Random Rants IX: I'm Mad As Hell, And I'm Not Gonna Take It Anymore!
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What is it out of now? I got a 1210 and considered that damn good.
It's out of 2400 I believe. 800 possible for three sections.
Cheezy the Wiz
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So he got the equivalent of a 1300, and he's whining about it?
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Thats pretty good. Take it one more time. I got a 1810 or something ridiculously low my first time and my second time I got a 2000.
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I got a 1420 when I took it two years ago.
My rant: Al Stankus is always on the phone with his bookie.
My rant: Al Stankus is always on the phone with his bookie.
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i hate leaving CFC OT for a couple of days, then finding i can't catch up in all my favorite threads...
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I've procrastinated on my pre-calc hw horribly and will now never get it done. Bollocks.
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I got a 1510 the first time, a 1490 the second (both when it was out of 1600), and a 2120 the third (taken only because colleges required I have a writing score, although they didn't really care what said score was.). Every time I my verbal score was still considered a perfect 800, although I always missed either 1 or 2 verbal questions. The total number of question I missed the first 2 times was the same. Iirc, the third time I missed 2 questions on both math and verbal, but math only counted as a 740 while verbals was another 800. My writing score kind of sucked.
I know one guy who got an 800 on the writing section, but that made his total score only 1610. I don't think the writing section is designed or graded very well at all. They mostly care about having the essay follow a strict structure rather than have any decent thought through ideas, and count off you can't get that formulaic conclusion done before the 25 minutes are up.
I hate statistics. Although the curve on the last test made that horrible failure into a B, I haven't finished the homework about half the time so my final grade in the class won't be good and might not even be passing. I have a bunch of stats homework due tomorrow, and am thinking that I may not finish this time either. I'm supposed to go see a movie with some friends tomorrow night, but I'm not sure I'll be able to stay awake for it if I stay up trying to do stats work tonight. The last couple times I stayed up trying to finish stats hw I didn't get a lot done, and then overslept and missed all my classes. One of those times I never got my Fluid Mechanics hw done because of it, and another time I managed to get Fluids done only by copying someone else.
I know one guy who got an 800 on the writing section, but that made his total score only 1610. I don't think the writing section is designed or graded very well at all. They mostly care about having the essay follow a strict structure rather than have any decent thought through ideas, and count off you can't get that formulaic conclusion done before the 25 minutes are up.
I hate statistics. Although the curve on the last test made that horrible failure into a B, I haven't finished the homework about half the time so my final grade in the class won't be good and might not even be passing. I have a bunch of stats homework due tomorrow, and am thinking that I may not finish this time either. I'm supposed to go see a movie with some friends tomorrow night, but I'm not sure I'll be able to stay awake for it if I stay up trying to do stats work tonight. The last couple times I stayed up trying to finish stats hw I didn't get a lot done, and then overslept and missed all my classes. One of those times I never got my Fluid Mechanics hw done because of it, and another time I managed to get Fluids done only by copying someone else.
JustinianVII
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Bah. It seems the furnace has stopped working properly. And the temperature's down into the teens tonight.
All that anyone remembers from that movie were the dueling banjos and the . . . other scene. I actually kind of liked the whole thing, myself.
Trajan12
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No way. You are way smarter than that, did you study for it?
Bigfoot3814
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The SAT is so far from being a measure of how smart someone is.
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What's the SAT? 
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Bigfoot3814
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It's a standardized test in math/English that's important for college. It's really a money racket run by the College Board Corporation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholastic_Aptitude_Test
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholastic_Aptitude_Test
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Ah thanks, I imagined it was something like that but I never really knew what it was.
Ring nail rant (cont'd):
So tomorrow I have another concert, a big one, and I started practicing again. It gets even smaller. After ~4 days of doing continuous work in some way or another, I give up. I stopped practicing and I'm gonna relay on my 13 years of experience. I just can't work any more in those conditions. I'll just put whatever I can in the concert itself and not really practice too much before that, maybe just a little warm-up. I was supposed to play new pieces, if I stop in the middle and forget them, too bad. I've never been nervous on stage so my attitude went from "oh I gotta practice because I really want this concert to go well" to "I don't give a @#$% any more, I'll be doing whatever I can and it's either going to prove I'm good or it will have no effect, since I doubt anyone in the audience knows the multitude of very subtle things that I'm doing". Big deal.
I need a vacation. Yet, you know, I want my life to be like this. I just need it now, not in general after doing exhausting work.
Ring nail rant (cont'd):
So tomorrow I have another concert, a big one, and I started practicing again. It gets even smaller. After ~4 days of doing continuous work in some way or another, I give up. I stopped practicing and I'm gonna relay on my 13 years of experience. I just can't work any more in those conditions. I'll just put whatever I can in the concert itself and not really practice too much before that, maybe just a little warm-up. I was supposed to play new pieces, if I stop in the middle and forget them, too bad. I've never been nervous on stage so my attitude went from "oh I gotta practice because I really want this concert to go well" to "I don't give a @#$% any more, I'll be doing whatever I can and it's either going to prove I'm good or it will have no effect, since I doubt anyone in the audience knows the multitude of very subtle things that I'm doing". Big deal.
I need a vacation. Yet, you know, I want my life to be like this. I just need it now, not in general after doing exhausting work.
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