Every time you sign up for a new Facebook app, another company gets access to your information, your contacts, your posts, everything. More importantly, another company gets to start advertising at your friends through you. Yuck.
Here is an easy way to slow down this ceaseless parade of ads and privacy violations: remove unused Facebook apps from your account. Just click on this link and remove any apps that you don’t use.
If you aren’t ready to remove an app, you can still use the link above to change the “Visibility of app”. If you change it from “Public” to “Only me”, then your friends won’t see ads, Farmville updates and such, but the company still sees your info.
Studied November 12th thru December 6th, almost 4 weeks, maybe averaging 4 days/week, 3 hours/session.
I read “Cracking the GRE 2013” from Princeton Review; doing all the examples and sample tests as I went.
In the week before the test I did the two timed practice tests in the PowerPrep II software.
Tidbits:
* I find that caffeine pills really work to enhance my mental focus and stamina. I used them for my physiology class over the summer and in studying for the GRE to good effect. I had to carefully manage my caffeine intake (I’ll tell you the caffeine story another time). By the end of my study cycle I was popping a lot of pills. On the day of the test I took 3 200 mg pills divided into 1/2 pills over the course of the day. Today, 4 days after the test I’ve got a pretty consistent dull caffeine withdrawal headache. I’ll probably have it for a week or two. It was worth it.
* The test paced REALLY FAST. If I had enough time I would have gotten a nearly perfect score. But they make sure you don’t have enough time. Taking the practice tests alerted me to this issue.
* The test is REALLY LONG. I was in my chair for some 4 hours, focusing hard the entire time. It is a grueling marathon of a test.
* I found the following question answering strategy worked for me: I’d look at a question and if it didn’t feel right, I’d skip it. Usually the issue would be that I’d read a question and then have no idea where to go with it, or it just seemed really hard. Or overly complicated. Just skip it! (I knew my brain might be churning on it in the background)
Pasting text that already has formatting in it can be a bother.
The homebrew fix to strip formatting is: Copy the text, paste it into Notepad, Copy it again, paste it wherever.
There is a great program for it: Puretext http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/
With the program: copy the text, hit WINDOWS+V (instead of the normal CTRL+V and the text is pasted with the formatting stripped out :-)
If you know how much cream and sugar you like in your coffee, put them in the mug before you pour your coffee. It stirs itself, no need to dirty a spoon!