Official Iskander Grad School Freak-Out Post!

Ok, so my personal statement sucks. I am aware. Which is incredibly frustrating, since I fancy myself something of a unique and fascinating, yet hardworking, individual that any graduate institution would be lucky to have. So the application deadlines are flying at me, I really don't feel prepared for the GRE (because I know deep down in my depths that my reading comprehension skills suck sweaty monkey balls for breakfast), and my biggest life fear is that I will get rejected from everywhere. Others insist this can't possibly happen. But somewhere between 80 and 90% of applicants get rejected from any given school, and while I may be awesome, I am not in awesomeness' upper tenth percentile.

But this is nothing new. I have been through this before. Sometimes various members of my family aren't the most understanding types (my Mom is yelling at me to get a hircut rather than work on the most important piece of writing I have had thus far in my LIFE) so I am just locking myself in my room and working. I happen to think my hair looks very nice.

So maybe I'm over-reacting. It's been a constant through the Age of Iskander that, though I may not think I'm that good at anything, I always tend to get awards and jobs and crap. Maybe I'm just fooling myself, but at least I try to be humble. Luckily I have a lot of great and helpful people around. My friends are always supportive, my professors have been great and eager to help, and Shewara even volunteers to edit all my work and talk me up when I'm feeling down.

Alright, time to go back and kick some UMichigan grad school application's ass. Booyah.