Maybe I should just get drunk the night before and see what happens...

As some of you know I've been studying like crazy for the GRE. Turns out, studying does not become me. A couple of weeks ago I got a 700 on the math section of a practice test, and tonight, after spending the last few weeks on a detailed GRE math workbook, I got a 630.

This does not bode well for my chances of getting into grad school. But seriously, they asked questions like this:

Talk show host Ralph Blowhard has exactly one guest on his show each day, and Blowhard’s show airs every Monday through Friday. Blowhard always schedules politicians on Mondays and Wednesdays, Actors on Tuesdays and Athletes on Thursdays, but can have a guest of any one of these three kinds on Friday. No guest appears more than once per week on Blowhard’s show. If Blowhard has five politicians, three actors and six athletes he could invite, and if no politician is also an actor or an athlete and no actor is also an athlete, how many different schedules of guests from Monday to Friday could Blowhard create?

For the record, I got that one right. (by multiplying ten gazillion by ten gazillion and then adding it to ten gazillion, if I remember correctly), but like a dumbass I spent seven minutes on it (seriously, Princeton Review clocks this stuff for you), and completely ran out of time two-thirds of the way through.

And then I had no time to work through gems like this:

Seriously. What the fuck?

On the plus side, I've apparently learned the English language since I started studying, having raised my verbal score from tard-level (seriously, I'm not even telling you people how bad) to 670, which is better than the 90th percentile, which is about the best I can hope for. Of course, the verbal is all luck depending on what words you get, so my chances of repeating that are probably crappy.