Sunday, January 15, 2012

Myself as a Writer, 2nd Person


You went into the room with some trepidation, as the accuplacer was surely going to be something completely foreign, as since you were homeschooled, you never experienced tests of any sort. You get through the math part of it, and onto the English section. Then your eyes widen in startled amazement. The direct cause of this surprisal is the words on the screen.

"Should private stuff be private?"

Now this was purely befuddling to you. Not having written many random test papers, you do not have much experience at handling odd subjects. This subject to you is difficult to do anything with. All you can think of is "Yes." It is incomprehensible to you.You struggle through it, and find out that you did well with the math, but got a 4 out of 8 on the writeplacer. You get told that you can not take english yet based on that score, which you did not mind all that much, as you didn't really want someone else reading your writing right off. But the person suggests that you can take something online, called Plato, and then you could take English. It doesn't sound that bad...

1 comment:

  1. I still can't believe the dumb writeplacer snuffed you, tom. But a prompt like that is so (to repeat) dumb that I'm not surprised it caused you to struggle. There's no logic to it! Pretty much by definition, private stuff IS private, and when it isn't private any more, English in all its glory offers up a new word to describe the stuff! We native speakers say 'public'!

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