<p>Gram, your ambiguous statement is confusing me. Still talking to el?</p>
<p>True, but the vast majority it seems (I could be wrong haha) on CC doesn’t have a social life. I mean, by all means to each their own but I can’t handle being with my parents when I don’t have to.</p>
<p>Aha me either. The day I bought a car was the best day of my life.</p>
<p>Haha I got lucky and my parents just let me use one of their cars. It’s not particularly nice but I didn’t pay for it, so I can’t complain.</p>
<p>Yeah, getting my driver’s license was probably the best day of my life.</p>
<p>Hey a car’s a car. I have an amazing VW. Best thing evveerrrr. But yeah I’m basically never home. I even study in libraries so it’s not at home aha.</p>
<p>It’s not necessarily that bad for me, I don’t have a job other than in the summers and I didn’t play baseball this year so I’ve been home a lot. Next year I’ll be playing three varsity sports though so I won’t be home much either haha.</p>
<p>I have two wonderful jobs and a paid internship. It’s good. I like earning money. Wish I could play varsity sports, I screwed up my knee in soccer freshman year.</p>
<p>Earning money is pretty much the only reason I do anything (most of what I do has some effect on college admissions, and therefore the quality of the college I go to, and therefore my (perceived) notion that a better college degree will yield a larger salary haha) so I definitely agree.</p>
<p>Money is good, but I’m more concerned about career satisfaction. I don’t like one of my jobs and it helped me realize how important it is to enjoy what I do.</p>
<p>Sorry to ruin your conversation guys but I need your assistance on an issue. I have realized that I blatantly suck on the verbal portion of the SAT. I’m pretty good at the reading comprehension and the math is a breeze. I really get tripped up on “how could this sentence be improved” and “how could this paragraphed be shortened to be more concise and clear” kind of questions. Also on the hard sentence completion questions, I mind as well them blank because I have no idea what some of those words mean. I’m guessing a lot of you have SAT scores over 2200. Is there anything you guys do to conquer these kinds of questions? Any hints/tips that I can use? I’m even considering hiring a tutor just for the SAT. </p>
<p>Thank you! :)</p>
<p>DON’T RUIN OUR MINDLESS CONVO.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Just kidding Nate. Welcome!</p>
<p>@kimmylouie: Thanks, and hello 
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<p>Does anyone think I should hire a tutor for the SAT?</p>
<p>Ask in the SAT forum. We don’t know!</p>
<p>@alwaysleah: Will do.</p>
<p>@Nate42 Doing well on any portion of the SAT’s you’re weak on is a matter of taking practice tests. Take an SAT writing practice test every day until the next test date. When you do so, go back and see where exactly you make your mistakes. SAT tutors are a waste of money. The SAT is something you can master with hours of work with the massive blue and green prep book college board publishes. </p>
<p>It’s late on a Saturday and I’m on CC!! whaddupp!
technically Sunday morning… who cares!</p>
<p>@iborpastan: Ahh, I see. I am taking it this coming Saturday. I have purchased the huge official SAT study guide from the College Board and it includes 10 practice tests. I will jump right on that tomorrow! Thank you! :)</p>
<p>I also made a thread on the “SAT Forum”
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/1345339-i-really-suck-verbal-portion-sat.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/1345339-i-really-suck-verbal-portion-sat.html</a></p>
<p>you mean the writing section? for some reason my brother/i were very deficient at the writing part without practice.</p>
<p>^ Yes, whichever you prefer. Same here! What did you do to improve? Just practice practice practice?</p>
<p>I find it extremely hard to improve once all of your scores at at mid 600 range. Seriously, it seems like one answer drops your score 40 points.</p>
<p>If you know your grammar and how to use the English language properly, you should be scoring pretty close to 700, if not higher. Check out a grammar book from your library or something.</p>