grad school : U.C. Berkeley

Dr. Lakoff would be an awesome supervisor… I will regret it for the rest of my life if I don’t give it a shot. U. C. Berkeley – check!!!

http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/person_detail.php?person=22

Oh, but I will need a GRE score to apply.

grad school : California State U, Fresno

I’ve taken Dr. Okamoto’s course at LSA Summer Institute 2003, and she is the one who made me want to get into the field. It seems like she collaborates with Dr. Smith at U.C. Davis as well. I need to keep this school on my list. Cool.

http://www.csufresno.edu/linguistics/faculty_staff/faculty/okamoto.shtml

GRE hell

I’m a non-native speaker of English, so I don’t know whether I need a score for GRE, but I don’t think I can get away with a great score in TOEFL (test of English as a foreign language) since I have a degree from an American university…

The problem I have with this exam is that verbal section is SO HARD for me.  When I was still in undergrad, I tried studying for it, and I did actually memorize more than 500 vocabulary items that I had never seen or heard of before… but my score for the verbal section was in the high 200s (though my math section was in the high 700s). Considering VERBAL skill is so important in the field of Anthropology, I am very worried about this test. I hope I don’t have to take it… if I do, I hope I can get a better score next time.

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http://www.ets.org/gre