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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! i WISH YOU SO MUCH HAPPINESS AND bless you for loving america chavez as much as you do. you are inspiration to me and to all of us really. happy to be following you. i send you lots of hugs. feliz cumpleaños <3
Muchas gracias! I kept forgetting to reply, but your message made me super happy!! Thank you so much I hope you had a great holiday!
2,4,11,15. oh and 20.
2. What’s the t-shirt you wear the most?
Probably my old softball jerseys. I’m wearing one right now even.
4. Do you put your left shoe on first or your right?
Right.
11. What’s one Halloween candy that you would hate getting as a child?
Nerds and anything that wasn’t Herseys, KitKat, or Smarties. I’m very picky.
15. Hardback, paperback, or e-books?
Hardback or paperback. I have a hard time focusing on books unless I have a physical copy.
20. Spicy food or non-spicy?
Spicy though not over the top jalapeno spicy.
Happy birthday Deanna!! Thank you for being amazing and gee I had a little speech but just know that you bring very much needed happiness into my life. *throws confetti* know that somewhere right now I'm getting groove on...even if I can't dance.
for some reason, i started thinking of high school musical 2 because of the last line
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thank you btw <333333
So dcuniversewatchtower just asked me some questions about applying to grad school (school psychology or clinical psychology specifically) and I hope you don’t mind me making the answers public, because I feel these are questions every grad school hopeful asks and I would love to help out as many people as I can!
How do you think I should approach my professors when or comes to letter of recommendations? Is an email good or should I make an appointment with them? Any tips for applying to grad school? I’ve researched the schools I’m interested in and I meet the requirements except the GRE which I haven’t taken yet. My GPA isn’t excellent but it isn’t bad either.
Letters of Rec
Email is fine. Professors are oftentimes hard to catch during the day. But make sure the professor knows who you are! You may want to jog their memory by reminding them of any special projects you did for them, if you TA’d, or volunteered in their lab, etc. If all you did was sit in lecture and get good grades, the professor won’t know who you are. And you also want the professor to know you well so they can write a genuine letter. You can also let them know what qualities you would like them to highlight in your letter. For example, if you helped them design exam questions for a special projects, ask them to describe your critical thinking and attention to detail, and experience in teaching. The more you outline your letter of rec for them, the happier they’ll be.
Attach to your email the following things: your resume/CV and your personal statement. The personal statement is important because they can tailor their letter to what your goals and aspirations are for grad school.
Then let them know if they’re willing to write a letter of rec for you, instructions from each university’s application will come via email. Grad school applications aren’t like common app for undergrad; every school is a separate application. And on it will be instructions for you to fill out 3 or more names and contact info for letters of rec. The application will then email those professors, and in turn the professors will submit the letters electronically. It helps to give your professors a list of the schools you’re applying to, so they can check off letters they’ve submitted.
Send out your requests for letters at least 3 months before the applications close. This will give your professors plenty of time to write the letters. Professors are very busy people. If you approach them 1 week before the deadline, they’ll be very angry and most likely won’t write the letter.
It’s okay to email your professors reminders as the application deadline nears and they still haven’t submitted the letters. You’ll be able to see on your application who’s submitted letters and who hasn’t. 2 weeks before the application closes, send a courtesy email to those professors who haven’t submitted theirs yet. Professors are just like us and will forget things all the time, so trust me that they appreciate your reminders.
Be sure to thank them afterwards with a quick email or thank you card. And also let them know if you got admitted to any schools! Professors love to be proud of their previous students :)
More tips: make sure at least one (though all would be better) of the professors writing you letters of rec is in the field you’re applying to. They know what it takes to succeed in that specific program, so a recommendation from them shows the school you’re legit stuff. Also, those writing you a recommendation should have a graduate degree themselves. This also shows authenticity in their words.
General application tips
I have a few on my grad school blog here, but I can jiggle a few more out of my brain!
GRE
Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis is the sole reason I did so well on the reading part of the GRE. It has fun worksheet-style activities that help you learn vocabulary a gazillion times better than any flashcards. I highly recommend it.
When writing the essays, keep your words and sentences concise, and try to argue both points for the argumentative essay (have your main opinion but also be able to see it from the other point of view at the end, followed by a very strong rebuttal). And focus on facts; not emotion. Do not do what I did the first time and treat it like writing a novel and slapping all sorts of descriptive flowery junk to my sentences.
That being said, try to pick up as much random factoids as you can. If you can slap in a date or name or a specific court case or historical event into one or both your essays, then man oh man will the graders love it.
