Well hell. Looks like my incredible lack of any research experience prior to applying to top-tier schools is a deal breaker. No grad school for me this fall. THIS SUCKS ASS. I hate the university I go to now. It is a stupid place filled with many stupid professors and for heaven's sake, I find it to be absurd that I have been smarter than 1/3 of my psych professors thus far. I should not be correcting them (I usually keep this to myself and verify my facts using the PubMed database or something of official reference quality). It's absurd. I'm more than ready to get on with actually LEARNING something when I go to school.
Okay. Now that my little vent is out there, I will focus on the positives behind this development.
1. It has happened, therefor I believe it will work out and everything will be fine, so there isn't any reason for me to make a fuss over it.
2. I have the opportunity to do an honors thesis.
a. This will look VERY good on my CV
b. I will gain valuable preparatory experience
3. I can continue to work in the Cob lab I joined in January.
a. Letter of rec from this prof will be a great addition to my app
b. Again, expcellent preparedness from this
c. Since I am working with him alone on something novel right now, perhaps I can co-author a published article
i. This would be VERY VERY good on my app
4. I am 1,000,000 times more prepared for this next round of applications and will do a tremendously better job
5. I can retake my GREs and kick their asses out of the water
6. Now I can register to take the subject-GRE (which I didn't take for the last applications)
So..... this is not a bad thing. It's not ideally what I had in mind, *but* when I do go to grad school, I will be SO SO SO SO SO much more prepared and ready to kick ass in that experience than if I went in a few months.
I am definitely accepting of this new plan. I will rock it out!!
:o)
Okay. Now that my little vent is out there, I will focus on the positives behind this development.
1. It has happened, therefor I believe it will work out and everything will be fine, so there isn't any reason for me to make a fuss over it.
2. I have the opportunity to do an honors thesis.
a. This will look VERY good on my CV
b. I will gain valuable preparatory experience
3. I can continue to work in the Cob lab I joined in January.
a. Letter of rec from this prof will be a great addition to my app
b. Again, expcellent preparedness from this
c. Since I am working with him alone on something novel right now, perhaps I can co-author a published article
i. This would be VERY VERY good on my app
4. I am 1,000,000 times more prepared for this next round of applications and will do a tremendously better job
5. I can retake my GREs and kick their asses out of the water
6. Now I can register to take the subject-GRE (which I didn't take for the last applications)
So..... this is not a bad thing. It's not ideally what I had in mind, *but* when I do go to grad school, I will be SO SO SO SO SO much more prepared and ready to kick ass in that experience than if I went in a few months.
I am definitely accepting of this new plan. I will rock it out!!
:o)
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