No turning back

I scheduled my GRE as you all know, and it ended up having to be scheduled for about 1.5weeks sooner than I had hoped. I have always had a bit of a problem with anxiety and have been a glutton for piling on more than I can handle- all of this application stuff has been getting to me more and more and Sunday evening brought the straw that broke the camel's back.

On the way back from visiting a friend in Bismarck with my best friend, he informs me on the ride home that he is putting in a request to transfer to Utah by the end of the week and will make the final decision as to whether he will transfer this Fall if they accept him. This was just one bit of information more than I could handle and I've ultimately spent the last several days as a useless lump wallowing in my anxiety buried in a pile of things to do... all but ready to cancel my GRE and scratch the whole vet application idea this year.

It hasn't helped that I also spent quite a few days not-so-patiently awaiting my GRE review books to arrive in the mail (3 day shipping my foot!). They finally arrived late Tuesday night, and to my dismay they are all reviews for the NEW revised GRE! I had forgotten I ordered ones specifically for the new one.

I have since gotten my act together, enough to be functioning at least, and began a little online review last night. I went through the sample problems for the Quantitative section on the official ETS site and that didn't end so promising...

A warning to those that are also planning to use the official site for review: They offer a Powerprep software for free download. Let me tell you, this thing looked ancient from what I saw and what I read about it. I downloaded it anyways, followed the FAQ on how to run it on my Windows 7 OS and guess what- didn't work! I wasted about an hour between the download and googling for help to get it to work. There was a site I found that said you could download a virtual PC and run windows XP in the VPC- and this could then be used to run the Powerprep software. According to the VPC site my system is not an "ultimate" or other top-notch system so I'm not allowed to download the VPC either... My advice, stay far... far.. far... away from the Powerprep!

I am back at work again today (and thankfully so for the opportunity to keep me occupied for 12hrs and have a little return to normalcy); I'm starting to feel the crunch for the GRE- only 3-4 more days to review! I have to remind myself that it is only necessary for just 1 of my picks (UMN) and that I will have the chance to retake the New GRE for my other choices, and can be better prepared for them.

Nobody ever said this would be easy, NO turning back now! >.<