I'm Not Stupid, I Swear

I just took my placement test for Behrend next year. The English was easy, but that math and chem...

Can you get thrown out just from your placement test scores? I haven't taken math in a year, and I've forgotten everything I've ever known about trig. I took chemistry two years ago. Two years is a lifetime! I think I got 2 questions right out of 20. I don't think there's a chem class low enough for me. Maybe they'll have to invent a new one. Chem -202. Take it back to tenth grade. At least I'm confident that I finally have basic algebra down. But I saw symbols that I have never seen in my life, and graphs going every which way. I didn't know there were so many letters in math.

I am so much looking foward to walking into my advising meeting. "Well Rachel, you can't handle anything we're teaching in the realm of math and science, but Prof So-and-So has volunteered to make you her special project. Make space in your weekends for some extra studying, and youll be up to speed in no time. Or at least by the time you graduate. Hopefully. Oh, and the FBI is going to cross-examine you for a bit, as your placement test scores are so incongruent with your SATs."

Why am I so lop-sided? Writing, reading, history, psych, politics, economics; I can handle those. A Shakespearean sonnet always ends in a rhyming couplet. Facsism is extreme conservatism, socialism is extreme liberalism. Not to be confused with communism, which is the socialist utopia, and has not yet been achieved. Freud was a crackpot, but he got other psychologists, like Jong, to study the unconscious. It was a combination of WW2 and Kensyian economics that pulled the USA out of the Great Depression. Which, technically, is the same thing as a recession, but no one likes the term "depression" because it makes everyone panic and sell their stocks, and then you have a real crash. But ask me the domain of g(f(x) and you've lost me completely.

My ego hurts.