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Title: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: pwrcat1 on February 05, 2009, 01:25:33 PM
Got in at UMKC but really need to go where there is legitimate history program.  First time I scored right at average and am scared that I wont do much better this time.  Who here has taken it?  Any tips, besides the obvious "shouldn't have majored in history" or "yeah, don't take it."?
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: steve dave on February 05, 2009, 01:26:20 PM
take a bunch of aderol pre-test.
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: Joker on February 05, 2009, 01:30:02 PM
History? Pfft....  That's old news, man.
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: pissclams on February 05, 2009, 01:31:46 PM
phssssh.  just watch the History channel for like a week straight then make your own fake diploma in MS Word.  
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: steve dave on February 05, 2009, 01:36:12 PM
phssssh.  just watch the History channel for like a week straight then make your own fake diploma in MS Word.  

I would major in monster hunters if I were you.   :users:
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: Rick Daris on February 05, 2009, 01:41:34 PM
maybe pay someone to take it for you  :confused:

I'd ask Limestone if i were you. He lives in kc, is really good at things like this, and is probably pretty questionable on the ethical side.
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: steve dave on February 05, 2009, 01:42:13 PM
and is probably pretty questionable on the ethical side.

No probably about it bro  :eek:
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: Rick Daris on February 05, 2009, 01:44:56 PM
and is probably pretty questionable on the ethical side.

No probably about it bro  :eek:

I was trying to be delicate about this
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: pissclams on February 05, 2009, 01:52:42 PM
i'm telling you.  just go into the test and do all of your answers in spanish.  they can't read spanish so they'll have to have you self-grade it.  easy A.
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: Joker on February 05, 2009, 01:53:35 PM
'take a bunch of aderol pre-test.'

By take, do you mean crush and snort?

I hear it has a more intense (positive) effect that way.
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: Pete on February 05, 2009, 01:59:30 PM
Got in at UMKC but really need to go where there is legitimate history program.  First time I scored right at average and am scared that I wont do much better this time.  Who here has taken it?  Any tips, besides the obvious "shouldn't have majored in history" or "yeah, don't take it."?


Point of parliamentary procedure....

Is this test for the chicks that got pregnant in HS and had to drop out, but who still need to pass this test to get a managerial job at McDonald's, or is this the one for the extra degree in some bullcrap liberal arts discipline after the successful completion of their undergraduate education.  TIA.
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: pwrcat1 on February 05, 2009, 02:03:44 PM
Got in at UMKC but really need to go where there is legitimate history program.  First time I scored right at average and am scared that I wont do much better this time.  Who here has taken it?  Any tips, besides the obvious "shouldn't have majored in history" or "yeah, don't take it."?


Point of parliamentary procedure....

Is this test for the chicks that got pregnant in HS and had to drop out, but who still need to pass this test to get a managerial job at McDonald's, or is this the one for the extra degree in some bullcrap liberal arts discipline after the successful completion of their undergraduate education.  TIA.

Haha It's for graduate school.  Good point though, should have clarified!
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: Pete on February 05, 2009, 02:10:44 PM
Got in at UMKC but really need to go where there is legitimate history program.  First time I scored right at average and am scared that I wont do much better this time.  Who here has taken it?  Any tips, besides the obvious "shouldn't have majored in history" or "yeah, don't take it."?


Point of parliamentary procedure....

Is this test for the chicks that got pregnant in HS and had to drop out, but who still need to pass this test to get a managerial job at McDonald's, or is this the one for the extra degree in some bullcrap liberal arts discipline after the successful completion of their undergraduate education.  TIA.

Haha It's for graduate school.  Good point though, should have clarified!

