The Summer semester has started! Today, actually. And it started with a bang. Apparently because we're on a condensed schedule, we are going to make the very most of every single second, by the power of Greyskull.
I have a map test on Wednesday for my History class. I have to know where Chicago is, among other things.
I don't know where Chicago is, technically.
I have been to Chicago. I've actually driven to Chicago from my house. (Or, more accurately, from my friend Christy's house, which is in St. Louis. But I drove to St. Louis from my house. It's how I suddenly realized that St. Louis is sort of in the mountains, which I didn't know, despite having been there before.)
Do I get credit for having driven there? No, I do not. It's totally unfair. I can tell you how to get there from here, but I get no credit for that. I have to find it on a map.
I also have to name all fifty states, locate many major rivers, label all five Great Lakes and several other large cities in America, many of which I have also visited but couldn't possibly find on a map. Clearly, I have to study.
Here's what I don't have to study. I have to also find Canada, Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. I'm pretty confident in my ability, there.
Frankly, I'm just a bit shocked that there's a test so damned fast. Fortunately, it doesn't cover any material from the book, because I would just be screwed if it did, as I don't have the book. I have plans to get said book, but as of now, I don't have it. I'm pretty sure that this makes me a slacker.
The whole map test thing is actually pretty amusing to me, considering I haven't had one since my junior year in high school. It was a hard one, too. Which is why I still remember it. I don't think it scarred me for life, but I guess we won't know for sure until I take this new map test. If I have a panic attack and start thumping my head against the desk in the Testing Center, we'll know for sure, won't we.
A map test? Seriously? I have a sporadically recurring dream that involves a map test that I'm failing miserably (and in my dream, the test was given in law school, which makes no sense). I feel pretty sure I'd fail miserably in real life, too.
ReplyDeleteDid you get your grade on this test? (And if you did and I missed it, I blame my blowed-up computer for that.) Were you able to find Chicago?