The Plan

It hasn't been long since I took the SATs and ACTs, but it's already time to prepare for the GRE. Once again, it's time to look up test formats and take practice exams. Standardized testing is just a part of life, it seems.

Oh, the GRE. Once I've taken a few tests I might get back to what it's about and how to do well on it, but right now, it just seems like a looming multi-hour block exam. Lovely. I'm sure it's not that bad.

2 more years. 2 more years until I graduate with my bachelor's. Then, hopefully, I'll be moving on to my PhD. I need to start looking at PhD programs soon, though, and start contacting professors that I want to work for. That'll be a task for this year. That, and bringing up my GPA. Apparently, loving learning isn't good enough. I seriously need to learn to work harder. 

Every day I should set aside some time to either read biology or Dream of the Red Chamber or study my GRE vocab. I need more self-discipline. 

In grad school, I'll probably be taking some mechanical engineering and computer science classes alongside my biology courses. See, right now I kind of want to do biomimetics, which is designing technology based on biology. For example, making something stick to the wall like a gecko. Or velcro, maybe the earliest biomimicry. Or building a feather. Hopefully I'll be getting a stipend then. I'm sick of only spending money and making none. 

But also, I need to take this one step at a time, one day at a time, starting with knowing my biology and learning my GRE vocab. 

Keeping long-term and short-term goals in mind at the same time. That's the plan. I just need to follow up on it.

I can do this.