So what do I do all day during BSI?

There’s always, always breakfast with a mug of tea, followed by work on BSI. Ballet happens at some point, and cooking adventures occur in the evenings. I attend BSI lunches every Wednesday and other BSI programming every Tuesday, plus other BSI events.

BSI events I’ve attended:

• First Fridays
• Volunteering with Keep Indianapolis Beautiful
• Meet with a Kaplan rep to talk about the GRE
• Indianapolis Indians baseball game, with fireworks at the end

Other things I’ve done:

• Take a practice GRE
• Study for the GRE. Relearn special triangles.
• Skype with my mentor, who is traveling in Australia
• Discover there is a GRE English Subject Test. Freak out.
• Make extensive use of Butler’s Interlibrary Loan system.
• Play card games and Apples to Apples
• Dinner with friends
• Big Bang Theory
• Wii night at the Apartment Village’s Dawghouse
• Bingo night at the Dawghouse
• Ballet, ballet
• Explore Broad Ripple and taste truly excellent avocado eggs

But more than anything, I write, I read, I write some more. I discover that I shouldn’t really be longer than 25 pages and groan, because I’m set to pass that sooner or later. So I sit down and trim the excess wordiness, verbosity, prolixity, pleonasm, and garrulity. Research is what BSI is all about, and if you are good at self-motivation, this is definitely the program for you.