<p>Today my lit class went over PSAT questions to prep for the Oct. 16 PSAT (you need a certain PSAT score to stay in an honors class). </p>
<p>So when we were going over one of the vocab q's, my teacher asked the class, "How did you go about answering this question?" The answer to this problem was "misanthropic." Since I'm already the master of SAT vocab, I raise my hand and say, "Well mis- means not and I think of philanthropic when I hear -thropic, sooo..." since no one else knew what to say (freshman lit class). </p>
<p>Then everyone goes, "What's philanthropic mean" and I go "ya know, benevolent," and then everyone goes, "What's benevolent." I understand that most 9th graders don't know what these words mean, but damn, it's a friggin honors class ffs. Really irritating when I gotta dumb down my s***.</p>
<p>Next, the teacher asked "What's ambivalent mean" and I go "indifferent" and everyone is all like "How do you know this?" and I'm like, "Cause I learned it? Duh?"</p>
<p>TL;DR The SAT made me a really pretentious person. </p>
<p>Youre gnna learn that being cocky backfires a lot. Trust me, have the largest network possible. By having this attitude, youre gnna be one of those smart kids that is disliked by everyone.</p>
<p>I like to figure out words. If I didn’t know “philanthropic” I’d probably notice “anthro” and think of “anthropology” and that’s the study of humans, and “phil” means love because “philosophy” means “love of wisdom”…so a philanthropic person is someone who loves people.</p>
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<p>In college you’re probably going to have to ask people to dumb stuff down a lot, and hopefully it won’t irritate them. Don’t make fun of people for not knowing things…it won’t make them want to know things.</p>
<p>I mean I obviously didn’t SAY those cocky things in class, but I was thinking them. I’m generally a nice person and don’t say anything to p*** people off but i judge people a lot without saying anything.</p>
<p>Because top schools = intelligence. You really need to grow up out of that shell and learn to be a bit humble. Your obviously relatively intelligent, but having that type of attitude, even inside of yourself, will one day back fire, regardless of whether you go to the top schools or not. Be proud that you invested time into studying while others didn’t, and try to teach your classmates some your habits. Now to the question, I never cared for the SAT and I never will. So it didn’t really affect my life, but it did make me think about my future a little bit.</p>
<p>On an ACT I took a couple years ago there was this passage with the main character describing how he got started as a comedian, and there was this part where he said something along the lines of, “My jokes aren’t funny on paper, but Beethoven on paper is just a bunch of black circles.”
It’s stuck with me, but I can’t find it on Google or anything.</p>
<p>@halcyonheather - I tried looking it up to see if I could possibly find it for you and one of the first google results was an article titled “Was Beethoven African American?”</p>
<p>@halcyonheather - I think a lot of people assume that “black” and “African-American” are interchangeable because one sounds more politically correct. But they probably meant, “Was Beethoven black?” Either way, though, why would you think he was black? LOL.</p>