit. I never liked the flimsy pages of review books... Anyway, I think I will try Kaplan's book, and of course, the official EST book (EST makes the actual GRE Exam!)


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