I finally took the GRE. The test center was on the 16th floor of the Prometric tower in La Defense area and I had a nice view on Paris and the Seine river. I’m disappointed with my Quantitative score. On all the Practice tests I took, I scored between 780 and 800. But today I only got 730. I could have done better… The Verbal section was as expected. This is not by reading Wired, SVM, Formula 1, Aerospace or Diver magazine that I’m going to expand my vocabulary... For the Analytical section I will have to wait a few more weeks… I had lunch at 4pm with Betty and I realized by talking with her that my life wasn’t that bad. I definitely prefer being busy like hell and sleeping 4 hours per night rather than spending days waiting for phone calls and looking for jobs. At least I have the feeling that my life is going somewhere.
Paris is a crazy city, full of crazy people. They have two lanes in the subway : one for people who run and another one for people who run fast ! You’d better be in the right one ;) This place is beautiful but it seems that the people living there forgot how special this city is. However, I would never be able to live in such a place – there are way too many people for me. But I should try to find a moment to go back there to visit the museums and all the amazing places that I never took the time to see. If I don’t do it while living in France, when am I going to do it ?? Furthermore, a little bit of culture won’t hurt me ;)
Finally, the rest of the week is going to be busy with the symposium and the Team Project. It is going to be In-Situ Resource Utilzation for the next 10 days (actually till we present our work). I also have to catch up with the lectures I missed today and there is also Max’s paper that I want to review. I tried to work tonight during the 4 hours I had in the train but I actually fell asleep like a log. Cannot fight against sleep anymore… I’m going to enjoy my bed tonight.