Friday, December 12, 2008

there's nothing to fear but fear itself

I think that people are too afraid. Today test results were given out to everyone who took something like the SAT at school a month ago. Everyone went to get their results as soon as possible and then quickly stored them in their lockers so that they could ignore them until later. I don't understand it at all. Whether or not you know your scores, the number isn't going to change. It is pointless to put it off because you'll have to find out eventually and putting it off can only make it worse because you'll worry about it. The test was just a practice anyways and the scores don't count until next year when you re-take it. The whole point was to find out what you did well on and where you need improvement so you can study more for the next time that you take it. I think people make things so much worse for themselves. The score is the score and it won't change, so you might as well know it. And if not to know what to study, isn't the curiosity enough to make you find out? But seeing as that I'm the only one who didn't take the test( because I didn't feel like paying to take a 3 hour test on a weekend for practice) and also that I'm the only one that would have looked- immediately- maybe I'm the one who is weird. Who said that weird can't be right?