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See, the thing about PSATs (for me they were Wednesday, so this is a little belated but oh well) is that we took them in the ballrooms at the student union building of MSU, which is the biggest room I have ever seen- about twice the square footage of the upper gym at AB, with walls and three-story ceiling completely white. There were some 450 of us seated at identical desks spread evenly throughout the entire room; we were addressed through a microphone, instructed on how to fill out the top page, and then we all took the same standardized test with the same #2 pencil in dead silence.
But then, just before we started one of the later individual sections, the various teachers and counselors were trying to determine who had the correct time so that it could be written on the whiteboards around the perimeter of the room as the start time for that section. When it was determined that it was 11:11 am, and relayed to Mrs. Corneer, she announced it over the microphone. ("Our start time for this section is going to be 11:11, which will make the finish time 11:36. Again, we're starting at 11:11.") Then she smiled and gave a short kind laugh and added, "Everybody make a wish," . . . and then all 450 of us in that room simultaneously wished for something, and we were human again.
I just hope everybody didn't wish to do well on the test, you know?
But then, just before we started one of the later individual sections, the various teachers and counselors were trying to determine who had the correct time so that it could be written on the whiteboards around the perimeter of the room as the start time for that section. When it was determined that it was 11:11 am, and relayed to Mrs. Corneer, she announced it over the microphone. ("Our start time for this section is going to be 11:11, which will make the finish time 11:36. Again, we're starting at 11:11.") Then she smiled and gave a short kind laugh and added, "Everybody make a wish," . . . and then all 450 of us in that room simultaneously wished for something, and we were human again.
I just hope everybody didn't wish to do well on the test, you know?