August 27, 2003
Anti-SAT

The teenager that still lives inside me got a vicarious thrill while I read this article about a guy who decided to get every single answer on the SAT wrong.

Note: Site goes into excruciating detail, especially at the beginning. If you're eyes start to glaze as he describes how scores work, just scroll down like I did.

Slashdot featured it awhile ago, no idea how I missed it then, must've been on a weekend or something.

There's just something so thrilling to me, taking one of "the man's" tests with the express intent of screwing it up, and known there will be no serious repercussions for your action. Especially while in college, the urge to simply get up and walk out of a test room just as the test was handed to me could be palpable. And, like the guy says, by the time you finish even undergrad school you've taken hundreds of tests.

To this day I still have "school panic" dreams. You know, it's finals day and you suddenly remember you never actually dropped German III, you just stopped showing up, and now you're walking into that class for the first time in three months to take a test that'll torpedo your college career? Or you wander aimlessly through the halls of your highschool trying to find Senior English, but the room numbers keep changing and you can't read them anyway?

Well, those are mine anyway. I sometimes wonder if I'm the only one who has them...

Posted by scott at August 27, 2003 01:35 PM

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Nope. But for me it's Calculus.

Of course there were a couple of classes in College that I really did just stop showing up to.

Posted by: hermetic on August 27, 2003 02:39 PM

Well, same goes for me, but when I was in collage, I just go to clases with hot girls

Posted by: John on December 1, 2004 08:41 PM

the article doesn't work

Posted by: hello on November 28, 2007 04:48 PM
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