Several months ago, one of my friends noted how I had a lot of potential, but I just didn\’t take advantage of it. In truth, I do believe that I do. If I applied myself fully, I could be excelling in any field.

Out of laziness though, I did a lot of things in college…only adequately. I chose the paths that tempted my emotions. At a meeting a few days ago, it was surprising to me how I understood theories and other complex things almost immediately if I paid attention.

My sister is preparing for her OAT (optometry admission test) exam right now! Even though I am part of the liberal front of aptitude-tests-don\’t-do-anything-but-test-whether-you-can-take-a-test-
and-such-TESTS-simply-SUCK front, one person I know who did well on both the SAT and the GRE is doing excellent graduate work. I, on the other hand, am always reluctant to tell people my test scores. But am I not satisfied where I am right now?

By the way, tomorrow is my first graduate school midterm. Stress. Cultural models! Work flow models! THE USER IS NOT LIKE ME. (our mantra for the entire program) MODEL HUMAN PROCESSOR – PERCEPTUAL MODEL, COGNITIVE MODEL, MOTOR MODEL? Grouping principles interfere in serial search! Work-based interview is the most typical type of contextual inquiry! MEMORIZE MEMORIZE. CRAM.