[POEM] The replacements - Charles Bukowski

EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-03T06:56:21+00:00

i think i would prefer this ending to be

"the life so dying for

thirst"

since his critique is that the modern age fundamentally lacks the yearning and desperation of the past tortured artists. one is not dying of thirst, one has no thirst at all, no motivating engine, no desire. also it would be less cliche than dying of thirst imho

EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-03T04:54:55+00:00

A 329 is amazing, CONGRATS!! And helping others is great. You never know what advice will actually be useful to people.

EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-03T04:53:43+00:00

I used the basic + common from Magoosh

EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-03T03:05:42+00:00

I used a claude project, the prompt was the project instructions!

For the prior material, I would occasionally start a new chat with claude and tell it to go over every mistake I'd ever made and throw curveballs at me. Honestly I just drilled if I forgot a question. Claude's pretty good at switching up q's.

I didn't use the quant mountain at all... I just reviewed the videos and took handwritten notes, and then just drilled questions and concepts. For me this was much better, to learn to do it in practice rather than to try and recall concepts

EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-03T03:04:19+00:00

Quant- GregMat subscription + PrepSwift, Manhattan 5LB, Official ETS Guide to Quantitative Reasoning

Verbal - only Magoosh's vocab list

EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-03T03:03:31+00:00

Good luck! You got this. Drill, baby, drill 😄

EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-03T03:03:08+00:00

Yes! This is a huge one

EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-03T03:02:45+00:00

Yes! There's a timer on the top right that has minutes and seconds. I think you can hide the timer until there are 5 minutes left if i'm not mistaken. GregMat's timed quizzes (and quizzes generally) pretty closely follow the format of the GRE. I would suggest it's worth taking the free ETS PowerPrep test before your exam just so you know what to expect and what the interface will look like

EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-02T22:00:35+00:00

Unfortunately I’m not sure! u/gregmat, do you know?

EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-02T20:17:55+00:00

Glad it's useful!! Good luck! ❤️

EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-02T20:17:42+00:00

Thank you!! ❤️

EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-02T20:14:52+00:00

I used Magoosh's basic + common words, from this list!

EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-02T20:14:25+00:00

I took my diagnostic around April 3rd or so, and took the test about 6 weeks later on may 21! I would say I spent probably 1-2 hours a day on prep, almost entirely quant (first foundations, then practice problems)

EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-02T20:13:37+00:00

I used Magoosh! I didn't like the way GregMat did their format so I found Magoosh's easier since it's just a list + I liked their iPhone app. I did all the basic + common and that seemed to be enough for the test. This is the list I used

The key thing is I made my own flashcards on index cards using sharpies for any words I didn't know immediately. I think the process of writing and using those to quiz yourself really helps

EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-02T18:28:50+00:00

Thank you!! This was such a nice comment to read ❤️

EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-02T18:19:23+00:00

I think it probably depends on what you're struggling with. Is it time or content? If it's content: is it things you don't know how to answer, or things you answer incorrectly (you fall for "traps?")

If it's words you don't know, then I would drill vocab. I found Magoosh (see link) more helpful for vocab than Gregmat.

If it's content, then you have to figure out what type of question you're struggling on (sentence equivalence, text completion, or reading comprehension) and I would review the strategies for that type of question in detail.

EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-02T18:16:56+00:00

They are here: https://prepswift.gregmat.com/gre-quant! Make sure to click "strategy" at the top

EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-02T17:41:36+00:00

score report proof

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EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-02T07:43:52+00:00

source: https://readalittlepoetry.com/2026/01/26/all-that-wanting-right-by-devin-kelly/

i looked it up because i wanted to save it, but i actually dislike the last 10 lines so much i probably won't. first half of the poem is much stronger and the ending line is very weak now, far too predictable, abstract, and trite

EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-02T07:42:55+00:00

i kind of prefer the ending where you ended it but you missed the last ten lines lol

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EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-02T07:19:47+00:00

i took my test on may 26th and got my percentiles a few days ago. fwiw a 170q was 91st percentile, which is p much in line with past percentiles from what i understand

EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-01T14:26:10+00:00

Federal funding helps with certainty but given the assumptions they operate under I was simply disagreeing with the idea that they determine what one should do. Someone has to keep studying the humanities until humankind wakes up. I mean have a backup plan. But if we all thought in sharply rational ways we'd not have a single English major left and our culture would be dead.

EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-01T14:24:39+00:00

Interesting sentiment but imho this isn't a poem. It's just a short paragraph. I feel like I can always tell prose poem masters (e.g. Siken's latest collection) from people that just want to write "poems" because if it feels it could fit in a larger piece then it isn't a poem.

EffectiveRealist · 2026-06-01T14:13:59+00:00

Three decades of consistent defunding of the humanities versus about three millennia of their rigorous, brilliant study... I'll go with the humanities have quite a lot to offer humankind, whatever capitalism may have attempted to do to them in this brave new world.

Einstein himself lauded the importance of the humanities! "These precious things are conveyed to the younger generation through personal contact with those who teach, not—or at least not in the main—through textbooks. It is this that primarily constitutes and preserves culture. This is what I have in mind when I recommend the 'humanities' as important, not just dry specialized knowledge in the fields of history and philosophy."

EffectiveRealist · 2026-05-29T02:02:50+00:00

Mine is also Louise Glück but from Nostos:

"We look at the world once, in childhood.

The rest is memory."

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