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@ Indira, yes, psychology (non honors) course can also be acceptable. Just send in your transcripts (ask your university for this) to WES and then, you’ll get to know if they consider your bachelors equivalent to the US bachelors. I did the same. With a non honor major, I applied to WES and they happily gave me an equivalent status with a cool 3.87 overall GPA! Yes, General GRE, that you have to give if you want to study in the US. Most of the schools generally dont ask for a subject test, specially if you are applying for masters, so, general GRE should be it. Good luck indira!!

@ Yorrick- Thank you, I could call myself an easily excitable person, but not too emotional however. I haven’t been able to really understand why I can relate to characters in the books so much that I can emote completely. Actually, yeah, I do contemplate a lot when and after I read too… specially, somehow at this juncture of life, I am getting to read some really challenging and introspective books and so it makes the journey all the more speculative!

I discuss it with friends, they needn’t have read the book but of course, can always philosophize on the concept ;)

Which contemporary ones have you read, so that may be i’ll quote a few…. have you tried Virginia Woolf or George Orwell (he more being the “utopia” types)?

And of course, good luck with the research papers :)

Thank you! Now, its done. The score is 1090. 580 on Verbal Ability and 510 on Quantitative Ability. So, now I just have to do my applications well. Then have to wait and watch!! I thought, once GRE is done i’ll probably take a break! but huh!! like, i can!! Now, the marathon begins, I see….. so well, yah, lets see….

I forgot to add…... does anyone get too involved in the book that you emote with it?? Every book that I read generally, I can either cry, laugh, be in love as the characters in the book are! I can totally feel what they are feeling…... I remember crying over chicken soup series too…. This happens with me quite frequently… anyone else to whom this is a common occurrence?? This happens to me with movies too… I can easily be tear eyed or laugh with books, music and movies!! On the contrary, real life hardly has been able to make me cry!! thankfully though :-)

I read wherever and whenever I can. I have serious trouble stopping myself if I start reading! I can go on, by the time I decide its time to hit the bed, (a lot times) the sun has already risen to wake others for the next morning! I never travel without a book or two! Cardinal rules of life have been to carry at least one book, a pen and paper all the time with me!! And, I love reading couple of books over and over again… like, may be I finished reading that book ages ago (or even a couple of days ago), I would just flip open some page and start all over again (not necessarily from the beginning or anywhere else in the book). Being a student, I still need to cram in a lot of Textbooks, but then, nothing like having other books to read and text books are glanced at (as usual) just before exams :D I have of course, quite a number of times read comics like Tin Tin and Calvin and Hobbes right out of the stores, because, I wouldn’t have been able to put them down and a (lot of times) over sized my budget with other books. For me – no folding or writing on books please! I’d appreciate them neat. Sometimes, if the books are too overpowering- then I generally do some writing for myself… reviews or reflections and keep them to go back to them sometime later – for every time you read a book, you learn something new, you notice something you didn’t may last time.

:) Seems like you really liked the book and enjoyed it!! Great!! I enjoyed it too when I did, and the best things about these kind of books are that every single time you read them, you learn something new and can see things with a new perspective! Have fun! Now, makes me feel like I want to go back and read it again… Thank you :)

Very interesting thread of thought, I must say :) I personally think, “helping” is when you make the other person independent and not dependent of your help consistently. Sometimes, just “being there” helps, for, each of us are competent to help ourselves, and sometimes we just need a reassurance. Then again, this “reassurance” cannot be given /gotten all the time… so i think both the situation and people involved become deciding factors of how and when to help and how much to help…..

Thank you albercht. This is an extremely important information especially saving anyone who is applying a year or more! Most of all, a lot of universities off late do ask for a credential evaluation, so getting it means to become competitive as compared to the rest of the population applying for the same course, because, someone screening the application might understand GPA better than Indian %s. Good Luck!!

Words are extremely effective in changing our perceptions about things, however, one must consider that its more in the mind to be willing for it. When the words we read match/ refute the state of mind, thats when words are most effective. Body, Mind, Soul and the World – all entities whether different or fragments of the same “universe” – what matters is what in life are we giving those entities. For example: When we wake up each day, we consciously or unconsciously decide how our day is going to be and whats going to happen and we also decide how each of that is going to affect us. However, there is one more school of thought that ascribes to the world that – do what you can and leave the rest to the power that guides the universe. And every experience that we have had in our lives are generally lessons we learnt – more difficult the experience – dearer the lesson. Perhaps….its all in the mind to understand, and react to all the words around….

I have personally read that book and its amazing. He being an existential psychologist, pulls your chords to think, analyze and plunge into yourself for introspection. Thats the best part about reading humanistic / existential views. They talk high on “self awareness” and the kind!! Good luck with reading that…. Enjoy the journey