The next step in my enlessly-ongoing saga of getting into grad school:
Tomorrow morning I take the GRE Subject test in Biochem, Cell Biology, and Molecular Biology. Now, I know that to the average grad, these subject tests are barely worth cracking a book open for, but the thing is, I’ve been out of school for about six years now. And while I’ve been using my degree in my work, my focus is rather narrow. I could go on for hours about the molecular biology of hereditary hemochromatosis or the oncogenic mechanisms of the AML-ETO translocation, but glycolysis? Uh, wuzzat again? That’s that one thingy with the sugar, right?
Anyway, the point is that I’ve been studying my ass off, trying to cram all of college back into my brain over the last couple of months. And doing it with mighty little help, I might add. There are no study guides published for this test, and the GRE company has exactly ONE practice test available. Yeah, I know, they don’t even have to do that much, but still. It’s hard to feel any degree of confidence when you have so little idea of what the test will be like. I do have three college textbooks that I’ve been using. I spent all of today basically reading the most general one from start to finish. 650 pages, and I looked at each one. I skimmed a fair bit, but frankly I read a whole hell of a lot of it, too.
All right, now I’m just venting. Sorry. I had to get this off my chest. Wish me luck! 13 hours and this will all be over…