Here's a tip dude.....don't bother with ANY graduate degree in a liberal arts (non-hard science) major unless you get into a tier-1 (e.g. Ivy League) school.  Waste of money.  Better to just knock off a couple liquor stores and go back pack around europe for awhile.  You'll come back with about the same job opportunities and have less debt and great stories.
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: pissclams on February 05, 2009, 02:17:58 PM
first thing you want to do is get an email address.  electricity is a great way to communicate with potential graduate schools because you will impress them by being ahead of the technology curve.

report back to this thread for step two, only after step one is complete.
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: slucat on February 05, 2009, 02:18:54 PM
My MS was a waste of time and money, it really hasn't paid off for me professtionally. That said it is what brought me to KS, bought me some time before having to join the work force, and I really had a great time doing it, BTW was in a Science Major...
As for ideas, good luck, its like the SAT you can't really study for it.  I didn't study at all for mine, no idea what I got, granted that was almost 9 years ago.
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: pissclams on February 05, 2009, 02:23:47 PM
My MS was a waste of time and money, it really hasn't paid off for me professtionally. That said it is what brought me to KS, bought me some time before having to join the work force, and I really had a great time doing it, BTW was in a Science Major...
As for ideas, good luck, its like the SAT you can't really study for it.  I didn't study at all for mine, no idea what I got, granted that was almost 9 years ago.

9 years ago?  did they make you take the test using a stone tablet and a chisel?    :lol:
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: pwrcat1 on February 05, 2009, 02:24:48 PM
first thing you want to do is get an email address.  electricity is a great way to communicate with potential graduate schools because you will impress them by being ahead of the technology curve.

report back to this thread for step two, only after step one is complete.


Check.
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: pissclams on February 05, 2009, 02:28:25 PM
there's no way you went out and got an email address so quickly.  step one was a test- lying and cheating isn't a great way to impress your potential graduate professors.  life lesson brau   :beerchug:
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: pwrcat1 on February 05, 2009, 02:34:04 PM
there's no way you went out and got an email address so quickly.  step one was a test- lying and cheating isn't a great way to impress your potential graduate professors.  life lesson brau   :beerchug:


Wait, not exactly sure what an emale address is?  For some reason I thought it was similar to one of those ships that you build inside of a glass bottle. I have 11 of those.  My mistake.  What's a brau?
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: JTKSU on February 05, 2009, 02:39:42 PM
Got in at UMKC but really need to go where there is legitimate history program.  First time I scored right at average and am scared that I wont do much better this time.  Who here has taken it?  Any tips, besides the obvious "shouldn't have majored in history" or "yeah, don't take it."?


I recommend you stop being such a faggot.
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: pwrcat1 on February 05, 2009, 02:42:23 PM
Got in at UMKC but really need to go where there is legitimate history program.  First time I scored right at average and am scared that I wont do much better this time.  Who here has taken it?  Any tips, besides the obvious "shouldn't have majored in history" or "yeah, don't take it."?


I recommend you stop being such a faggot.
:kugayfight:

Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: slucat on February 05, 2009, 03:12:28 PM
My MS was a waste of time and money, it really hasn't paid off for me professtionally. That said it is what brought me to KS, bought me some time before having to join the work force, and I really had a great time doing it, BTW was in a Science Major...
As for ideas, good luck, its like the SAT you can't really study for it.  I didn't study at all for mine, no idea what I got, granted that was almost 9 years ago.

9 years ago?  did they make you take the test using a stone tablet and a chisel?    :lol:

Surprisingly it was on a computer and my score was given to me immediately.  I think that was the first year they did that.  :cyclist: (w/o a beard)
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: Rick Daris on February 05, 2009, 03:18:54 PM
My MS was a waste of time and money, it really hasn't paid off for me professtionally. That said it is what brought me to KS, bought me some time before having to join the work force, and I really had a great time doing it, BTW was in a Science Major...
As for ideas, good luck, its like the SAT you can't really study for it.  I didn't study at all for mine, no idea what I got, granted that was almost 9 years ago.

9 years ago?  did they make you take the test using a stone tablet and a chisel?    :lol:

Surprisingly it was on a computer and my score was given to me immediately.  I think that was the first year they did that.  :cyclist: (w/o a beard)

Yeah it was like that when i took it about eight years ago. surprising fact #1 about the GRE is that it is a self adjusting test (or at least it was). the more questions you get correct in a row, the harder the questions start to get. if you miss a bunch then they start to get easy.
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: pissclams on February 05, 2009, 03:38:50 PM
My MS was a waste of time and money, it really hasn't paid off for me professtionally. That said it is what brought me to KS, bought me some time before having to join the work force, and I really had a great time doing it, BTW was in a Science Major...
As for ideas, good luck, its like the SAT you can't really study for it.  I didn't study at all for mine, no idea what I got, granted that was almost 9 years ago.