The personal statement (my experience is only in personal statements for science programs. so this may not apply to everyone)
Focus on your previous experience in the field to highlight why you’re a good fit for the program. This should be the main chunk of your essay. In undergrad we could get away talking about practically anything. Can’t do that anymore! The purpose of the grad school personal statement is to show the following: a) your commitment to the field, b) reasons why that particular school and program is a good fit for you, and c) what you can contribute to that particular school and program. Point A should be the most important, and talk about what you learned from that experience too, and how it expanded your knowledge and passion for the field.
But of course also pay attention to the prompt. It may ask that you don’t talk about your specific past experience at all, and highlight other things.
If you published any scientific papers, or presented any posters at conferences or showcases, be sure to include that!
Revise revise revise! Never send in your first draft as your final. Give it to others to proofread and give feedback. It helps the most if you give it to other grad students already in the program or similar as they know what works.
Organization
Because every school’s application is separate and unique, the process can become pretty chaotic! Here’s how you can better keep track of everything.
Make an Excel sheet with all the schools, and create separate columns for their deadlines and requirements that you can check off as they get done. This is an easy all-in-one place to check statuses of letters of recs and deadlines. Also helpful to put your usernames and passwords here too for logging into applications.
Have a separate folder on your computer for each school, so when you go to submit documents online, you don’t accidentally send University A’s personal statement to University B.
Some schools require hardcopies of transcripts to be mailed to them, while others are okay with electronic scans. Be sure to keep track of this. And keep in mind requesting official transcripts costs $$ and may take a few days.
Back up all your personal statements/etc onto an external hard-drive, or electronic backing system such as Google Docs or Dropbox frequently. Nothing worse than losing all that 2 weeks before the deadline!
I think that’s all I can think of regarding application tips. As for your GPA, I wouldn’t worry too much as long as you meet the required overall GPA and science GPA (if the schools ask for it). Undergrad grades aren’t as important as previous experience for grad school. I got a C in 2nd semester OChem and I still got into grad school :) During interviews, no one asked me about my grades at all. They just wanted to know about my previous lab experience and why I wanted to go to that particular school.
I think the most important thing about applying for grad school and even getting through grad school is to always have faith in yourself. Even if there are others who doubt your skill, you should always pay attention to your own voice first. After all, you’re doing this for you. This is your life. Not theirs. It will never be theirs. So this degree you’re seeking, this opportunity to further your education, to one day help others with your experience--this is all yours. And if you believe in yourself, and work hard to achieve it, then no one else can ever keep you from achieving your goals.
I had an orchestra director in high school who told us something one day in class that’s always stuck with me. She said: “People were always telling me that as a black woman, I should be staying home and having kids, not going to college. Well you know what, I proved them all wrong. I got my Bachelors. I got my Masters. And then I got my PhD.”
I wish you all the best, and if you have any further questions, or just need someone to listen to you or believe in you, you know where to find me :)
dcuniversewatchtower said: so do you recommend reading the series? because i have yet to read the maze runner series…i’ve been busy catching up on other books…i have the series…just have not gotten around to reading it
YES oh man but it is kinda weird to read at first bc i couldnt tell if dashner was a good author or not and tbh it gets better as you go on bc you’ll get used to it. only complaint really is that he repeats some phrases a lot and if u do read it like dont look anything up about it online at all until ur done with all three bc i got so many spoilers just from lookin up movie stuff and it takes away a lot of the shock value dashner says he got inspiration from enders game and lord of the flies so if youre into that kinda thing you’ll probably like it
It’s been 2 months since Amy has last been on and tbqh I’m getting really worried
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I got tagged being the incredible captainallenwest...
WHY HAS AMI FORSAKENED US
I DON'T KNOW BUT I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL SHE COMES BACK
IF SHE DOESN'T COME BACK WE SHOULD TEAM UP AND TRACK HER DOWN
TOP TEN FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: I was tagged by saulkarath!
(This is in no particular order except for number one)
1. Faith Lehane
2. Raven
3. Quinn Fabray
4. Asami Sato
5. Allison Argent
6. Katniss Everdeen
7. Jason Todd
8. Sansa Stark
9. Sarah Manning
10. Laurel Lance
I tag irisannwest, dcuniversewatchtower, laurelisbetterthanyou, darthrrevan, reginamillsisahufflepuff, higherbrainpattern, inuruk, mirrormanning, and anyone else who wants to do this!
