December 2011
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Take 2: About the Perfect Score Project
Taking the next few days to update this site with current information. About Pageand Graphs & Charts: check, check. Next up: FAQ, Tips, Resources, etc.
December 30, 2011
If you want to read the original, pre-journey, more innocent, less knowing, and probably more magical thinking “About Page” for this website, you can check it out via this link. But, I wrote that page in a...
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I Need Closure
I do realize it’s time to move on, but the truth is, I’m harboring a secret resentment about my December essay. I’ve said it before, but I’ve got to say it again: who arethese people grading the SAT essays? And I defy any one of them to write a better essay in less than 25 minutes under the pressure of testing conditions!
I got back my December essay yesterday, and...
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December SAT Scores (aka, My Buddha)
I’d characterize yesterday as an epically bad day in my 46 years of life, and while the turmoil had nothing to do with the SAT, my December scores did not help.
Yes, I do realize (intellectually) that I should feel happy about my Reading and Writing scores; but honestly, that Math score feels crushing, like a bully. Today, well, I’m trying to see it as my Buddha.
The worst...
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SAT FAQ: Just the Facts
Two weeks after my 7th (and last) SAT in 2011, and I’m finally making it through the mountain of paper* that had piled up over the course of the year.
I’m stunned by all the treasure I discovered along the way that was suffocating in a 6 foot blob on top of the guest bed.
Take, for example, this FAQ from Erik the Red, which I’d printed out and highlighted on March 29,...
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