AP Exam Day #1

Today establishes the first day of my second round with AP Exams; three last year, two this year. For those of you who have never been forced into taking one, they honestly suck. Let me walk you through the procedure of an english test:

• First, you walk in and grab a few pencils.
• Second, make sure your pencils are sharpened and sit down.
• Third, get a bunch of booklets.
• Fourth, listen to the proctor's annoying, scratchy, sick voice give you 45 minutes of instructions about how to fill out YOUR information on the answer sheet.
• Fifth, put a bunch of stickers on different papers.
• Sixth, start the multiple choice section of the exam.
• Seventh, think you're doing decent, then BAM! You hit the hardest prompt you've ever read.
• Eighth, say "Shit, I suck," and move on.
• Ninth, time's running out, so you pick random answers for the last five without even reading the prompt.
• Tenth, close your book and feel pretty accomplished.
• Eleventh, take a short break and use the potty room.
• Twelfth, sit back down for two hours full of essays.
• Thirteenth, look at the first prompt and have absolutely no idea what the poem is even saying.
• Fourteenth. wing something and hope for the best.
• Fifteenth, finally! You get to a prompt you think you can work with and bust it out.
• Sixteenth, look at the third prompt and only recognize two of the books on the list, but you can't remember the character's names in either of them.
• Seventeenth, pick a book you've read recently and scribble some shit down.
• Eighteenth, finish with a gigantic hand cramp and a second to spare.
• Nineteenth, you feel accomplished.
• Twentieth, everyone begins asking you how you think you did, and looking back on it, you realize that you're 50% confident you didn't pass.

Sounds wonderful, doesn't it? Oh, the joys of spending four hours testing. I just love every second of it. Back to the grind next wednesday for my stats test. It's times like these that I need a wand so I can trade places with someone for the day (it sucks not being an actual princess). Wish me luck. I'll need it.