Word: gre
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Omigod, Omigod, it's midterms, I'm late with a 10-page paper, my section leader called me at midnight on Friday to tell me I'm failing--at midnight on Friday--I failed the GRE's, my thesis advisor wants an outline, I have a job interview tomorrow, and my boss wants me to go to work extra hours this week...
...needed a job today. Realizing how little you are actually qualified to do is the first eye-opener. If you needed work--now--if Mommy and Daddy died abruptly (and--why not--violently), without a will, and Harvard disintegrated into a moldy pile of fellowship applications and GRE pamphlets, who would hire you and for how much? That wasn't the point of this search, but fail-safes are worth remembering...
...standardized test which is believed to be both objective and predictive can do it for you? For the same inexorable logic which holds that good lawyers can be culled out by the LSAT, future business mogols by the GMAT, dexterous dcoctors by the MCAT, and brilliant scholars by the GRE also insists that the very best senior faculty can be identified by a standardized test...
There's even a course that prepares you for GMAT and GRE tests, but alas, this pre-professional class cannot be taken for credit...
...lived for exam period. Winter, Spring, GRE's, makeups, Summer School, the Freshman reading test--Mr. Test worked them all. His stentorian voice warned students year after year to have their pencils sharpened, not to use the lavatory until 90 minutes had passed, and to pass their attendance slips to the center aisle. Every Harvard undergraduate since the early 1970s has a favorite story about the voices that came over the P.A. system an hour into an exam and admonished, "Remember that fire exits are located in the front and rear of the building...