i am happy to report that as of this morning, i feel like curling up and dying in a corner. after going to bed really late, my mom woke me up at my REGULAR SCHOOL TIME (insanely early) so i could go take the gate test (i have to pass it if i want to get into advanced english). we had to drive to santa barbara middle school, where it was being held in a tiny little room that was all wood-paneled and had this awful flourescent lighting. there were about 25 other kids in there as well, mostly a horde of dumb emo/skater boys wearing disgustingly tight pants. and the test itself...argh. i was confident about every single question in the english and reading sections, and i finished really early. but then we had a math part (why do they need a math section when we're taking the test to get into ENGLISH?) and i almost certainly failed it. i couldn't finish any of the sections. then we had this weird pattern recognition thing, and usually that's pretty simple, but these patterns...the similarities we were supposed to find were the TINIEST little things, and you had to study them forever to see the resemblance, but we only had 10 friggin' minutes for 25 questions. couldn't finish that part either. three hours spent in a depressing room taking an idiotic test with idiotic people first thing in the morning when you have horrible cramps and just started your period--it has been the end of me. *dies dramatically*
Brittastiq · Sun Jan 15, 2006 @ 12:55am · 4 Comments |