<p>Yep Ookla. I have been a lab tech for almost four years now. Had I planned things right I could have finished the coursework for a MPH by now. You can take pretty much any class that is remotely related to your work. I have taken a few graduate microbiology courses, a medical school course, immunology courses etc. They cap how many credits you can take for free so that you can only take two classes per semester. The great thing about labwork is the flexibility to disappear for a couple of hours a couple times a week for your class.</p>
<p>Pretty much every public university has a super sweet benefits package. No cost for health insurance, 401a matching, 8-10 weeks of paid time off (I don't know of any other job that has this much vacation/sick time). It isn't a bad way to fill a few years before grad school.</p>
<p>Depends on how you study them. I roted 1500 questionable words in 6 weeks (with daily review of previous words and sublists and taking practice exams and caffeine) . If I hadn't spent every day covering the stuff I learned weeks ago, there would have been no chance of recollection during the exam. 10 words a day is a bit slow unless you plan on spending a long time at this which is bad to some degree as motivation dries up real quick.</p>
<p>Also, if you're hard pressed on doing well on the verbal, don't just use the definitions from review books. I had webster and dictionary.com provide some more subtle nuances of certain word usages. Reading the New Yorker may also help imo.</p>