ISTEPstepstepping

"She is a very BAD kid!!"

My government teacher scrawled that ironically humorous phrase on the Comments section of my college visitation form with an evil glint in his eye. Apparently, he recently decided to test our administration's commitment to actually reading over the forms we turn in, and I unvoluntarily became one of his guinea pigs. I rolled my eyes and took my center seat as another one of my peers walked into the classroom, shaking his head at his own orange paper; he had just received an equally unsatisfactory review.

A good number of seniors decided to take college visitations this week as the rest of the school system focused on ISTEPs. After twelve dreadful years of mindnumbingly filling in bubble after bubble, we had finally satisfied the government's educational requirements and were relieved of our testing duties! While a mature reaction might have been to feel empathetic towards the poor unfortunate souls being forced through the various standardized units, we instead stooped to the lesser level of the point-and-laugh approach. It's quite fun. Not having to deal with ISTEPs is just one more advantage of being the top dogs, and we find it very necessary to exploit every opportunity to remind the underclassmen of that :)

As seniors without testing obligations, we're also allowed to leave early and arrive late. Our class schedules are very screwy: thus, the college visits. By taking them now, we avoid missing any major learning that might be happening in our absence (which in the case of my three AP classes would be very detrimental to my grades and health). Luckily, our classes are only 30 short minutes each tomorrow, so I doubt I will be missing much as I adventure around Northwestern's campus.