How do you feel about ETS?

WontonBurritoMeals · Post by **WontonBurritoMeals** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:25 pm

I was just curious.

May the wind be always at your back,
-WontonBurritoMeals

Fritz.Zwicky · Post by **Fritz.Zwicky** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:29 pm

How do you feel about plague?

How do you feel about weather?

How do you feel about BCS?

How do you feel about silly polls?

secander2! · Post by **secander2!** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 8:52 am

Haha... seeing this poll almost made me wish that I didn't hate ETS so I could make some obnoxious pro-ETS comment

... sadly that's not the case

Also, maybe I'm just dense, but what is BCS? When I hear that acronym, I can only think of Bryan - College Station ... but unless you're from Austin, I can't think of any particularly good reasons to hate it.

secander2! · Post by **secander2!** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:55 am

Ok... I'm an idiot... I figured out what BCS is

.. I guess it's pretty obvious that I don't watch much football.

Fritz.Zwicky · Post by **Fritz.Zwicky** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 4:48 pm

plague, ETS, BCS - what a hard choice! Good thing we can have all of them

mhazelm · Post by **mhazelm** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 12:01 pm

I was thinking we could incriminate ETS for a crime to destroy it. Maybe rob a bank and distribute practice GREs and GRE forms so that it would be obvious that ETS did it.

I suppose that I am still bitter about having to pay them nearly $500 to take away all of my self-esteem and confidence.

astrofan · Post by **astrofan** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 2:45 am

Know this is a dead thread, but I think it is funny that this question seems to come up every year.

ETS is a terrible company, proving why capitalism does not work with monopolies. ETS has no incentive to make life easier for us as long as grad schools put no pressure on them to fix it. We should consider ourselves lucky that the cost and headaches aren't worse.

I have changed my opinon on the GRE physics. I still can't see how it is a good measuring tool for education or potential, but apperently a lot of people at top schools do. It was funny how different the professors at my school felt about the exam, as opposed to those at Harvard; something I didn't realize the first time around.

Guess that means I will be tenured at a medicore school, if I am lucky

twistor · Post by **twistor** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:56 am

astrofan wrote:Know this is a dead thread, but I think it is funny that this question seems to come up every year.

ETS is a terrible company, proving why capitalism does not work with monopolies. ETS has no incentive to make life easier for us as long as grad schools put no pressure on them to fix it. We should consider ourselves lucky that the cost and headaches aren't worse.

I have changed my opinon on the GRE physics. I still can't see how it is a good measuring tool for education or potential, but apperently a lot of people at top schools do. It was funny how different the professors at my school felt about the exam, as opposed to those at Harvard; something I didn't realize the first time around.

Guess that means I will be tenured at a medicore school, if I am lucky

*** Harvard, the most over-rated school ever.

astrofan · Post by **astrofan** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:37 am

twistor wrote: *** Harvard, the most over-rated school ever.

I have no idea how they rank for physics, but you will have a very hard time convincing me that the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is not the best place in the world to study astronomy. The institution has over 300 PHD astronomers there, which I think is more than any other place.

twistor · Post by **twistor** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:58 pm

No, by that logic it would be the worse place, because if the astronomers were any good then they wouldn't need so many of them.

quizivex · Post by **quizivex** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 8:13 pm

twistor wrote:No, by that logic it would be the worse place, because if the astronomers were any good then they wouldn't need so many of them.

HAHAHHAHAHAH... another classic post from twistor...

This one was even better...

twistor wrote:If you didn't want men to stare at your *** you shouldn't have grown them in the first place.

twistor · Post by **twistor** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 8:41 pm

At least one other person here retains a sense of humor.

mhazelm · Post by **mhazelm** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:12 pm

my feelings on ETS are

$OI^)#(*$%%%^@#@#!!!!!!!

astrofan · Post by **astrofan** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:24 pm

twistor wrote:At least one other person here retains a sense of humor.

Couldn't tell if you were being serious or not in the post I responded too. I do enjoy most of your posts.

There is a thread in the prospective grad section that could use twistor response.

mhazelm · Post by **mhazelm** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:39 pm

twistor wrote:At least one other person here retains a sense of humor.

I would have more humor if I wasn't using Helio's duct tape to keep my figure hidden right now.

grae313 · Post by **grae313** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:42 pm

Re: How do you feel about ETS?

twistor · Post by **twistor** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 11:53 am

But in all seriousness, *** Harvard.

elzoido238 · Post by **elzoido238** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:53 pm

YES!!!! I JUST jumped on a *** UCSB bandwagon over on the rejection board, and now I can jump on twistor's *** Harvard banwagon here!!!!! *** HARVARD, *** THEM UP THEIR STUPID ASSES!!!!!

elzoido238 · Post by **elzoido238** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:54 pm

Oh yeah, and *** ETS and forum censorship also.

mhazelm · Post by **mhazelm** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:44 pm

elzoido238 wrote:YES!!!! I JUST jumped on a f%#k UCSB bandwagon over on the rejection board, and now I can jump on twistor's f&%k Harvard banwagon here!!!!! F#%k HARVARD, F#%k THEM UP THEIR STUPID ASSES!!!!!

This made my day.... hahaha

twistor · Post by **twistor** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 2:08 pm

You're self-censoring. Therefore, *** you.

elzoido238 · Post by **elzoido238** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 12:12 am

LOL! You're right twistor. But I'd rather censor myself then let *** physicsgre.com do it...at least I can say "asses" though.

unstudmaddu · Post by **unstudmaddu** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:47 pm

"Since I know who I am talking to, I choose my words very carefully",

I LOVE ETS, the single greatest organisation in the history of the planet!!

Do you hate ETS?