well since i last blogged not much exciting has happened in life. i'm still in denver working at the spa. i work. work out. come home. pretty standard i'd say. i actually kind of forgot i had this blog for while there, that or my life was none too exciting to share with anyone!
here i am. back at it. ready to take on this once more. a few updates though!
gmat
i retook the gmat test in march, and i studied so hard for it! i'm talking come home from work and crack open every practice book, flash card imaginable until 12 or 1 am. it was insane! i even turned down outings with friends to study, because it was so important to me! there actually came a point in my studying where i was starting to forget or mix things up, and i almost threw up my hands and gave up. i felt like i was going to be so embarrassed if i didn't pass it this time around. i cried to andrew countless times saying that i was not smart enough for this test and i think i'll just forfeit the money ($250), because I couldn't handle another embarrassing score. but i decided to take it. i figured what do i have to lose, and i promised myself that no matter what (good score or not), this was the last time i would take it. because if it is meant to be it's meant to be. but don't you worry, grad school would still be within reach for me if i didn't pass. there were a few things i learned from my last time that i was able to prepare better for this time. first off, i scheduled my exam for the morning (8am) so i could just get it over with and have the rest of the day to relax! second, i ate a huge breakfast and made lots of snacks to have during my breaks. last time, my exam was at 4 pm, so it was at a weird time and interfered with my usual dinner time. if you know me, i can't go very long with out meals or i pass out. and finally, andrew dropped me off at my test and was my voice of reason, and he was telling me i'd do great! to be honest i was still nervous!
i go in for the exam and just start. writing section is always first. the questions i got were good questions, and i felt like i did awesome! i had so many personal experiences to add and it just felt good. next up was math, the one i felt more prepared for than last time. however, i felt like the questions i got were really hard, and some types that i hadn't seen before. uh oh~ this was not good. i started to panic and get in my head that i've failed. i was discouraged at this point. i thought let's just get this over with, and get the heck outta dodge so i can go home and cry! i took my break, ate a snack and began the last section: the hardest for me, reading comprehension and critical reasoning. oh man another hard section. did they even cover this all in my reviews? oh man! just. get. it. over. with. now the moment of truth, the score. i felt like i could have thrown up at this point. did i even want to see? i felt like i did terrible. ok i clicked the next button to reveal my score, and WOW! i had increased my score by 110 points from the last time. total shock! i walked out of there smiling, relieved. i won't go home and cry. it wasn't the score i had targeted for, but it was good enough for me knowing that i didn't get lower this time and that it was really close to the target score. no more gmat ever, thank goodness.
grad school
so i received official scores by email, and it revealed that i got almost a perfect score on writing, i had gotten an awesome score on math, and my reading/reasoning was so so. so now i could re-start my application to the masters program. on may 8, i received an email congratulating me on my acceptance into university of colorado denver's master of science in international business! woohoo. this was great. i always knew that i would go to grad school, and hoped it wouldn't be so far after graduating undergrad, but here i am! i'm ready for this. i took my first grad school class last semester and loved it, and so here i go. two years of my life, dedicated to school once again, and i can't wait.
up next: a graduation. a baby. and a european vacation
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