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Thursday, Dec 04, 2008 - 00:03 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

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Facepalm

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So the Game Development paper is over, as are my examinations (effectively). Labour Economics is on Friday, and while its the economics module I'm shakiest with out of the three this semester, I won't be losing too much sleep over it.

Planned for my final semester in NUS (as an undergrad at least) - I need three more economics modules for the B.A. in Econs and one more computing one (and the ongoing FYP of course) for the B.Comp, and with the self-imposed constraints, it's going to get ugly. I'm leaning towards CS4248 Natural Language Processing and PH2100 Logic if need be, and also EC4333 Financial Economics II. These three modules are on Tuesday through Thursday, and it turns out getting two more Economics modules on these three days is difficult. I will have to wake at six-plus in the morning again for EC3371 Development Economics I, and venture into something of a blind spot with EC4102 Macroeconomics III. Microeconomics III would probably be quite a bit easier (it appears that as with Micro II, half of it is game theory), but shoring up weaknesses rather than regurgitating old concepts is probably a better choice (especially as grades aren't a concern here).

/begin rant

And I think I figured out why my GRE scores haven't arrived after one-and-a-half months of waiting. Firstly, I rang Prometric (the local test provider) up, and they referred me to ETS. I decided that I might as well order my additional score reports first, if possible, and indeed was able to log in at their portal. Oh, they didn't accept any spaces in their First Name field, so I became YongSanGilbert Lim. Fine by me.

The good news was, they had a record of me taking the GRE (but no, they didn't display the Analytical Writing scores online, simple as it would have been to implement). The bad news was:



Yes, my address was cut off at the floor number, and therefore any mail sent would have little chance of reaching my mailbox. Now, my address appeared in full in the confirmation email Prometric sent me, so I garner that it got truncated when passed between them and ETS. The very easy one-time solution to this would be to set a maximum field length in the web registration form, such that customers would actually know when their address has exceeded the character limit; I would bet that I am not the only one to have fallen foul of this detail. Given that they are taking in over a hundred bucks for each test, and an extra twenty for each grad school a student decides to "donate" to, one might think that they could have handled this better...

This calls for my favourite facepalm image:



/end rant



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