9 years ago?  did they make you take the test using a stone tablet and a chisel?    :lol:

Surprisingly it was on a computer and my score was given to me immediately.  I think that was the first year they did that.  :cyclist: (w/o a beard)
i was just busting your balls slucat, just busting your balls  :ugh:
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: steve dave on February 05, 2009, 03:39:45 PM
My MS was a waste of time and money, it really hasn't paid off for me professtionally. That said it is what brought me to KS, bought me some time before having to join the work force, and I really had a great time doing it, BTW was in a Science Major...
As for ideas, good luck, its like the SAT you can't really study for it.  I didn't study at all for mine, no idea what I got, granted that was almost 9 years ago.

9 years ago?  did they make you take the test using a stone tablet and a chisel?    :lol:

Surprisingly it was on a computer and my score was given to me immediately.  I think that was the first year they did that.  :cyclist: (w/o a beard)

Yeah it was like that when i took it about eight years ago. surprising fact #1 about the GRE is that it is a self adjusting test (or at least it was). the more questions you get correct in a row, the harder the questions start to get. if you miss a bunch then they start to get easy.

They probably got that idea from NBA Jam with the no-blowouts thing. 
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: Joker on February 05, 2009, 04:23:16 PM
LOL @ NBA Jamz.  The computer always did turn in on for the 4th quarter.
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: Kat Kid on February 05, 2009, 05:38:19 PM
d00d, get a union job.  You move up the payscale, & increase job oppys, with more education.

Pretty awesome imo.
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: JTKSU on February 05, 2009, 10:41:27 PM
d00d, get a union job.  You move up the payscale, & increase job oppys, with more education.

Pretty awesome imo.

Yeah, but most unions handle layoffs based purely on seniority.  Wichitans could vouch for this.
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: AzCat on February 05, 2009, 11:05:04 PM
Got in at UMKC but really need to go where there is legitimate history program.  First time I scored right at average and am scared that I wont do much better this time.  Who here has taken it?  Any tips, besides the obvious "shouldn't have majored in history" or "yeah, don't take it."?


"Would you like fries with that sir?"  Learn it, love it, live it. 
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: pwrcat1 on February 05, 2009, 11:45:10 PM
Got in at UMKC but really need to go where there is legitimate history program.  First time I scored right at average and am scared that I wont do much better this time.  Who here has taken it?  Any tips, besides the obvious "shouldn't have majored in history" or "yeah, don't take it."?


"Would you like fries with that sir?"  Learn it, love it, live it. 

Thanks.
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: AzCat on February 05, 2009, 11:59:02 PM
Got in at UMKC but really need to go where there is legitimate history program.  First time I scored right at average and am scared that I wont do much better this time.  Who here has taken it?  Any tips, besides the obvious "shouldn't have majored in history" or "yeah, don't take it."?


"Would you like fries with that sir?"  Learn it, love it, live it. 

Thanks.

Whatever I can do to help.  Grad degrees in liberal arts are for the independently wealthy.  Thus, if you're pursuing one, it shouldn't make any difference where you get it because by definition it won't make a difference in your life. 
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: Pike on February 06, 2009, 01:29:29 AM
phssssh.  just watch the History channel for like a week straight then make your own fake diploma in MS Word. 

I would major in monster hunters if I were you.   :users:

Monster Quest* you mean. That show blows. It always leads you on like they're going to find something HUGE. But the test results are always "negative". What a waste of tv
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: LimestoneOutcropping on February 06, 2009, 01:40:30 AM
I don't recall ever taking any tests...



ever
Title: Re: Re-taking the GRE today...
Post by: Thin Blue Line on February 06, 2009, 12:19:15 PM
Explains oh, so much.......      :thumbsup: