Incredulity
I thought that I was done with the College Board, but lo and behold, I was wrong, for in my mailbox today sat an odd-shaped envelope labelled with that scourge-like acronym "AP." It of course held my long-forgotten AP scores to the paltry two examinations I took this spring. I was of the utterly certain opinion that I had been raped absolutely atrociously by the Spanish language examination, but soundly defeated the Chemistry one. This translates into a predicted score of 2-3 on the Spanish and a 5 on the Chemistry. I rarely predict fives--in fact, my predictions have never been higher than my actual scores (they're usually about 1 point or so lower than the actual score). So I was shocked when I learned that this disgusting little envelope held a piece of paper declaring that I received a 5 on Spanish, but a 4 on the Chemistry. I'm supposed to be good at chemistry! And it was easy! I got all of the same answers as Colin Corbett on the free response too (we compared mental notes after the test--no cheating involved)! Balderdash! Hogwash! So it may seem a bit pretentious of me to complain so much about this--and it is--but the real reason is that it actually makes a difference at Chicago in terms of what credit I can get. It's a crushing blow to my ego too. That my greatest AP failures should come in my (perceived) areas of strength is...
I'm going to stop now.
BUT! In my defense, I received an interesting page of quotations from Forbes magazine the other day, which said something to the effect that modesty and humility are just subtle forms of egotism. So arrogance and pompousness really aren't that bad after, are they? Think about it!
1. Epeen
Short for electronic penis, this is used for losers on the internet to try and boost their self-esteem by using a ficticious item such as the epeen, usually referred to in size.
Example:
I got a 5. IN YOUR FACE. Happy fourth of July.
*epeen grows several inches*
I thought I might get a receive a response along those lines from you... oh well. We should get together sometime. I work at PSU from 9-5. Occasionally I do music after that. Other than that I sit in my room, do physics, and read Walden, i.e. I do nothing and have plenty of time to kill.
I've been wishing for the past few months that I'd taken the AP Chemistry test, unfortunately my worries about taking four other AP's pervented me from doing so. As it turns out, I really didn't have that much to worry about. I got fives on Macro and Calculus AB, and fours (which I will forever resent) on Micro and U.S. Govt.
I'm also working at PSU from 9 to 5 and, Adam, and I propose that we (does it let me do HTML) get together sometime.
I was pleasantly surprised with my 5 in BC Calc and 4 in Physics C, considering the conditions of being in the middle of a week of outdoor school (Calc) and not doing any work in physics during the 2nd semester, or memorizing any of the equations. Although I guess just rote practice forced me to remember a few. Greg got a 5 on Chem though. Greg Tainter beat you. Haha. I drove someone home right near your house today and was like, hey, Adam lives right near here. Just though I'd let you know.
I'm tempted to pay the stupid $25 to have them rescore my multiple choice. My ego is just too big...
Now I really really want to go to my neigbors' and get my mail so that I can see my scores. But since it's 3am, and they are probably asleep, I guess I can't. So I just have to be curious about it until tomorrow.
I've got a (scaled) 100 arbitrary time units in a week. 25-30 of those time units are spent sleeping. Then I spend about 20 of those time units working. The remaining 50-55 time units are spent going from World of Warcraft (WoW) to work, going from work to WoW, and actually playing WoW.
I also get woken up sometimes after a long night of work to really, really bad 80's music that I'm sure has no legion of fans except my upstairs neighbors. I'm addicted to energy drinks these days.
I need to go to work now. Matthew Lyons comes back on the 16th, so I'm sure much of my time units will now be spent a) sitting around, b) doing drugs, c) regretting it.
And Greg Tainter got a 5. 'nuff said.
BTW, Adam, I'm wondering if I can use your site for some web-hosting, basically any images I'd like to hold online. I'm talking a total storage space of less than 5mb, probably. Anyway, shoot me an email if you think that's cool and/or you want to catch up.
What is your email?
U Chicago must be ridiculous in their credit-giving. And I'm sorry about that 4. Ya know, if you think you did very well on the multiple choice, then getting it rescored might not be a horrible idea, especially when you know you compared answers with someone who got a 5, and are a lot better at Chemistry than another person who got a 5.
And if modesty and humility are in fact subtle forms of egotism, then what does a complete lack of egotism look like, anyways?