So I attended tonight’s College Counselling Office-offered SAT 1 workshop on Math and Grammar. Entirely as was expected–almost entirely useless. I was reminded to factor out interesting things, and besides that, nothing was accomplished (though some time was wasted). Seniors and students who had gone to previous sessions told us, urged us, not to go. Still we went. When we got there, Boaz had just gone to one 30 minutes previous–and he told us it was a waste of time. Still we stayed. It was a waste of time. It was useless. And we still went, knowing all this beforehand…

Our Powerpoint presentations were all presented by one Ms. Tasker; we were reminded of this fact as the start of each, as the title slide included her name and “presented by.” Why anyone would want to be associated with that sordid affair, I know not why. She was fine until 10 minutes in she ran out of words and started reading off the slides.

One note on grammar: I wish the SAT asked fun grammar questions, like “What should the correct complete predicate be?” or “how do you use a semicolon, you stupid teenager?” You know, useful things.

I think I may go to the next one, which covers the reading and essay–n.b. I got a 12 on the essay when I took the SAT last spring for fun, and did fairly well on the reading… yet I persist.