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<p>BAAHHH!! My own brother is a conservative. How can it be???</p>

<p>Anticlockwise. Counterclockwise. Take your pick.</p>

<p>No. They stopped counting HSL posts when all the cool people over the summer started making good threads that didn’t exactly pertain to high school. The mods got tired of moving threads from HSL to the Cafe, so they just stopped counting HSL posts.</p>

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<p>No one says anticlockwise here.</p>

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<p>Better than anti-counter clockwise…</p>

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<p>Theory of knowledge is going to kill me.</p>

<p>“‘Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.’ How do you understand this famous quotation from 1984 by George Orwell? To what extent do you agree with it and what are its implications?”</p>

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<p>Oh. My. Goodness. I got an 8 on the ACT essay. AN 8!!! What happened? The person who read my essay must have been in a bad mood. My English teacher wrote in my recommendation that my writing is of the highest quality. And there was a short answer question on the OSU application that wanted to know what I think I do well, and I put writing. I also write for the newspaper, and I’ve won writing awards. Wow. Just wow.</p>

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<p>Life will go on. Most likely.</p>

<p>Getting in shape is hard work.</p>

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<p>That’s an easy question, Canadian.</p>

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<p>And I got a 6 on my act essay. Jesus Christ.</p>

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<p>I can’t come up with good examples outside of 1984.</p>

<p>I got an 11 on the SAT essay. Probably because length is all that matters. Stupid test.</p>

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<p>Six. SIX. Jesus Christ. I got a 33 on the English. SIX???!!!??? </p>

<p>What’s the sat essay out of?</p>

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<li>One of the graders gave me a 5 and the other gave me a 6. And my essay was literally the worst thing I’ve ever written in so many ways. It was poorly structured and poorly developed. I made grammatical mistakes I would never ever make under normal conditions. I incorrectly referenced Mean Girls. I wrote about Mean Girls.</li>
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<p>That makes me happy, Canadian. It is distracting me from my 6. My 6 OUT OF 12.</p>

<p>I don’t know what to do with myself.</p>

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<p>I’m going to post a link to my essay. Seriously, it was incredibly bad. Incredibly. And my handwriting only looks so illegible when I write with a non-mechanical pencil.</p>

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<p>Pssh. I only started answering my essay question halfway through. </p>

<p>Jesus. 6.</p>

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<p>The topic was “Do actions, not words, reveal a person or group’s true attitudes and intentions?”</p>

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<p>I got a 35 on English, and a 36 on Reading. Yet I end up with an 8 on the essay. BAAAHHHH!!! It must have been because it was sports-related. I can’t write about sports. I thought I’d convince them with stories about my brother, but I guess not. And my essay was fairly long, so it should have been good in that respect. I think I even wrote five paragraphs. Maybe it’s because I wrote it in cursive. I’m very proud of my handwriting, but I suppose there are people out there who don’t appreciate it quite as much.</p>

<p>The ACT essay was “Some people have raised concerns that high school athletics place too much emphasis on winning. Explain why you agree or disagree with this statement.” There was a lot more to it than that, since the prompt was a whole paragraph. So it forced me to take a position on sports, which I loathe. I should have written it instead about how I think high school sports should be abolished completely. Maybe I would have gotten a better score.</p>

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<p>Okay, rocker, I’m not going to lie. That’s a bad essay. I knew it when your thesis statement used the words “great example” as the main idea. Unfortunately, ACT essays are not posted online, so I can’t share mine.</p>

<p>Mean Girls??!!?!</p>

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<p>Sucky, sucky topic. 36 on reading! I got a 36 on reading! And 6! A 6! </p>

<p>My indignity knows no bounds.</p>

<p>Oh my God, Canadian. Oh my God.</p>

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<p>They must have had communists grading these essays. That’s the only explanation.</p>

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<p>No, I know, it’s an absolutely terrible essay.</p>

<p>Also, I’m considering writing it in the SAT forum and asking people to grade it. They’d all give me a 5 or a 6/12. Then I’ll make fun of the SAT for grading horribly.</p>

<p>Seriously, though, length is literally the only thing that counts on the SAT. I literally throw away everything I know about essays when I write for the SAT. You seriously can’t allow for any subtlety to make its way into your essay. Just state everything blatantly and have three paragraphs with what vaguely resemble introductions and conclusions and you’ll be fine.</p>