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I finally faced up to the SAT today. Well, not the real thing. College Board has a really nice SAT website with practice tests and the like. So after practice questions in each subject, I took the real practice test. I hesitated to share my result, but then thought, what the heck. It's not like I've bragged to be a genius or anything.

My first practice test score is 1820, as seen on the calculator in the pic. Or at least, that is the sum of the three test subjects? 660 in Reading, 690 in Writing, 470 in Math. Yes, 470. I know that is not good, however little I may know about the other scores. 

So... time for brushin' up on my sums. (So maybe Lark Rise to Candleford is rubbing off on me....) It was on my list of goals anyway. I shouldn't be so depressed about it - I was confident that I had absorbed very little applicable math skills in my algebra cramming sessions. I mean, I did remember some, thanks largely in part to Erin. I did get some questions right, and whatnot, but it just doesn't flow easily. So I'm going to practice more, but without the pressure of graduation being at stake.

How nice would it be to just easily solve mathematical problems? I love it when my brain works cohesively, when I can look at an algebra problem and go: hey, I know what to do with this. 

So that is what I did today, and it made me unreasonably mopey. But seeing as my cure-all is TV, Drop Dead Diva made me feel better. Hehe. I know, it's a silly show, but I can't help but like its supremely happy actors and general light-heartedness.

If you have any advice for me on taking the SAT or comments on my score and how high it should actually be, let me know. I'm pretty clueless. :P

Nighty night,

- caroline