Archive for May, 2010

“Relaxing”

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I thought I’d spend the week after finals relaxing a bit.  Instead, I’ve had class every day from 8:30 to 4:30.  Not that I’m complaining, of course.  The fantastic ecological modeler giving the workshop that’s been eating my days is well worth a few more days of sleep deprivation and an exploded closet (if that […]

An evolutionary history of very close things

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From Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters: [T]he remarkable truth is that we come from a long line of failures.  We are apes, a group that almost went extinct fifteen million years ago in competition with the better-designed [note: I take serious issue with this phrasing] monkeys.  We are primates, a group of […]

Graduation in my Grandmother’s shoes

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I graduated yesterday. It’s been a long time coming – as I mentioned, I technically started my undergraduate degree in 2003.  But migraines and travel and money slowed things down a bit.  There were definite benefits to a slow path through school – I know what I want to do, I’ve learned a great deal […]

GRE

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I’m planning on taking the general and biology GREs in a few months and plan on doing some studying this summer.  To those of you who’ve suffered through them already, what were the best study aids you found?

Finished!

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I’m not an undergraduate anymore!  It’s taken me awhile – I started college in 2003. Expect many posts about the GRE and graduate school applications over the next year.