GRE:
Jack, as intended to, was to graduate with electrical engineering degree after 3 years of university and skipping out on 1 in every 4 lectures and recitations on average, but in actuality more, much more, because of time devoted to his brotherhood and the neighborhood bar and chasing skirts, hot pants, fair isle sweaters, and making pocket money by doing jobs.
In fact, Jack skipped more than half of all lectures during all spring semesters, and enough entire courses.
Jack looked too young to get a job, and besides, so he bought a Graduate Record Exam preparation book, intending to take the too-many hours exam and apply to graduate schools.
Most of the semester passed, and quickly, but the GRE book never got opened, not even once.
Dunbars was a popular college town bar on Eddy Street, and there we would find jack doing Friday afternoon happy-hour, generally downing one and half pitchers of beer before driving to Seneca lake to visit with Karen. The particular Friday before the Saturday all-day GRE exam was not different than any other Friday, but for the act of jack asking self a question, "if I take another drink I would not be taking the GRE tomorrow. Am I having another drink?"
Jack did take another drink, drove to Seneca lake and did not take the GRE.
Without the GRE, the only graduate school open to jack's application was his undergraduate institution. Jack's achievement to date could only be described as fair and by no ways guarantee a place at his Alma mater.
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