The Next Step

Why did I take the GRE? Aside from the reason that anyone pays money and spends good time to be tortured by crazy standardized test questions...to go to graduate school. Specifically, in my case, because I want to get a PhD in how people learn languages. In some schools this specialization is in the education department, in others, the linguistics department, and other schools have a special second language studies department. It made figuring out which universities to apply to quite challenging!

Over the summer I narrowed it down to eight, then eliminated two of those, and now it's back up to eight because I added two different schools. The first four deadlines are the middle of December. All of these universities are significantly north of where I currently live - if you know me, you know I've been wanting to move north for quite a while!

I am currently trying to lock down my third recommendation, hopefully my thesis adviser from my MA program, and then I need to order a whole bunch of transcripts and start working on my personal statements. (Well, I already have a generic first draft, but it needs to be personalized for each school.) Yesterday I revised my resume, which I hadn't touched since 2010, so there was a lot to add.

All of this on top of teaching and taking care of six children! Why am I blogging?! I must go do some of this!

Hej då!