So I had my first day of school yesterday. It started off on the wrong foot when I my class location was changed at the last minute. I was just sitting in the old class when I heard lots of people talking about Socialogy instead of ICS Writing. Someone else was in the same position I was and he asked some people what class it really was. Good thing he asked them or else I would have probably sat through at least the first 10 minutes of class wondering what the hell was going on. So after my first class, I went to see a counselor regarding grad school. Come to find out, I DID start thinking about grad school a little too late. Well, the counselor didn't exactly say that, she said I should always apply and see what happens. But I don't really have any teachers that I can get a good personal recommendation from, nor do I have any research done. I was PLANNING on doing research later in the year, but by that time it's pretty useless to the following year's grad school application. We (the counselor and I) finally decided on the best course of action for me to take. Basically, go suck up with as many teachers as I can, as well as really suck up to my ICS teachers this quarter. Then I should take the GRE sometime before Christmas and send (hopefully) 3 good recommendations along with some (hopefully) high GRE scores to the grad school board in Janurary. Now because they have so many students, as well as the Ph.D program to review, they won't get to the master's applications until March or so. So I will do a quarter of research during the winter quarter and ask my research professor to give me a recommendation sometime in March. That and I will take a graduate course in Winter as well so that it will look better on my application. All in all, my counselor said I have a 'better than 50-50' chance of getting in.