Crapstone. I’m baaaaack!
School started last Monday with some genius’ idea of a good time: an eight hour test over everything we learned last year. EVERYTHING WE LEARNED LAST YEAR!
This monstrosity, the “Capstone,” was supposedly created in response to some former students’ complaints that they didn’t feel as though they had enough practice for the NAVLE (the national board exam). Well, fie on you, former unnamed students! Your crapstone was a seriously horrible pain in the patooti that did absolutely nothing positive for me.
First of all, how do you even begin to study an entire year’s worth of material? By procrastinating until two days before because the task seems too overwhelming, that’s how!
Then, after cramming all of your crapstone stress into three days (two for studying, one for test taking), you get to start a brand new school year! The picture of happiness and health! Not burnt out at all! Happy happy joy joy joy!
Yeah, it pretty much sucked. The only positive was that it only took me five hours, not eight. I felt a lot like this guy:
Aug 28, 2011 | 0 | School Daze
