My senior thesis, “Special values of hypergeometric functions over finite fields”, has been accepted by the Ramanujan Journal!

Word Smart for the GRE - Second Edition (Published by The Princeton Review)
-A workbook to help with the verbal section
-Purchased from Borders for $13
GRE General Test (Published by Research & Education Association)
-Some advice, but more importantly, six practice tests
-Purchased from Borders for $21.95
GRE Exam - Vocabulary in a Box (Published by Kaplan)
-500 flashcards containing common GRE verbal words
-Purchased from Borders for $13

I’m asking for $25 for all of them. You take one, you take them all.

So there are (counting the 31st) 3 days left of study before the big dance.

I finished going through my flashcards and have started on the Princeton Review book called Word Smart for the GRE. I took a couple practice tests today so I’m freakin spent. I have mixed feelings on that since I got some strange results. Anyway, here is a list of my vocabulary words with their corresponding definitions and my mnemonic devices for today. For some words, I just pounded them into my head so there aren’t any mnemonic devices. Some of the stranger words I had to try to be creative.

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Of the 97 words in my flashcards from A to C that I studied a couple days ago, forty of them just won’t stick. That means of the words I studied a couple days ago, I scored 58%. A solid “F”. GRE verbal, here I come.

D:

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It’s not actually day 1, I registered on the 21st of this month and I’m going to take it on the 3rd of next month. I have 10 days from now to prepare (the 11th day is the test). Math should be no problem, I probably just need to do a couple more practice tests. Verbal, however, will be a bitch…

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