Just took the ACT at Livingston High School a few hours ago. Step 2 of my insane plan to reveal the truth about the SAT & ACT essays went well: I wrote a completely bonkers over-the-top essay about (among other things) a singularly dystopian view of the future. My hypothesis is simple: the SAT & ACT essay graders, for the most part, do not actually read the essays they're supposed to be grading.
My essay ended with the line (if I remember correctly) "God Bless America, and any other countries for sure, if there even ARE any." So we'll see how that goes. On the March SAT essay, I asked the eternal question, "And once this most basic of all requirements for learning, progress and advancement is removed, what then? Would the very fabric of society not start to unravel, much like the time-space continuum in just over 43% of episodes of star-trek-related franchises?"
Separately, I mused, "And what is it if it is not our very problem-solving abilities that separate us from animals that cannot remember their most recent mistakes and therefore learn from them--such as the badger, goldfish, yeti, and soon-forgetting tree sloth? Nothing, that's what."
Wish me luck!
No comments:
Post a Comment